Android hourglass

android, hourglass

Solution

You can use a `ProgressDialog`:

ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
dialog.setMessage("Thinking...");
dialog.setIndeterminate(true);
dialog.setCancelable(false);
dialog.show();

The above code will show the following dialog on top of your `Activity`:

Alternatively (or additionally) you can display a Progress indicator in the title bar of your `Activity`.

You need to request this as a feature near the top of the `onCreate()` method of your `Activity` using the following code:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);

Then turn it on like this:

setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);

and turn it off like this:

setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);

Problem

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