Basically, I need to detect when the progress changes in the SeekBar and draw a text view on top of the thumb indicating the progress value.
I do this by implementing a OnSeekBarChangeListener
and on the public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean b)
method, I call Rect thumbRect = seekBar.getThumb().getBounds();
to determine where the thumb is positioned.
This works perfectly fine, but apparently getThumb()
is only available in API level 16+ (Android 4.1), causing a NoSuchMethodError
on earlier versions.
Any idea how to work around this issue?
I was able to use my own class to get the Thumb:
MySeekBar.java
package mobi.sherif.seekbarthumbposition;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.SeekBar;
public class MySeekBar extends SeekBar {
public MySeekBar(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public MySeekBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public MySeekBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
Drawable mThumb;
@Override
public void setThumb(Drawable thumb) {
super.setThumb(thumb);
mThumb = thumb;
}
public Drawable getSeekBarThumb() {
return mThumb;
}
}
In the activity this works perfectly:
package mobi.sherif.seekbarthumbposition;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.SeekBar;
import android.widget.SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener;
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnSeekBarChangeListener {
MySeekBar mSeekBar;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
mSeekBar = (MySeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekbar);
mSeekBar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(this);
}
@Override
public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean b) {
Rect thumbRect = mSeekBar.getSeekBarThumb().getBounds();
Log.v("sherif", "(" + thumbRect.left + ", " + thumbRect.top + ", " + thumbRect.right + ", " + thumbRect.bottom + ")");
}
@Override
public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
}
Hopefully this can save some hours for someone else!
I created this method instead of a custom seekBar:
public int getSeekBarThumbPosX(SeekBar seekBar) {
int posX;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 16) {
posX = seekBar.getThumb().getBounds().centerX();
} else {
int left = seekBar.getLeft() + seekBar.getPaddingLeft();
int right = seekBar.getRight() - seekBar.getPaddingRight();
float width = (float) (seekBar.getProgress() * (right - left)) / seekBar.getMax();
posX = Math.round(width) + seekBar.getThumbOffset();
}
return posX;
}
A splendid solution! Thanks.
It's only nessesary to add that to use custom seekbar you need modify your xml
<com.example.MySeekBar
android:id="@+id/..."
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:minHeight="3dp"
android:maxHeight="3dp"
android:progressDrawable="@drawable/seek_bar_2"
android:thumb="@drawable/thumbler_seekbart_circle"
android:thumbOffset="8dp" />
android:thumbOffset="8dp" - is a HALF of a thumb it's better to spesify, thus there will be no mismatching of the text center and the thumb
Positioning can look like this:
int possition = (int) (seekBar.getX() //the beginning of the seekbar
+ seekBar.getThumbOffset() / 2 //the half of our thumb - the text to be above it's centre
+ ((MySeekBar) seekBar).getSeekBarThumb().getBounds().exactCenterX()); //position of a thumb inside the seek bar
@Sherif elKhatib's answer is great but has the disadvantage of caching a copy of the thumb even on API>=16.
I've improved it so that it only caches the Thumb Drawable
on API<=15 plus it overrides the method in SeekBar.java
to avoid having two methods do the same on API>=16. Only downside: It needs target SDK to be >= 16 which should be the case in most apps nowadays.
public class ThumbSeekBar extends AppCompatSeekBar {
private Drawable thumb;
public ThumbSeekBar(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public ThumbSeekBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public ThumbSeekBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
}
@Override
public Drawable getThumb() {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
return super.getThumb();
}
return thumb;
}
@Override
public void setThumb(Drawable thumb) {
super.setThumb(thumb);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
this.thumb = thumb;
}
}
}