I am trying to put an indeterminate ProgressBar on the actionBar. I was using an actionView to put the progressBar like Google+ app for example.
<item android:id="@+id/menu_progress" android:actionLayout="@layout/action_progress" android:menuCategory="container" android:showAsAction="always"> </item>
the problem is that the progress bar is considered as an item and therefore on a Nexus S portrait mode I have only one other item on the actionbar while on Google+ I can see two items plus the progressBar. How is it possible to put a progressbar using the android actionbar?
First of all you have to create a custom menu to use inside your activity. Secondly, you have to request the feature of progress bar inside your "onCreate". PS: All the above code is working using the ActionBar Compat Library.
NOTE: The functionality below is now deprecated in the Support Library.
You need to call
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS)
in your onCreate()
before setting the activity's layout:
e.g.
@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS); ... // set layout etc
If you are using the support library replace requestWindowFeature with supportRequestWindowFeature
And then call
setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);
on your Activity whenever you want to show the progress spinner.
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