ProgressDialog does not show

ErinBearin

I am trying to get a ProgressDialog to show in my app, but it never shows up. I have tried multiple solutions, but none of them work. I was wondering if anyone had any working solutions or knew what I was doing wrong in my code? Thanks in advance for the help.

Basically, I am trying to upload user information to a database, and I have an asynchronous method to send the information and get a response. But I need to wait for the response because if the username is already in the database, the user needs to know. I am trying to use a progress dialog to help stop the code from continuing.

Here is the code I am currently working with:

Progress = ProgressDialog(this);
Progress.SetTitle("Please wait...");
Progress.SetMessage("Contacting server.");
Progress.Indeterminate = true;
Progress.SetProgressStyle(ProgressDialogStyle.Spinner);
Progress.Show();

Task.Run(async () => {
    await RemoteDB.AddOrUpdateUser(thisUser);
});

And then in my Remote Database class, I have an event which fires that closes the Progress Dialog with Progress.Dismiss();

I have also tried this solution:

Progress = new ProgressDialog(this);
Progress.SetTitle("Please wait...");
Progress.SetMessage("Contacting server.");
Progress.Indeterminate = true;
Progress.SetProgressStyle(ProgressDialogStyle.Spinner);
Progress.Show();

new Thread(new ThreadStart(async delegate {
    await RemoteDB.AddOrUpdateUser(thisUser);
})).Start();

And I have tried starting the ProgressDialog with this code too:

Progress = ProgressDialog.Show(this, "Please wait...", "Contacting server.", true, false);

Where true is for setting indeterminate and false is for setting cancelable.