Android Update Ui

Basically at the moment I'm showing a loading screen (loading.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);) then loading some external data using a 'BufferedReader' and then hiding the loading scr

Solution 1:

You can't do this without using a background thread. There are a number of ways you can do this on Android, but the simplest is to use AsyncTask

It's worth reading Painless threading for more information on this.

Hope this helps,

Phil Lello

Solution 2:

I think, you should read about AsyncTask class in Android, then take a look this example: http://labs.makemachine.net/2010/05/android-asynctask-example/