android: showing a progress dialog

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Published on 2010-06-10T18:36:49Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 21:22 UTC
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I have looked at the Android API and other posts here on stackoverflow, but have not been able to figure this out.

My app downloads files to the sd card. I would like to pop a "loading..." dialog while the file is downloading and then have it disappear when the download is finished. This is what i came up with using the android API:

ProgressDialog pd = ProgressDialog.show(this,"","Loading. Please wait...",true);

//download file

pd.cancel();

however the dialog doesn't actually show. when i debug it, it claims that it is showing, but it is obviously not on the screen.

what can i do?

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