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Asked: 2026-05-25T00:04:41+00:00

I ran into an interesting situation with using a ProgressBar in an App Widget…

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I ran into an interesting situation with using a ProgressBar in an App Widget… The documentation (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html) says that ProgressBar is a supported widget class…

I have no problem getting the ProgressBar to display in my App Widget but the problem is that I want it to only be displayed as visual feedback to the user when background processing is happening.

On ImageViews I do this via RemoteViews.setViewVisibility() and everything works fine. However, with ProgressBar I get an exception saying that ProgressBar can’t use this method.

Is this intentional or is this a bug? Is there any way to workaround this problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    An even simpler idea, is to put the progress bar inside some container (say a linear layout) and show/hide the container.

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