how to show the progress bar before playing the video

Question

i want to show the progress dialog before playing video. i tried below link example for playing video.

http://davanum.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/android-%E2%80%93-videomusic-player-sample-take-2/

it works but it takes more time to take for playing video so i want to show a progress dialog before start the video. so please tel me how to show the progress dialog before playing the video.

Thank you.

Best Regards.

Answer 1

First, declare the progress dialog

private static ProgressDialog progressDialog;

Then, in onCreate, before calling runOnUiThread, start the dialog

progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(this, "", "Loading...", true);

In playVideo, set a OnPreparedListener that will dismiss the dialog when the video is ready to play

mVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {

    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer arg0) {
        progressDialog.dismiss();
        mVideoView.start();
    }
});