android-progress-spinner.md

title: Android progress spinner in Actionbar tags: android,android-progress

You can get a indeterminate progress bar like http://i.stack.imgur.com/CY4Ss.png in your window or Actionbar easily enough:

0. Inserting this before you set your view in onCreate: requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);

1. Enable and disabling it via setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    
        // Turn it on
        setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);
        // And when you want to turn it off
        setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);
    }
   

You can also use this in ActionbarSherlock via setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility and using ABS's Window class for the feature instead.