Question

I setup ActionBarSherlock with my app, and I’m trying to use the Intermediate Progress, I’m using this:

    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);    
    setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);

In my onCreate, and then using:

    setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);

To enable it.

It works fine in ICS but it doesn’t work at all in Gingerbread or Froyo, does anyone know how to get it to work? Thanks

Answer 1

I just had the same problem. Jake’s solution above did not fix it for me – the method is undefined.

I found a working solution posted by Jake on the bug list for ActionBarSherlock here:

• Action Bar Indeterminate Progress Bar Not Disappearing

See Jake’s response to the poster – the trick is to call getSupportActionBar() first, to “trigger creation of the views”.

So my onCreate() method is:

protected void onCreate(Bundle arg0)
{
    super.onCreate(arg0);

    // allow window to show progress spinner in the action bar
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);
    getSupportActionBar();
    setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false); 
}

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Update based on comment from Laux:

Make sure your imports reflect com.actionbarsherlock.view.Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS for this to work.

Here is part of my import block from an app that uses this pattern:

import com.actionbarsherlock.app.ActionBar;
import com.actionbarsherlock.app.SherlockActivity;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.ActionProvider;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Window;
import com.actionbarsherlock.widget.ShareActionProvider;

This is a very good thing to remember when working with ABS – many of your normal Android imports should be updated to refer to ABS instead.

It may be a good idea to revisit your import block, or possibly remove it entirely and let Eclipse rebuild it for you (CTRL-SHIFT-O) to which point Eclipse will prompt you for each import that ABS redeclares.

This was also explained by Glebbb in his answer.