Setting progress icon inside the activity from BroadcastReceiver

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I'm using a BroadcastReceiver to check for new data on the server every 5 minutes. I would like to set a kind of progress icon in my MainActivity's action bar every time a check is performed - how do I do that from the BroadcastReceiver?

Essentially I just want to use the setBackgroundResource() but I don't know how to do that from my BroadcastReceiver.

Edit: I'm starting the alarm in activity other than the activity I would like to update the progress bar and the BroadcastReceiver is in the separate class.

u can do this by using runOnUIThread() method in broadcastreceiver. — Jarvis, Dec 23 '13 at 08:53
check [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14643385/how-to-update-ui-in-a-broadcastreceiver) — Infinite Recursion, Dec 23 '13 at 09:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Check this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9157874/3127335 You need to call setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true); in onReceive(Context c, Intent i) method. You can use Intent and put extra boolean value and use it as setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility argument. (You have to probably implement BroadcastReceiver in Activity).

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Dec 23 '13 at 09:15

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Setting progress icon inside the activity from BroadcastReceiver

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