Certain ProgressBar styles not shown on Nexus 5 Android 5.0.1

Question

I have the following layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ProgressBar
        style="@android:style/Widget.Material.ProgressBar.Large"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

</LinearLayout>

I have a Nexus 5 running Android 5.0.1 that doesn't display the ProgressBar, obviously because of the style. When I set the style for example to

 style="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Large"

or

 style="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ProgressBar.Large"

it is shown. I have an identical Nexus 5 also running Android 5.0.1 which displays all the ProgressBars fine. Enabling the 'draw layout borders' option in the developers options, it shows that the ProgressBar is included in the layout, it is simply not shown.

This seems very strange, any idea on what could be going on here?

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i have a nexus 4 running android 5.0.1 and it's working fine.. perhaps your ota update is borked? try reflashing the device using factory images? — eriuzo, Dec 22 '14 at 08:34

score 30 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '15 at 20:33

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I was having the same issue but was because the developer phone have animations scales to 0 (all 3).

Enable all the animations on the device and maybe you will be able to see the progress bar, so for normal people that will have animations enabled the progress bar will appear fine.

answered Dec 02 '15 at 20:33

Daniel Gomez Rico

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Thanks .. Forgot to reset animations in "Developer options" after espresso tests :) – sha Jul 13 '16 at 23:28
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I also had to kill and restart the app, before the progress bar started to show up. – friederbluemle Oct 19 '16 at 15:35

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '15 at 13:07

In my case, it looks as if the issue is with build LRX22G:

Nexus 7 using Build LRX22G (android-5.0.2_r1) - progress bar not shown

Nexus 5 using Build LRX22C (android-5.0.1_r1) - progress bar shown

See https://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html

It's probably also related with https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=77865

Not being able to wait for a fix, what I've decided to do is to force the Holo progress bar to be used in my Material theme. This is how it was achieved - it may be of some use to you in the meantime:

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar">

    <!-- Build LRX22G (5.0.2 Nexus 7) fails to display progress bar so we'll use Holo instead of Material -->
    <!-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27567235/certain-progressbar-styles-not-shown-on-nexus-5-android-5-0-1 -->
    <item name="android:progressBarStyleSmall">@style/MaterialProgressBarFix.Small</item>
    <item name="android:progressBarStyle">@style/MaterialProgressBarFix</item>
    <item name="android:progressBarStyleLarge">@style/MaterialProgressBarFix.Large</item>
</style>

<style name="MaterialProgressBarFix.Small" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ProgressBar.Small" />
<style name="MaterialProgressBarFix"       parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ProgressBar" />
<style name="MaterialProgressBarFix.Large" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ProgressBar.Large" />

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 29 '14 at 12:00

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By setting the style to the following instead you should be able to debug this issue

style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"

answered Dec 29 '14 at 12:00

Mostafa Gazar

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Good idea. Oddly enough, this isn't displayed either. – fweigl Dec 30 '14 at 10:29
I guess that means it is not picking the theme – Mostafa Gazar Dec 30 '14 at 10:31
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I'm having exactly the same problem - using style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge is fine on 5.0.1 Nexus 5 but is invisible on my 2012 Nexus 7 5.0.2 – Rhisiart Feb 20 '15 at 19:07

Certain ProgressBar styles not shown on Nexus 5 Android 5.0.1

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