I have already made a horizontal progress bar and it works perfectly. I would like to display a textview or something similar right in the middle of it showing a countdown as the bar is loading. Keep in mind its not a progress dialog, progress bar resides inside an activity and shows a countdown timer. Can anyone help me out, whats the best way to do this and how can I accomplish this?
If your ProgressBar
and TextView
are inside a RelativeLayout
you can give the ProgressBar
an id, and then align the TextView
with the ProgressBar
using that. It should then show on top of the ProgressBar
. Make sure the background is transparent so that you can still see the ProgressBar
For example:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<ProgressBar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
// other attributes
android:id="@+id/PROGRESS_BAR"
>
<TextView
android:background="#00000000" // transparent
// other attributes
android:layout_alignLeft="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
android:layout_alignTop="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
android:layout_alignRight="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
android:layout_alignBottom="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
>
</RelativeLayout>