ProgressBar disappeared in Android

Question

I have a somewhat big app with a bunch of progressBars (just regular indeterminate progress spinning wheels, no special styling) distributed througout the whole app.

Today I was developing some other stuff and realised the progress bars dont show anymore!!

I reverted to a previous version and the progress bar weren't there either! This version I have on the play Store and it does have the progress bar, so this is really weird.

The only thing I changed that I can think of is updating gradle plugin (and I cannot revert that now), could this be related somehow?

Answer 1

You probably disabled the animations since espresso instructs to do so. https://google.github.io/android-testing-support-library/docs/espresso/setup/index.html

Setup your test environment

To avoid flakiness, we highly recommend that you turn off system animations on the virtual or physical device(s) used for testing.

On your device, under Settings->Developer options disable the following 3 settings:
Window animation scale
Transition animation scale
Animator duration scale

Enable those again if you are not testing.