Android ProgressDialog Annoying errors

Question

I am building an application that uses GPS to determine users current country. Now, since GPS takes a while to find the location, while it is searching i want to show a ProgressDialog.

So inside my LocationListener, I called a ProgressDialog that i declared before called

pd

And right underneath the part where it shows i created a thread to do the GPS stuff. for some reason, the ProgressDialog isn't showing :/

Here is my code:

pd = ProgressDialog.show(TipCalculatorActivity.this, "", "Looking for GPS satellites...");
        new Thread() 
        {
          public void run() 
          {
             try
               {
                Geocoder geocoder = new Geocoder(TipCalculatorActivity.this, Locale.getDefault());
                List<Address> addresses;
                try {
                    addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(lat, lng, 1);
                    countryCode = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(2);
                }catch (IOException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    Toast.makeText(TipCalculatorActivity.this, "Location is not available, please try again later.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    finish();
                }
                if(countryCode==null){
                    Toast.makeText(TipCalculatorActivity.this, "Location is not available, please try again later.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    finish();
                }
                Toast.makeText(TipCalculatorActivity.this, countryCode, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

              }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Log.e("tag",e.getMessage());
            }
        // dismiss the progressdialog   
          pd.dismiss();
         }
        }.start();

What is wrong here?!

Thanks!

EDIT

My new code: Where i call the AsyncTask:

    LocationListener onLocationChange=new LocationListener() {
    public void onLocationChanged(Location loc) {
        //sets and displays the lat/long when a location is provided
        lat = loc.getLatitude();
        lng = loc.getLongitude();

        MyAsyncTask task = new MyAsyncTask(TipCalculatorActivity.this, lng, lat);
        task.execute();
        Toast.makeText(TipCalculatorActivity.this, "Done :D", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

    }

The AsyncTask:

public class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Result>{

private Activity activity;
private ProgressDialog progressDialog;

private double longitude;
private double latitude;
private String countryCode;

public MyAsyncTask(Activity activity, double longitude, double latitude) {
    super();
    this.activity = activity;
    this.longitude = longitude;
    this.latitude = latitude;
}

@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
    super.onPreExecute();
    ProgressDialog.show(activity, "", "Looking for GPS satellites...");
}

@Override
protected Result doInBackground(Void... v) {
    Geocoder geocoder = new Geocoder(activity, Locale.getDefault());
    List<Address> addresses;
    try {
        addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(latitude, longitude, 1);
        countryCode = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(2);
    }catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
        Toast.makeText(activity, "Location is not available, please try again later.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    if(countryCode==null){
        Toast.makeText(activity, "Location is not available, please try again later.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    Toast.makeText(activity, countryCode, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    return null;
}

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Result result) {
    progressDialog.dismiss();
    Toast.makeText(activity.getApplicationContext(), "Finished.", 
    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}

Answer 1

If I were you, I will use an AsyncTask for that :

public class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Result>{

                        private Activity activity;
                        private ProgressDialog progressDialog;

                        private long longitude;
                        private long latitute;

            public MyAsyncTask(Activity activity, Long longitude, Long latitude) {
                            super();
                this.activity = activity;
                this.longitude = longitude;
                this.latitude = latitude;
            }

            @Override
            protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
                progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(activity, "Loading", "Loading", true);
            }

            @Override
            protected Result doInBackground(Void... v) {
            //do your stuff here
            return null;

            }

            @Override
            protected void onPostExecute(Result result) {
                progressDialog.dismiss();
                Toast.makeText(activity.getApplicationContext(), "Finished.", 
                        Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }


}

Call it from the activity:

MyAsyncTask task = new AsyncTask(myActivity.this, lng, lat);
task.execute();