I want a progress circle instead of progress dialog

Question

I want to show a progress Circle in my app while loading data. I have an activity and moving from one activity to another I am parsing some xml data so for the time being until the parsing is completed I want to show a circular loading effect.

Answer 1

You can use an indeterminate ProgressBar for the circular loading effect. Here is how you do it in XML:

<ProgressBar android:indeterminate="true"
            android:layout_width="50dp" android:layout_height="50dp"
            android:id="@+id/marker_progress" style="?android:attr/progressBarStyle"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"/>

You can change the height and width to be what you want. When you are done loading, you can change it's visibility to View.INVISIBLE or View.GONE

Answer 2

You need to create animation xml file in res/anim folder and call startAnimation in your ImageView when you are loading data and stopAnimation when you stop loading data. And set loading image to ImageView, for example:

This id code for circle animation xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rotate
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:fromDegrees="0"
    android:toDegrees="360"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="50%"
    android:repeatCount="infinite"
    android:duration="1200" 
    android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator" />