How not to affect the UI when executing an AsyncTask?

Issue

I have an issue, which is not that big, but to the user it is bad. The app basically gets the user’s input of some place and, when the user clicks on the button, a URL to the Google API with the place on its parameter is sent to an AsyncTask, where it sends this URL via HttpGet and is returned a JSONArray with everything needed. The problem is, when I click on the button and the internet is not that good, the button seems to “freeze” like this:

My activity code is below:

public class MainActivity extends Activity{

    ...

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){...}

    public void onResume()}

        btnSearch.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v){
                String search  txtSearch.getText().toString();

                try{
                    List<Location> locations  new SearchTask(MainActivity.this).execute(strSearch).get();

                    if(locations ! null){
                        ArrayAdapter<Location> adapter  new ArrayAdapter<Location>(MainActivity.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, locations);
                        listView.setAdapter(adapter);

                        ...

                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

My AsyncTask class code is below:

public class SearchTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, List<Location>>{

    ...

    protected List<Location> doInBackground(String... params){
        if(isNetworkAvailable()){
            HttpGet httpGet  null;
            HttpClient client  null;
            HttpResponse response  null;
            StringBuilder builder  null;

            try{
                String param  URLDecoder.decode(params[0], "UTF-8").replace(" ", "%20");
                httpGet  new HttpGet("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address" + param + "&sensorfalse");
                client  new DefaultHttpClient();
                builder  new StringBuilder();
            }
            catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e){
                Log.i("Error", e.getMessage());
            }

            try{
                response  client.execute(httpGet);
                HttpEntity entity  response.getEntity();
                InputStream stream  entity.getContent();
                BufferedReader br  new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8"));
                int val;

                while((val  br.read()) ! -1){
                    builder.append((char) val);
                }
            }
            catch(IOException e){
                Log.i("Error", e.getMessage());
            }

            JSONObject jsonObject  new JSONObject();

            List<Location> listLocation  new ArrayList<Location>();

            int countJson  0;

            try{
                jsonObject  new JSONObject(builder.toString());

                JSONArray jArray  jsonObject.getJSONArray("results");
                countJson  jArray.length();

                for(int i  0; i < countJson; i++){
                    Location location  new Location();

                    String formattedAddress  ((JSONArray) jsonObject.get("results")).getJSONObject(i).getString("formatted_address");

                    double lat  ((JSONArray) jsonObject.get("results")).getJSONObject(i).getJSONObject("geometry").getJSONObject("location").getDouble("lat");

                    double lng  ((JSONArray) jsonObject.get("results")).getJSONObject(i).getJSONObject("geometry").getJSONObject("location").getDouble("lng");

                    location.setFormattedAddress(formattedAddress);
                    location.setLat(lat);
                    location.setLng(lng);

                    listLocation.add(location);
                }
            }
            catch(JSONException e){
                Log.i("Error", e.getMessage());
            }

            return listLocation;
        }
        else{
            return null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute(){
        super.onPreExecute();

        progress  new ProgressDialog(context);
        progress.setMessage("Loading...");
        progress.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(List<Location> result){
        super.onPostExecute();

        progress.dismiss();
    }

    private boolean isNetworkAvailable(){
        ConnectivityManager connManager  (ConnectivityManager)context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo info  connManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
        return info ! null && info.isConnected();
    }
}

The ListView is on the same xml of the EditView and the Button.

Is there a way to improve it in order to make the UI not behave like this?

Thanks!

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Solution

Try this:

 btnSearch.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
     @Override
     public void onClick(View v){
         String search  txtSearch.getText().toString();     
         new SearchTask(MainActivity.this).execute(strSearch);
     }
 }

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(List<Location> locations){
    if(locations ! null){
        ArrayAdapter<Location> adapter  new ArrayAdapter<Location>(MainActivity.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, locations);
        listView.setAdapter(adapter);
    }
        progress.dismiss();
}

Answered By – Misagh Emamverdi