Replacing a static refresh button with SupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility when clicked

[Davy De Waele]

Hi,

I have a refresh menu item icon on my actionbar (from the ICS icon set) that I want to replace with a small indeterminateDrawable from the holo theme when it's clicked.

I've styled the IndeterminateProgress like this to use the smaller indeterminateDrawable than the default one  :

<style name="IndeterminateProgress" parent="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Small">
       <item name="android:indeterminateDrawable">@drawable/progress_small_holo</item>
</style>

When clicking on my refresh button, I call

setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true); 

This ensures that the small animating progress is shown in the actionbar alongside the refresh button. 

What I would like to do is to replace the refresh menu item icon with the indeterminateDrawable. What would be the best approach to do that ?

I'm currently just hiding the refresh menu item icon when it's clicked and calling 

setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true); 

Because the indeterminateDrawable is smaller than the refresh menu item icon, it's positioned too far to the right (next to another menu item), where I would want it to simply be positioned where the refresh menu item icon was. 

Is there an easy way to do that ?

[luciofm]

I have used an ActionView.

when i click in the refresh button, I call refreshMenu.setActionView(R.layout.refresh_progress);

when the refresh is finished I do a refreshMenu.setActionView(null);

Lúcio Maciel
luc...@gmail.com

[Alex Fu]

See this: http://alexfu.tumblr.com/post/19414506327/android-dev-animate-action-items

Although, it's not EXACTLY what you're asking, I think it's a bit better in terms of the user interface.

[Davy De Waele]

How do you handle the animation in this case ? The android:indeterminateDrawable causes the drawable to rotate. Using an actionView it just displays the drawable without animation.

On Monday, June 4, 2012 3:06:23 PM UTC+2, luciofm wrote:

I have used an ActionView.

when i click in the refresh button, I call refreshMenu.setActionView(R.layout.refresh_progress);

when the refresh is finished I do a refreshMenu.setActionView(null);

Lúcio Maciel
luc...@gmail.com

[Davy De Waele]

It does seem to require quite a bit of code :)

Also found another example in the google io app :

http://code.google.com/p/iosched/source/browse/android/src/com/google/android/apps/iosched/util/ActivityHelper.java

Going to give both a shot....