Книга: Beginning Android
Making Progress
Making Progress
If you need to be doing something for a long period of time, you owe it to your users to do two things:
• Use a background thread, which will be covered in Chapter 15
• Keep them apprised of your progress, or else they think your activity has wandered away and will never come back
The typical approach to keeping users informed of progress is some form of progress bar or “throbber” (think the animated graphic towards the upper-right corner of many Web browsers). Android supports this through the ProgressBar widget.
A ProgressBar keeps track of progress, defined as an integer, with 0 indicating no progress has been made. You can define the maximum end of the range — what value indicates progress is complete — via setMax(). By default, a ProgressBar starts with a progress of 0, though you can start from some other position via setProgress().
If you prefer your progress bar to be indeterminate, use setIndeterminate(), setting it to true.
In your Java code, you can either positively set the amount of progress that has been made (via setProgress()) or increment the progress from its current amount (via incrementProgressBy()). You can find out how much progress has been made via getProgress().
Since the ProgressBar is tied closely to the use of threads — a background thread doing work, updating the UI thread with new progress information — we will hold off demonstrating the use of ProgressBar until Chapter 15.
Оглавление книги
- Making the Choice
- Making the Switch
- 7.6.1 Making It a Product
- Making Directories with mkdir
- Making Good Use of Chains
- Making the Shared Assembly Visible in Visual Studio
- Making the Publisher Field Editable
- Displaying Progress Using the UpdateProgress Control
- Bootstrap Progress Bars
- ProgressEvent
- 1.25. Отображение протекания процессов с помощью UIProgressView
- progress