Android: EditText with Progress bar?

Question

I'm building a browser, and I have an address bar (as EditText) on top of the WebView. What I would like to do is to present the loading of the page graphically in the background of the EditText, much like in the iphone's browser. Is this possible?

Thanks

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UPDATE

So far I have tried the ClipDrawable approach. What I did was to take the stock drawable android.R.drawable.editbox_background and create 2 versions - a white background and a blue one (to show the progress). Then I would create a LayerDrawable like so:

 barDrawable = addressBar.getBackground();

    Drawable progress = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.editbox_progress);
    cbarDrawable = new ClipDrawable(progress, Gravity.LEFT, ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL);
    cbarDrawable.setLevel(0);

    layerlist = new LayerDrawable(new Drawable[] { barDrawable, cbarDrawable });

    addressBar.setBackgroundDrawable(layerlist);

and then I would call setLevel as the loading progresses. The problem now is that there are weird issues such as: the white drawable is too big or it moves to the top.

What do you think?

Answer 1

Take a look at this link, which talks about overriding ProgressBar's onDraw() method and drawing text over it. That should get you started at least.