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[CircularProgressIndicator] Indicator is invisible when animations are off
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Description
**Description:** When the animations on the device are off, then an indeterminate `CircularProgressIndicator` is completely invisible
**Expected behavior:** There is a non-animated version of the progress visible
**Android API version:** API 28, probably all of them though
**Material Library version:** 1.3.0
Here's how the system `ProgressBar` (API 28) looks like when the animations are off, this is not animating:

here's how `CircularProgressIndicator` looks like with animations off:

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Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. First reproduce the invisible indeterminate CircularProgressIndicator with device animations disabled on Android API 28, then compare it with the system ProgressBar behavior; done means a non-animated progress indicator remains visible.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100