[android-developers] Re: Blocking current Activity/Screen till current task is complete

Is there any api which would wait there on the activity/screen till
there is a response from a server or the task is complete instead of
displaying ProgressDialog etc,,?

Thanks,
-DK

On May 13, 12:16 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I completely agree with TreKing.
>
> But sometimes bending the 'rules' (disallowing the user to go back
> when (s)he wants to) is permissible but you'd better have a very good
> reason :-)
>
> "... AlertDialog is being dismissed in reasonable amount of time ..."
> Reasonable means a few seconds, certainly no more than that.
>
> On May 13, 11:52 am, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:15 AM, dillipk <codersnet2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If some the same activity is waiting for some response from server or some
> > > data updation is going on and then press BACK, I want to wait on the same
> > > screen till the current task is completely processed and then move out to
> > > the previous activity.
>
> > On top of what SOB said, this is a bad idea - don't block the user from
> > doing anything, especially if it's going to take a long time. If I press
> > back while you're doing some long-running operation (presumably with a
> > progress dialog running) I expect that operation to cancel out - not to sit
> > there trying to finish what it started. If you ignore that and make me wait
> > or hit the Home screen to exit your ongoing process, you can be fairly
> > certain your app will not be installed for long...
>
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