add indeterminate horizontal progress to Action Bar

Question

I need to add a indeterminate horizontal progress to action bar. I try using:

setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);

but I get a spinning wheel progress widget and not a indefinite one horisntal. Thanks

Answer 1

Chris Banes made a great library "ActionBar-PullToRefresh" : https://github.com/chrisbanes/ActionBar-PullToRefresh

in which he add an other great library : SmoothProgressBar : https://github.com/castorflex/SmoothProgressBar

The ActionBar-PullToRefresh library allow you to add a horizontal indeterminate progress bar to your ActionBar.

You can either use this library or look at is implementation to do it yourself.

Answer 2

Instead of using requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_PROGRESS) try using requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS)

then enable with these:

setProgressBarIndeterminate(true);
setProgressBarVisibility(true);

I haven't tried it with the support class, but I guess it should work the same.