Smooth Progress Bar Animation

Question

I'm trying to implement a smooth animation for my ProgressBar, but when I increase the time (30 seconds), the animation is no longer smooth.

Example with 5 seconds:

Example with 30 seconds:

My progress background:

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape>
            <padding android:top="1dp" />
            <solid android:color="#10444444" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item>
        <shape>
            <padding android:top="1dp" />
            <solid android:color="#20444444" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item>
        <shape>
            <padding android:top="1dp" />
            <solid android:color="#30444444" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:id="@android:id/background">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="@color/black_thirty" />
        </shape>
    </item>

    <item android:id="@android:id/progress">
        <clip>
            <shape>
                <solid android:color="#3500D0" />
            </shape>
        </clip>
    </item>
</layer-list> 

My progress layout:

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/pb_loading"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="8dp"
    android:indeterminate="false"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:progress="100"
    android:progressDrawable="@drawable/my_progress_bar" />

My animation method:

private void startAnimation(){
    ProgressBar mProgressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.pb_loading);
    ObjectAnimator progressAnimator = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(mProgressBar, "progress", 100, 0);
    progressAnimator.setDuration(30000);
    progressAnimator.setInterpolator(new LinearInterpolator());
    progressAnimator.start();
}

Answer 1

You can make custom clas like this :

public class CustomProgressBar extends ProgressBar {
private static final long DEFAULT_DELAY = 500;
private static final long DEFAULT_DURATION = 1000;

public CustomProgressBar(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

public CustomProgressBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
}

public CustomProgressBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
}

public synchronized void setProgress(float progress) {
    super.setProgress((int) progress);
}

@Override
public synchronized void setProgress(int progress) {
    super.setProgress(progress);
}

public void startLcpProgressAnim(int progressTo) {
   startLcpProgressAnim(DEFAULT_DELAY, progressTo);
}

public void startLcpProgressAnim(long delay, int progressTo) {
   startLcpProgressAnim(DEFAULT_DURATION, delay, progressTo);
}

public void startLcpProgressAnim(long duration, long delay, float progressTo) {
    ObjectAnimator animation = ObjectAnimator.
            ofFloat(this, "progress",
                    (float)this.getProgress(), progressTo);
    animation.setDuration(duration);
    animation.setStartDelay(delay);
    animation.start();
}
}

Answer 2

If you change progress value each time by 1 (for example from 45 to 46) you won't see the animation. You'd better change progress by 100 points (or maybe other), for this you just need to multiply your max value by 100 and each progress value to 100 too. For example:

    private void setProgressMax(ProgressBar pb, int max) {
        pb.setMax(max * 100);
    }

    private void setProgressAnimate(ProgressBar pb, int progressTo) 
    {
        ObjectAnimator animation = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(pb, "progress", pb.getProgress(), progressTo * 100);
        animation.setDuration(500);
        animation.setInterpolator(new DecelerateInterpolator());
        animation.start();
    }

Answer 3

here is snippet for my countdown timer using smooth animation you can modify as per your need please follow below :

private void setProgressBarValues() {
        progressBarCircle.setMax((int) (timeCountInMilliSeconds / 10));
        progressBarCircle.setProgress((int) (timeCountInMilliSeconds / 10));
        Log.e("progres", "" + (timeCountInMilliSeconds / 10));
    }

private void startCountDownTimer() {

        smoothAnimation = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(progressBarCircle, "progress", progressBarCircle.getProgress(), progressBarCircle.getMax());
        smoothAnimation.setDuration(500);
        smoothAnimation.setInterpolator(new AccelerateInterpolator());

        countDownTimer = new CountDownTimer(timeCountInMilliSeconds, 10) {
            @Override
            public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {

                Log.e("getMax", "" + progressBarCircle.getMax());
                Log.e("getprogres", "" + progressBarCircle.getProgress());
                textViewTime.setText(hmsTimeFormatter(millisUntilFinished));
                progressBarCircle.setProgress((int) (timeCountInMilliSeconds / 10 - millisUntilFinished / 10));
            }

            @Override
            public void onFinish() {

                textViewTime.setText(hmsTimeFormatter(timeCountInMilliSeconds));
                // call to initialize the progress bar values
                setProgressBarValues();
                // hiding the reset icon
                buttonReset.setEnabled(false);
                // making edit text editable
                editTextMinute.setEnabled(true);
                // changing the timer status to stopped
                status = TimerStatus.STOPPED;
                smoothAnimation.end();
            }

        }.start();
        smoothAnimation.start();
        countDownTimer.start();
    }

Summary:

1. setMax and setProgress

2. setAnimation to show from progess to max values of progressbar

3. create a timer with call back of ~10 millisec

4. update progress in onTick i.e total - finished

Answer 4

Because you are using ofInt you can only move at full integers. In other words, if you have a progress bar with a width of 1000 and a progress of 0 to 100 since you are moving at an integer pace you count 1, 2, 3, 4 which translates to 10px, 20px, 30px and 40px. Which explains the jaggedness you are seeing.

To correct this you have a few options. The first is to up your integers from 0 to someBigInt This will give the animator more numbers to work with.

ObjectAnimator progressAnimator = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(mProgressBar, "progress", 10000, 0);

The other option is to use ofFloat which does the same thing as ofInt but uses floating points instead of integers.

ObjectAnimator progressAnimator = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(mProgressBar, "progress", 100.0, 0.0);

Answer 5

Just set android:max="1000" and do ObjectAnimator progressAnimator = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(mProgressBar, "progress", 1000, 0);

in this case you will animate on 1/1000 by each step which in 10 time smoothly when default 100 percent scale. and it looks much better

Answer 6

You can not use the ofFloat because the ProgressBar's progress attribute doesn't accept float values, only integer ones. That is why your ProgressBar stopped progressing after going with that solution.

As the others have said it, the correct way to do what you want is to set android:max to some big integer.

Sorry for reviving the thread but I feel like this had to be said.