How to change progress bar's progress color in

Question

I'm using an horizontal progress bar in my Android application, and I want to change its progress color (which is Yellow by default). How can I do it using code (not XML)?

Answer 1

This is an old question, but using theme is not mentioned here. If your default theme is using AppCompat, your ProgressBar's color will be colorAccent you have defined.

Changing colorAccent will also change your ProgressBar's color, but there changes also reflects at multiple places. So, if you want a different color just for a specific PregressBar you can do that by applying theme to that ProgressBar :

• Extend your default theme and override colorAccent

  <style name="AppTheme.WhiteAccent">
      <item name="colorAccent">@color/white</item> <!-- Whatever color you want-->
  </style>
  

• And in ProgressBar add the android:theme attribute:

  android:theme="@style/AppTheme.WhiteAccent"
  

So it will look something like this:

<ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/loading"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.WhiteAccent" />

So you are just changing a colorAccent for your particular ProgressBar.

Note: Using style will not work. You need to use android:theme only. You can find more use of theme here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/JXHKyhsWHAH

Answer 2

THis is what i did. Worked.

ProgressBar:

<ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/progressBar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="4"
            android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progressdrawable"
           />

---

progressdrawable.xml:
Here use gradient to change colour as you like. And android:toDegrees="X" increse the value of X and progressbar rotate fast. Decrease and it rotate slow.Customize according to your needs.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
     <rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
            android:duration="4000"
            android:fromDegrees="0"
            android:pivotX="50%"
            android:pivotY="50%"
            android:toDegrees="360" >

            <shape
                android:innerRadius="20dp"
                android:shape="ring"
                android:thickness="4dp"
                android:useLevel="false" >
                <size
                    android:height="48dp"
                    android:width="48dp" />

                <gradient
                    android:centerColor="#80ec7e2a"
                    android:centerY="0.5"
                    android:endColor="#ffec7e2a"
                    android:startColor="#00ec7e2a"
                    android:type="sweep"
                    android:useLevel="false" />
            </shape>

        </rotate>

---

sample:

Answer 3

Horizontal progress bar custom material style :

To change color of background and progress of horizontal progress bar.

<style name="MyProgressBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
    <item name="android:progressBackgroundTint">#69f0ae</item>
    <item name="android:progressTint">#b71c1c</item>
    <item name="android:minWidth">200dp</item>
</style>

Apply it to progress bar by setting style attribute, for custom material styles and custom progress bar check http://www.zoftino.com/android-progressbar-and-custom-progressbar-examples

Answer 4

For my indeterminate progressbar (spinner) I just set a color filter on the drawable. Works great and just one line.

Example where setting color to red:

ProgressBar spinner = new android.widget.ProgressBar(
                context,
                null,
                android.R.attr.progressBarStyle);

spinner.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(0xFFFF0000, android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

Answer 5

Nowadays in 2016 I found some pre-Lollipop devices don't honour the colorAccent setting, so my final solution for all APIs is now the following:

// fixes pre-Lollipop progressBar indeterminateDrawable tinting
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {

    Drawable wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(mProgressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable());
    DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), android.R.color.holo_green_light));
    mProgressBar.setIndeterminateDrawable(DrawableCompat.unwrap(wrapDrawable));
} else {
    mProgressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), android.R.color.holo_green_light), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
}

For bonus points, it doesn't use any deprecated code. Try it!

Answer 6

if Indeterminate:

((ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.progressBar))
    .getIndeterminateDrawable()
    .setColorFilter(Color.RED, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);