Android ProgressBar styled like progress view in SwipeRefreshLayout

Question

I use android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout in my Android app. It wraps a ListView. The content of the list view is downloaded from a server.

Answer 1

However, I would like to show the same progress indication through the whole app. Consider e.g. another activity that looks like a form with submit button. There is neither a ListView nor a SwipeRefreshLayout in this form activity. Some progress indication should be displayed while the submitted data are transferred to the server. I want to show a progress bar with the same animation like in SwipeRefreshLayout.

yes you can use SwipeRefreshLayout to show like ProgressDialog when button click. check below.

i have added SwipeRefreshLayout inside my layout file still there is not ListView or ScrollView. just like below

now in my activity i used AsyncTask to show SwipeRefreshLayout. also use mSwipeRefreshLayout.setOnRefreshListener(null) to stop swipe gesture.

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mSwipeRefreshLayout = (SwipeRefreshLayout) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_swipe_refresh_layout);


        mSwipeRefreshLayout.setOnRefreshListener(null);

        ((Button) findViewById(R.id.button)).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // mSwipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(true);
                // call AsyncTask
                new LongOperation().execute("");
            }
        });

    }

    private class LongOperation extends AsyncTask {

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    Thread.interrupted();
                }
            }
            return "Executed";
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
            // stop mSwipeRefreshLayout
            mSwipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(false);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            // start mSwipeRefreshLayout
            mSwipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(true);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
        }
    }

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EDITED:15/02/20 After 4 year, Here is great explanation on android developer site