Suggestions - showing file upload progress to user?
<p>Does anyone have a recommendation on how to visually show progress of uploading a large file to a web server? My app needs to upload one photo at a time, as directed by the user. Images are about 200kb.</p>

<p>I don't want to put up a progress dialog and block the user from further interaction while the upload is in progress. Looks like I can:</p>

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<li>Have a service upload the photo, and post status updates to the notification bar.</li>
<li>Upload through service (or bg thread), but post status updates to some in-app notification indicator.</li>
</ol>

<p>I'm wondering if #1 is more standard, I like the idea of putting off updates to the notifcation bar so it's separated from my main app. I don't really want to build some global upload widget that has to be displayed on each activity my user navigates to.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>
