Android: How to Create a Modal Progress "Wheel" Overlay?

Question

I would like to show a modal progress "wheel" overlay on my view.

The ProgressDialog comes close, but I do not want the dialog background or border.

I tried setting the background drawable of the dialog window:

this.progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(Main.this);

this.progressDialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(0));
this.progressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
this.progressDialog.setCancelable(false);
this.progressDialog.setIndeterminate(true);

this.progressDialog.show();

but to no avail (i.e. still looks the same as without the ...setBackgroundDrawable code).

Answer 1

Have you checked out this tutorial? At the end of the page it talks about how to create a custom dialog, and that might help you put a spinner progress dialog box with your own backgrounds.