Animationdrawable Is Not Playing In Actionbar?

I am using the developer guide (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/drawable-animation.html) to create a animating record button, Making minor changes to accomadate

Solution 1:

for me working call start() in next cycle

newHandler().post(newRunnable() {
    @Overridepublicvoidrun() {
        animationDrawable.start();
    }
});

Solution 2:

I had the same problem. I was able to get around it by using an action bar provider as described here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#ActionProvider

Skip the ShareActionProvider and create a custom one. This lets you use a custom layout for your action bar item (an ImageView in this case) that you can manipulate as described in your link to the Drawable Animation guide.

Solution 3:

I'm telling this for someone that might end up here: in my app I just tried changing an icon of a button of the ActionBar with an AnimationDrawable with the same method and it works.

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My AnimationDrawable ic_action_recording_active:

<animation-listxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:oneshot="false" ><itemandroid:drawable="@drawable/ic_action_recording_active0"android:duration="200" /><itemandroid:drawable="@drawable/ic_action_recording_active1"android:duration="200" /><itemandroid:drawable="@drawable/ic_action_recording_active2"android:duration="200" /></animation-list>

I call this method after pressing on the icon (I handle them in the onOptionsItemSelected):

publicvoidchangeMenuIcon(MenuItem item) {
    if (isRecording) {
        item.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_recording_active);
        AnimationDrawableicon= (AnimationDrawable) item.getIcon();
        icon.start();
    } else {
        item.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_recording);
    }
}

EDIT: I just saw that using icon.start() in the onCreateOptionsMenu doensn't actually start the animation...

I ended up calling changeMenuIcon in the onWindowFocusChanged