How to display a Dialog with progress spinner?

Question

How to display a AlertDialog with a progressbar spinner?

When a button is pressed i want it to block the UI until the data is finished loading displaying a spinner and a message and title.

i know i will need to use an asyncTask for this but how do i go about displaying the dialog with progressbar spinner?

Answer 1

This should be all you need

ProgressDialog progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(YourClassName.this, "", "Please wait");

Hope this helps