Delay after pressing a button

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After I press a button, Android parse a JSON file and pick the info it needs. Until yesterday, I was using an external library created by a user and it worked perfectly. But now, I don't want to depend on him, so I've searching info about Google's GSON. I've implemented this library with no problem, but now, after pressing the button that opens a new activity there's a delay.

This delay is due to the connection and parsing that are done before the activity shows.

How can I force the app to wait the Internet connection until de Activity is shown? It's a lil bit uncomfortable because after pressing the button, it seems that the app has frozen, but after all data is loaded, the new activity appears.

Thank you in advance!

Try using AsyncTask in your activity and tranfer all operation into background showing a dialog to user until everything is loaded and appears to user. — Hiral Vadodaria, Mar 28 '12 at 12:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '12 at 12:25

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Use AsyncTask or Handler for network operations. Do never put "long time" operations into the UI thread

answered Mar 28 '12 at 12:25

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Sorry but sandy replied before you. Thank you anyway! :) – anonymous Mar 28 '12 at 12:47
Actually I answered first. To be accurate 2mins -_-. But thats not a problem :) – 207 Mar 28 '12 at 12:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 12:27

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Use asyncTask.. and if server communication is a success then show the new Activity or else exit..

answered Mar 28 '12 at 12:27

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You replied first so, you get the accepted answer. Working like a charm! :D – anonymous Mar 28 '12 at 12:47
I'm sorry but I wanna be fair, @207 replied before – anonymous Mar 28 '12 at 13:21

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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it is possibl;e via Handler and AsyncTask see this How to set delay in Android onClick function you will get how to use Handler and see this for Asynctask https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7644567/need-a-simple-example-for-android-asynctask

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Mar 28 '12 at 12:43

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Delay after pressing a button

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