Download a file with Android, and showing the progress in a ProgressDialog

Yes the code above will work .But if you are updating your progressbar in onProgressUpdate of Asynctask and you press back button or finish your activity AsyncTask looses its track with your UI .And when you go back to your activity, even if download is running in background you will see no update on progressbar. So on OnResume() try to run a thread like runOnUIThread with a timer task that updates ur progressbar with values updating from the AsyncTask running background.

private void updateProgressBar(){
    Runnable runnable = new updateProgress();
    background = new Thread(runnable);
    background.start();
}

public class updateProgress implements Runnable {
    public void run() {
        while(Thread.currentThread()==background)
            //while (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(1000); 
                Message msg = new Message();
                progress = getProgressPercentage();        
                handler.sendMessage(msg);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
            } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }
}

private Handler handler = new Handler(){
    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
        progress.setProgress(msg.what);
    }
};

Don't forget to Destroy the thread when ur activity is not visible.

private void destroyRunningThreads() {
    if (background != null) {
        background.interrupt();
        background=null;
    }
}