how to display progress dialog while installing sqllite database in android?
<p>I am trying to display a progress dialog when the app runs for the first time since it installs database and takes a while to do that because of the DB size.  Here is the ListAcitity that I am using:
    package samples.employeedirectory;</p>

<pre><code>import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.ListAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;

public class EmployeeList extends ListActivity {

protected SQLiteDatabase db;
protected Cursor cursor;
protected ListAdapter adapter;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    new progressBar().execute();
    db = (new DatabaseHelper(this)).getWritableDatabase();
    cursor = db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM employeeList", new String[]{});

    adapter = new qCursorAdapter(this, cursor);

    // requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
     getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
                             WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

    setListAdapter(adapter);

}

public void onListItemClick(ListView parent, View view, int position, long id) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(this, displayEmployee.class);
    Cursor cursor = (Cursor) adapter.getItem(position);
    intent.putExtra("eID", cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex("eID")));
    startActivity(intent);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.pref:
            // Launch Preference activity
            Intent intent = new Intent(this, Preferences.class);
            startActivity(intent);
         break;
    }
    return true;
}
</code></pre>

<p>}</p>

<p>I realized then that I can't display progress bar before the activity starts. What is the best approach to achieve this?</p>

<p>Edit:
Using this code:</p>

<pre><code>package samples.employeedirectory;

import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.os.AsyncTask;

public class progressBar extends AsyncTask&lt;String, Void, String&gt; {
protected Context context;
protected SQLiteDatabase db;
protected ProgressDialog dialog;
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
    db = (new DatabaseHelper(context)).getWritableDatabase();
    return null;
}

/* (non-Javadoc)
 * @see android.os.AsyncTask#onPostExecute(java.lang.Object)
 */
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onPostExecute(result);
    dialog.dismiss();
}

/* (non-Javadoc)
 * @see android.os.AsyncTask#onPreExecute()
 */
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
    // super.onPreExecute();
dialog = ProgressDialog.show(context, "",
            "Please wait for few seconds...", true);
}

/* (non-Javadoc)
 * @see android.os.AsyncTask#onProgressUpdate(Progress[])
 */
@Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onProgressUpdate(values);
}
</code></pre>

<p>}</p>

<p>I received these errors:</p>

<pre><code>    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{samples.employeedirectory/samples.employeedirectory.EmployeeList}: java.lang.NullPointerException
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1659)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1675)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:121)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:943)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3701)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:862)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:620)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.Dialog.&lt;init&gt;(Dialog.java:141)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.AlertDialog.&lt;init&gt;(AlertDialog.java:67)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ProgressDialog.&lt;init&gt;(ProgressDialog.java:80)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ProgressDialog.&lt;init&gt;(ProgressDialog.java:76)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ProgressDialog.show(ProgressDialog.java:101)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ProgressDialog.show(ProgressDialog.java:90)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at samples.employeedirectory.progressBar.onPreExecute(progressBar.java:34)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.os.AsyncTask.execute(AsyncTask.java:391)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at samples.employeedirectory.EmployeeList.onCreate(EmployeeList.java:27)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
    08-15 23:21:26.743: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5170):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1623)
</code></pre>
