Monday, August 31, 2015

How to create a ProgressBar programmatically in Android

activity_main.xml 

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/rl"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:padding="10dp"
    tools:context=".MainActivity"
    android:background="#d6e6de"
    >
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Create ProgressBar"
        />
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn_start"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Start Operation"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@id/btn"
        />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/btn_start"
        />
</RelativeLayout>
MainActivity.java 

package com.cfsuman.me.androidcodesnippets;

import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout.LayoutParams;


public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private int progressStatus = 0;
    private Handler handler = new Handler();
    ProgressBar pb;

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

        // Get the widgets reference from XML layout
        final RelativeLayout rl = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.rl);
        final Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn);
        final Button btn_start = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_start);
        final TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);

        btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                //ProgressBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr)
                // Initialize a new Progressbar instance
                // Create a new progress bar programmatically
                pb = new ProgressBar(getApplicationContext(), null, android.R.attr.progressBarStyleHorizontal);

                // Create new layout parameters for progress bar
                LayoutParams lp = new LayoutParams(
                        550, // Width in pixels
                        LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT // Height of progress bar
                );

                // Apply the layout parameters for progress bar
                pb.setLayoutParams(lp);

                // Get the progress bar layout parameters
                LayoutParams params = (LayoutParams) pb.getLayoutParams();

                // Set a layout position rule for progress bar
                params.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, tv.getId());

                // Apply the layout rule for progress bar
                pb.setLayoutParams(params);

                // Set the progress bar color
                pb.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(Color.BLUE, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);

                // Finally,  add the progress bar to layout
                rl.addView(pb);
            }
        });

        btn_start.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                // Set the progress status zero on each button click
                progressStatus = 0;
                // Start the lengthy operation in a background thread
                new Thread(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        while(progressStatus < 100){
                            // Update the progress status
                            progressStatus +=1;

                            // Try to sleep the thread for 20 milliseconds
                            try{
                                Thread.sleep(20);
                            }catch(InterruptedException e){
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }

                            // Update the progress bar
                            handler.post(new Runnable() {
                                @Override
                                public void run() {
                                    pb.setProgress(progressStatus);
                                    // Show the progress on TextView
                                    tv.setText(progressStatus+"");
                                }
                            });
                        }
                    }
                }).start(); // Start the operation
           }
        });
    }
}



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