With the new Lollipop API, we have to use a Toolbar if we want to personalize the action bar aspect.
Adding a ProgressBar to the Toolbar is as simple as adding it to the Toolbar ViewGroup, as Chris Banes said.
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@color/material_green_500"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<!-- Color is Brown 500 -->
<ProgressBar
android:id="@+id/toolbar_progress_bar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminateTint="#795548"
android:indeterminateTintMode="src_in"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
But how can we place it at the right of the Toolbar, where it belongs?
The layout_gravity
attribute seems to not be defined for the Toolbar. Setting it from the xml has no effect.
I tried to change the width of the ProgressBar, with no success.
What do I do?
EDIT: There is a programmatical solution to this problem, see @mdelolmo reply for that.
You can try this. It worked for me. Key here is to define layout_gravity
in the xml: android:layout_gravity="right"
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@color/material_green_500"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<!-- Color is Brown 500 -->
<ProgressBar
android:id="@+id/toolbar_progress_bar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminateTint="#795548"
android:indeterminateTintMode="src_in"
android:layout_gravity="right"
/>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>