Loading Icon

Loading Icon Overview

For activities that take more than a few seconds, loading icons can be helpful to tell your app users that an activity is happening in the background, such as retrieving or uploading data.

The large loading icon is on the top; the small one is on the bottom on a Pixel 3

Properties

Loading Icon

Property	Description	Data Type
Color	The color of the Loading Icon	Color

Layout

Property	Description	Data Type
X	Location of top left corner of Loading Icon on X-axis, where the left hand side is X=0	Number
Y	Location of top left corner of Loading Iconon Y-axis, where the top side is Y=0	Number
Height	Height of Loading Icon in pixels	Number
Width	Width of Loading Icon in pixels	Number
Resize Mode	Define dimensions of the loading icon component/container	Select from list [Stretch, Float in Place]

Style

Property	Description	Data Type
Visible	Toggle whether your end users can see the Loading Icon	True/False
Border Style	Set whether border style is solid, dotted or dashed (only visible if border width > 0)	Select from list [solid, dotted, dashed]
Border Color	Color of border (only visible if border width > 0)	Color
Border Width	Width of border around Loading Icon in pixels	Number
Border Radius	Radius of corners of border on Loading Icon in degrees	Number
Shadow Color	Color of loading icon's shadow	Color
Shadow Opacity	Opacity of loading icon's shadow	Number between 0 and 100
Shadow Radius	Radius of corners of loading icon's shadow in pixels	Number
Shadow Offset	How far loading icon's shadow should be offset, in Height and Width, in pixels	Number

Blocks

Properties

Set and get properties of the Loading Icon component.

Color

Size

Select a size for the Loading Icon. Can choose between extra small, small, middle, large, or extra large.

Computed Height

Returns the height of the Loading Icon on the device screen in pixels.

Computed Width

Returns the width of the Loading Icon on the device screen in pixels.

Visible

Demo: Showing and Hiding the Loading Icon

The loading icon should be displayed when the app is performing an activity in the background and hidden when it is not.

One way to show and hide the icon is to use the visible property of the component.

In the following example the loading icon shows up when the app opens but disappears after data is retrieved from Airtable.

When the visibility is set to true, the loading icon will be seen on the app screen. If set to false, the loading icon will not be seen on the app screen.

See Also

If you want to show different styles of animations in your app as content loads, check out the Animation component.