ProgressDialog created from onCreateDialog stops animating on second run

Question

I create a ProgressDialog in onCreateDialog() like so:

protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
  if (id == DIALOG_PROGRESS_ID)
  {
      ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
      dialog.setMessage(getResources().getString(R.string.MyLabel));
      dialog.setCancelable(false);
      dialog.setIndeterminate(true);
      return dialog;
  }
}

Android, in its wisdom (or serious lack of it) decides to cache every dialog created through onCreateDialog(). Because of that, any subsequent call to showDialog(DIALOG_PROGRESS_ID) results in the same ProgressDialog instance being used but the animation has stopped working.

I've tried to re-set indeterminate in onPrepareDialog(), but that doesn't do anything. There is likewise no obvious method to call on the dialog instance that will reset the animation.

protected void onPrepareDialog(int id, Dialog dialog)
{
  //This doesn't do anything
  if (id == DIALOG_PROGRESS_ID)
     ((ProgressDialog)dialog).setIndeterminate(true);
  super.onPrepareDialog(id, dialog);
}

EDIT: But maybe there is a way to get the ProgressBar itself and start it animating? so I tried the following after I asked this question:

@Override
protected void onPrepareDialog(int id, Dialog dialog)
{
  if (id == DIALOG_PROGRESS_ID)
  {
     ProgressBar p = (ProgressBar) dialog.findViewById(android.R.id.progress);
     if (p.getAnimation() != null)
        p.startAnimation(p.getAnimation());
  }
  super.onPrepareDialog(id, dialog);

}

But it didn't work either!

So, does anyone know if there is a way to restart animation on a ProgressDialog? If not, is there a way that I can force every showDialog() call to call onCreateDialog()? (this second question was answered by @TuomasR, but after pondering it I don't think this is a very good solution to my problem)

Answer 1

Well, a not-so-cool workaround would to edit the parameters and not declaring the int private as in the examples. Of course, you lose the ability to switch on onCreateDialog, but you don't seem to be doing that anyway:

showDialog(++DIALOG_PROGRESS_ID);

Of course if the dialog is shown numerous times, you could have memory errors. Not pretty, but should work.