Those dark spinning progr开发者_StackOverflow社区ess dialogs in the Amazon and Engadget apps - are those standard in Android?

It's a ProgressDialog, with setIndeterminate(true).

From http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html#ProgressDialog

ProgressDialog dialog = ProgressDialog.show(MyActivity.this, "", 
                    "Loading. Please wait...", true);

An indeterminate progress bar doesn't actually show a bar, it shows a spinning activity circle thing. I'm sure you know what I mean :)

Today things have changed a little.

Now we avoid use ProgressDialog to show spinning progress:

If you want to put in your app a spinning progress you should use an Activity indicators:

http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/progress.html#activity

Update

Thay have renamed the component to Progress Indicators now.

The new link for reference is: https://material.io/components/progress-indicators/android