AsyncTask with Progress Bar in Android

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CLASS OVERVIEW

AsyncTask enables proper and easy use of the UI thread. This class allows to perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread without having to manipulate threads and/or handlers.

AsyncTask is designed to be a helper class around Thread and Handler and does not constitute a generic threading framework. AsyncTasks should ideally be used for short operations (a few seconds at the most.) If you need to keep threads running for long periods of time, it is highly recommended you use the various APIs provided by the java.util.concurrent pacakge such as Executor, ThreadPoolExecutor and FutureTask.

An asynchronous task is defined by a computation that runs on a background thread and whose result is published on the UI thread. An asynchronous task is defined by 3 generic types, called Params, Progress and Result, and 4 steps, called onPreExecute, doInBackground,onProgressUpdate and onPostExecute.

                                  

                                 

THE 4 STEPS

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When an asynchronous task is executed, the task goes through 4 steps:

1. onPreExecute(), invoked on the UI thread before the task is executed. This step is normally used to setup the task, for instance by showing a progress bar in the user interface.
2. doInBackground(Params...), invoked on the background thread immediately after onPreExecute() finishes executing. This step is used to perform background computation that can take a long time. The parameters of the asynchronous task are passed to this step. The result of the computation must be returned by this step and will be passed back to the last step. This step can also use publishProgress(Progress...) to publish one or more units of progress. These values are published on the UI thread, in the onProgressUpdate(Progress...) step.
3. onProgressUpdate(Progress...), invoked on the UI thread after a call to publishProgress(Progress...). The timing of the execution is undefined. This method is used to display any form of progress in the user interface while the background computation is still executing. For instance, it can be used to animate a progress bar or show logs in a text field.
4. onPostExecute(Result), invoked on the UI thread after the background computation finishes. The result of the background computation is passed to this step as a parameter.

here our example 

MainActivity.java

package com.itdeveloper.asynctask;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.AsyncTask;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.os.SystemClock;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.ProgressBar;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

       ProgressBar progressBar;

       Button StartProgressBtn;

       /** Called when the activity is first created. */

       @Override

       public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

              super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

              setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

              StartProgressBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.startprogress);

              progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressbar_Horizontal);

              StartProgressBtn.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {

                     @Override

                     public void onClick(View v) {

                           new BackgroundAsyncTask().execute();

                           /**

                            * just disable button click so user wont be able to click again

                            * and again till task end

                            */

                           StartProgressBtn.setClickable(false);

                     }

              });

       }

       public class BackgroundAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {

              int myProgressCount;

              @Override

              protected void onPreExecute() {

                     Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,

                                  "onPreExecute Start Progress Bar", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)

                                  .show();

                     progressBar.setProgress(0);

                     myProgressCount = 0;

              }

              @Override

              protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {

                     // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                     while (myProgressCount < 100) {

                           myProgressCount++;

                           /**

                            * Runs on the UI thread after publishProgress(Progress...) is

                            * invoked. The specified values are the values passed to

                            * publishProgress(Progress...).

                            *

                            * Parameters values The values indicating progress.

                            */

                           publishProgress(myProgressCount);

                           SystemClock.sleep(100);

                     }

                     return null;

              }

              /**

               * This method can be invoked from doInBackground(Params...) to publish

               * updates on the UI thread while the background computation is still

               * running. Each call to this method will trigger the execution of

               * onProgressUpdate(Progress...) on the UI thread.

               *

               * onProgressUpdate(Progress...) will not be called if the task has been

               * canceled.

               *

               * Parameters values The progress values to update the UI with.

               */

              @Override

              protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... values) {

                     // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                     progressBar.setProgress(values[0]);

              }

              @Override

              protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {

                     Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "onPostExecute End Progress Bar",

                                  Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

                     /**

                      * enable Button back so user can click again

                      */

                     StartProgressBtn.setClickable(true);

              }

       }

}

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <ProgressBar

        android:id="@+id/progressbar_Horizontal"

        style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_marginTop="40dp"

        android:max="100" />

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/startprogress"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_marginTop="40dp"

        android:text="Start Progress bar" />

</LinearLayout>

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.itdeveloper.asynctask"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk

        android:minSdkVersion="8"

        android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

    <application

        android:allowBackup="true"

        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

        android:label="@string/app_name"

        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <activity

            android:name="com.itdeveloper.asynctask.MainActivity"

            android:label="@string/app_name" >

            <intent-filter>

                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

    </application>

</manifest>