ProgressDialog is deprecated.What is the alternate one to use?

You can simply design an xml interface for your progressbar and pass it as a view to a AlertDialog, then show or dismiss the dialog anytime you want.

progress.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:padding="13dp"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/loader"
        android:layout_marginEnd="5dp"
        android:layout_width="45dp"
        android:layout_height="45dp" />
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:text="Loading..."
        android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceSmall"
        android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
        android:id="@+id/loading_msg"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/loader"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

The code code that displays the progress dialog. Just copy this code and paste it your fragment.

Dialog dialog;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);


        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        builder.setView(R.layout.progress);
        // This should be called once in your Fragment's onViewCreated() or in Activity onCreate() method to avoid dialog duplicates.
        dialog = builder.create();
    }
    
//   This method is used to control the progress dialog.
      private void setDialog(boolean show){
               if (show)dialog.show();
                    else dialog.dismiss();
           }

Then just call the method whenever you want to show the progressdialog and pass true as an argument to show it or false to dismiss the dialog.

ProgressBar is very simple and easy to use, i am intending to make this same as simple progress dialog. first step is that you can make xml layout of the dialog that you want to show, let say we name this layout

layout_loading_dialog.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:padding="20dp">
    <ProgressBar
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="4"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="Please wait! This may take a moment." />
</LinearLayout>

next step is create AlertDialog which will show this layout with ProgressBar

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
builder.setCancelable(false); // if you want user to wait for some process to finish,
builder.setView(R.layout.layout_loading_dialog);
AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();

now all that is left is to show and hide this dialog in our click events like this

dialog.show(); // to show this dialog
dialog.dismiss(); // to hide this dialog

and thats it, it should work, as you can see it is farely simple and easy to implement ProgressBar instead of ProgressDialog. now you can show/dismiss this dialog box in either Handler or ASyncTask, its up to your need

You don't need to import any custom library.

I prefer to use the modern AlertDialog so this is the Kotlin version for the great answer posted by Kishan Donga in this page.

Kotlin code:

fun setProgressDialog(context:Context, message:String):AlertDialog {
    val llPadding = 30
    val ll = LinearLayout(context)
    ll.orientation = LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL
    ll.setPadding(llPadding, llPadding, llPadding, llPadding)
    ll.gravity = Gravity.CENTER
    var llParam = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
                  LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                  LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
    llParam.gravity = Gravity.CENTER
    ll.layoutParams = llParam

    val progressBar = ProgressBar(context)
    progressBar.isIndeterminate = true
    progressBar.setPadding(0, 0, llPadding, 0)
    progressBar.layoutParams = llParam

    llParam = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                        ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
    llParam.gravity = Gravity.CENTER
    val tvText = TextView(context)
    tvText.text = message
    tvText.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000"))
    tvText.textSize = 20.toFloat()
    tvText.layoutParams = llParam

    ll.addView(progressBar)
    ll.addView(tvText)

    val builder = AlertDialog.Builder(context)
    builder.setCancelable(true)
    builder.setView(ll)

    val dialog = builder.create()
    val window = dialog.window
    if (window != null) {
        val layoutParams = WindowManager.LayoutParams()
        layoutParams.copyFrom(dialog.window?.attributes)
        layoutParams.width = LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT
        layoutParams.height = LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT
                dialog.window?.attributes = layoutParams
    }
    return dialog
}

Usage:

val dialog = setProgressDialog(this, "Loading..")
dialog.show()

Output:

ProgressDialog was deprecated in API level 26 .

"Deprecated" refers to functions or elements that are in the process of being replaced by newer ones.

ProgressDialog is a modal dialog, which prevents the user from interacting with the app. Instead of using this class, you should use a progress indicator like ProgressBar, which can be embedded in your app's UI.

Advantage

I would personally say that ProgressBar has the edge over the two .ProgressBar is a user interface element that indicates the progress of an operation. Display progress bars to a user in a non-interruptive way. Show the progress bar in your app's user interface.

Use this simple trick

//initialize

val dialog : Dialog = Dialog(this)

//set layout

dialog.setContentView(R.layout.view_loading)

//show dialog

dialog.show()

// remove white background

dialog.window.setbackgroundDrawable(ColorDrawable(0))

Here is my kotlin version of the ProgressDialog class suggested by @Han

class ProgressDialog(context: Context) : Dialog(context) {
init {
    val view = View.inflate(context, R.layout.progress_dialog, null)
    setContentView(view)
    setCancelable(false)
    window?.setBackgroundDrawable(
        ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT)
    )
}

}

In the progress dialog, user cannot do any kind of work. All the background processes are stopped during progress dialog. So, It is advisable to user progress-bar instead of progress dialog.

Here my version for an indeterminate progress dialog:

layout_loading_dialog.xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:padding="20dp">

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginEnd="10dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="4"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:textAlignment="textStart"
        android:id="@+id/message"
        tools:text="Please wait..." />
</LinearLayout>

IndeterminateProgressDialog.kt:

class IndeterminateProgressDialog(context: Context) : AlertDialog(context) {
    private val messageTextView: TextView

    init {
        val view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.layout_loading_dialog, null)
        messageTextView = view.findViewById(R.id.message)
        setView(view)
    }

    override fun setMessage(message: CharSequence?) {
        this.messageTextView.text = message.toString()
    }

}

Usage:

   val dialog = IndeterminateProgressDialog(context)
                    dialog.setMessage("Please wait...")
                    dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false)
                    dialog.setCancelable(false)
                    dialog.show()

create a xml file with progress-bar and other view and inflate your derived Dialog class view with this xml file or Alertdialog derived class. Which have been provided in other solution with detailed. But if you want a go to solution or existed lib. i found these two.

1. https://github.com/Livin21/MissMe

2. https://github.com/skydoves/ProgressView

These are just perfect and two the point as per need.

You can use SpotDialog by using the library wasabeef you can find the complete tutorial from the following link:

SpotsDialog Example in Android