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Create an animated Instagram-like progress bar with Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose is the new and trending way to build Android UI.
At BAM, we use it on all new projects. On older projects, we make a plan to refactor good old XML to Composable.

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Recreating Instagram's stories progress bar

Do you know Instagram stories ? They are a slideshow of full screen mobile pictures. Here is an example :

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Instagram story (from @themonkeyuser)

We will try to recode the progress bar like this :

target

Our Jetpack Compose Stories !

Specs are :

  • we are given a number of steps (number);
  • we are given the current step index (number);
  • we are given whether to pause the progression or not (boolean);
  • we would like to be able to do something when we reach the end of a step (a callback);

The layout of one progress bar

We will use a ++code>Row++/code> with a background for the progress bar background.
And a ++code>Box++/code> for the progress bar foreground.

++pre>++code class="has-line-data" data-line-start="32" data-line-end="50">@Preview(widthDp = 200)
@Composable
fun ProgressBarPreview() {
   Row(
       modifier = Modifier
           .height(4.dp)
           .clip(RoundedCornerShape(50, 50, 50, 50)) // (1)
           .background(Color.White.copy(alpha = 0.4f)) // (2)
   ) {
       Box(
           modifier = Modifier
               .background(Color.White)
               .fillMaxHeight()
               .fillMaxWidth(0.5f), // (3)
       ) {}
   }
}
++/code>++/pre>

  1. Creates rounded corner. Order of ++code>Modifier++/code> is important. Here, ++code>clip++/code> is applied on top of ++code>background++/code>.
  2. Adds the white translucent background.
  3. Fill a percentage of the width.

Result :

progressBar

The layout of multiple progress bar

We need to iterate over an index.

++pre>++code class="has-line-data" data-line-start="64" data-line-end="101">@Preview(widthDp = 600)
@Composable
fun InstagramSlicedProgressBar(
   steps: Int = 3,
   currentStep: Int = 2
) {
   Row(
       verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
       modifier = Modifier
           .height(48.dp)
           .padding(24.dp, 0.dp),
       ) {
       for (index in 1..steps) { // (1)
           // We use our previous code :
           Row(
               ...
           ) {
               Box(
                   modifier = Modifier
                       ...
                       .fillMaxHeight().let {
                           // Here we check if we need to fill the progress bar of not :
                           when (index) { // (2)
                               currentStep -> it.fillMaxWidth(.5f)
                               in 0..currentStep -> it.fillMaxWidth(1f)
                               else -> it
                           }
                       },
               ) {}
           }
           if (index != steps) {
               Spacer(modifier = Modifier.width(4.dp)) // (3)
           }
       }
   }
}
++/code>++/pre>

  1. We iterate over a range from 1 to the given steps number.
  2. Before current step, we fill the progress bar; at the current step, we fill a fraction; after, we do nothing.
  3. We insert a ++code>Spacer++/code> between each progress bar.

Result :

slicedProgressBar

Animation and pause

We will need a ++code>LaunchedEffect++/code> :

++pre>++code class="has-line-data" data-line-start="116" data-line-end="157">@Preview(widthDp = 600)
@Composable
fun InstagramSlicedProgressBar(
   steps: Int = 3,
   currentStep: Int = 2,
   paused: Boolean = false,
   onFinished: () -> Unit = {}
) {
   val percent = remember { Animatable(0f) } // (1)
   LaunchedEffect(paused) { // (2)
       if (paused) percent.stop()
       else {
           percent.animateTo(
               targetValue = 1f,
               animationSpec = tween(
                   durationMillis = (5000 * (1f - percent.value)).toInt(), // (3)
                   easing = LinearEasing
               )
           )
           onFinished() // (4)
       }
   }
   Row(...) {
       for (...) {
           Row(...) {
               Box(
                   modifier = Modifier
                       ...
                       .fillMaxHeight().let {
                           when (index) {
                               currentStep -> it.fillMaxWidth(percent.value) // (5)
                               ...
                           }
                       },
               ) {}
           }
           ...
       }
   }
}
++/code>++/pre>

  1. Creates an animated value that the composable will remember across recompositions.
  2. Every time ++code>paused++/code> changes, launch the effect in a coroutine.
  3. Animate from the current value to 100% with the following spec.It should take 5 seconds to go from 0 to 100%
  4. Calls the ++code>onFinished++/code> callback once animation is done.
  5. Use our animated value current value to fill current step.

Tadaaa ?
We are done with our progress bar !

 

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