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Android Material Progress Indicator
A quick look at the new material library component for showing progress to the user
In one of my last articles, I already talked about the new MaterialTimePicker component that just got released with the new Android material library version 1.3.0.
But the MaterialTickePicker was not the only new component that has been included in this update. We also got the new ProgressIndicator that we want to talk about in this article.
The Progress Indicator
This component has been included as one of the material design guidelines a long time ago. Unfortunately, a proper implementation with the mentioned material style never had been published for Android.
Therefore you always had to stick to the Androids’ native ProgressBar and use it with various styles (or another external library) to imitate the material style. Especially the Indeterminate loading style was always quite difficult to implement to look exactly like the guidelines with the native component. But now the official ProgressIndicatormaterial component comes to the rescue and finally lets us properly implement the proposed guidelines.
