How to Create a circular progressbar in Android wh

Question

I am trying to create a rounded progressbar. This is what I want to achieve

There is a grey color background ring. On top of it, a blue color progressbar appears which moves in a circular path from 0 to 360 in 60 or whatever amount of seconds.

Here is my example code.

<ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/ProgressBar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
            android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progressBarBG"
            android:progress="50"
            />

To do this, in the drawable "progressBarBG", I am creating a layerlist and inside that layer list I am giving two items as shown.

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@android:id/background">
    <shape
            android:shape="ring"
            android:innerRadius="64dp"
            android:thickness="8dp"
            android:useLevel="false">

        <solid android:color="@color/grey" />
    </shape>
</item>

<item android:id="@android:id/progress">
    <clip>
        <shape
                android:shape="ring"
                android:innerRadius="64dp"
                android:thickness="8dp"
                android:useLevel="false">

            <solid android:color="@color/blue" />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>

Now, the first grey ring is generated fine. The blue ring however starts from the left of the drawable and goes to the right just like how a linear progressbar works. This is how it shows at 50% progress with the red color arrow showing direction.

I want to move the blue progressbar in circular path as expected.

Answer 1

I'm new so I can't comment but thought to share the lazy fix. I use Pedram's original approach as well, and just ran into the same Lollipop issue. But alanv over in another post had a one line fix. Its some kind of bug or oversight in API21. Literally just add android:useLevel="true" to your circle progress xml. Pedram's new approach is still the proper fix, but I just thought I share the lazy fix as well.

Answer 2

@Pedram, your old solution works actually fine in lollipop too (and better than new one since it's usable everywhere, including in remote views) just change your circular_progress_bar.xml code to this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:fromDegrees="270"
    android:toDegrees="270">
    <shape
        android:innerRadiusRatio="2.5"
        android:shape="ring"
        android:thickness="1dp"
        android:useLevel="true"> <!-- Just add this line -->
        <gradient
            android:angle="0"
            android:endColor="#007DD6"
            android:startColor="#007DD6"
            android:type="sweep"
            android:useLevel="false" />
    </shape>
</rotate>

Answer 3

package com.example.ankitrajpoot.myapplication;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;


public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private ProgressBar spinner;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        spinner=(ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.progressBar);
        spinner.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }
}

xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/loadingPanel"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center">

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/progressBar"

    android:layout_width="48dp"
    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
    android:layout_height="48dp"
    android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/circular_progress_bar"
    android:indeterminate="true" />
</RelativeLayout>





<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rotate
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="50%"
    android:fromDegrees="0"
    android:toDegrees="1080">
    <shape
        android:shape="ring"
        android:innerRadiusRatio="3"
        android:thicknessRatio="8"
        android:useLevel="false">

        <size
            android:width="56dip"
            android:height="56dip" />

        <gradient
            android:type="sweep"
            android:useLevel="false"
            android:startColor="@android:color/transparent"
            android:endColor="#1e9dff"
            android:angle="0"
            />

    </shape>
</rotate>

Answer 4

Change

android:useLevel="false"

to

android:useLevel="true"

for second sahpe with id="@android:id/progress

hope it works

Answer 5

https://github.com/passsy/android-HoloCircularProgressBar is one example of a library that does this. As Tenfour04 stated, it will have to be somewhat custom, in that this is not supported directly out of the box. If this library doesn't behave as you wish, you can fork it and modify the details to make it work to your liking. If you implement something that others can then reuse, you could even submit a pull request to get that merged back in!

Answer 6

Here are my two solutions.

Short answer:

Instead of creating a layer-list, I separated it in two files. One for ProgressBar and one for its background.

This is the ProgressDrawable file (@drawable folder): circular_progress_bar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:fromDegrees="270"
    android:toDegrees="270">
    <shape
        android:innerRadiusRatio="2.5"
        android:shape="ring"
        android:thickness="1dp"
        android:useLevel="true"><!-- this line fixes the issue for lollipop api 21 -->

        <gradient
            android:angle="0"
            android:endColor="#007DD6"
            android:startColor="#007DD6"
            android:type="sweep"
            android:useLevel="false" />
    </shape>
</rotate>

And this is for its background(@drawable folder): circle_shape.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="ring"
    android:innerRadiusRatio="2.5"
    android:thickness="1dp"
    android:useLevel="false">

    <solid android:color="#CCC" />

</shape>

And at the End, inside the layout that you're working:

<ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar"
        android:layout_width="200dp"
        android:layout_height="200dp"
        android:indeterminate="false"
        android:progressDrawable="@drawable/circular_progress_bar"
        android:background="@drawable/circle_shape"
        style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
        android:max="100"
        android:progress="65" />

Here's the result:

Long Answer:

Use custom view which inherits of a class android.view.View

Here is the full project on github