ProgressBar under Action Bar

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Question Summary: How can I make a ProgressBar integrated inside the ActionBar, like on the Chrome App?

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Answer 1

Well , I did something similar for one of my pet apps and am not sure if that's the only way or the best way to do it , but it definitely works.

To begin with , use an overlay action bar and then set the background drawable to "null" so that the overlay action bar is transparent.

Now in you activity layout , set the top margin for your root view to "actionbar height" You can do it like this.

Now the action is not going to hide any of your activity content.

The next thing you have to do now is - add a header view on top of your root view with height same as the action bar. Set a background color to it. This would now be the color of your action bar and since the action bar aligns perfectly on top pf this header view.

Now you can easily put a progress bar in the header view and align it to the bottom of the header view. To the user this would look as if the progress bar is on the action bar itself , just like chrome ..