Hello everyone…
Today we will see how to customize an indeterminate progressBar in android.
For that we have to create an xml with a progress animation.For this I used these three images
Inside the folder res/drawable create an xml named “progress_indeterminate_horizontal.xml” and copy this code into it
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<animation-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:oneshot="false">
<item android:drawable="@drawable/p1" android:duration="200" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/p2" android:duration="200" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/p3" android:duration="200" />
</animation-list>
Now the layout file containing the progressBar.I named it main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello"
/>
<ProgressBar
android:id="@+id/progress_bar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="20dip"
android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progress_indeterminate_horizontal"
/>
</LinearLayout>
See the line
android:indeterminateDrawable=”@drawable/progress_indeterminate_horizontal”
where I have added the xml as drawable.
Done. Now goon and run the project. Nothing needs to be done in the java code. Enjoy.
Custom Indeterminate progressBar
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Here is another one for creating custom progressbars.