Show a ProgressBar in Android

This post is explaining the Progress Bar creation in android application

You can create a progress bar using the ProgressDialog

ProgressDialog dialog = ProgressDialog.show(MyActivity.this, "Title Here",
                "Progress Message Here", true);

This will show the following progress bar.

to change the progress style use the following method

dialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);

to cancel the dialog you can use the dialog.dismiss() or dialog.cancel() methods.