How to change progress bar's progress color in Android

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

Answer 1

Hit the same problem while working on modifying the look/feel of the default progress bar. Here is some more info that will hopefully help people :)

• The name of the xml file must only contain characters: a-z0-9_. (ie. no capitals!)
• To reference your "drawable" it is R.drawable.filename
• To override the default look, you use myProgressBar.setProgressDrawable(...), however you need can't just refer to your custom layout as R.drawable.filename, you need to retrieve it as a Drawable:

  Resources res = getResources();
  myProgressBar.setProgressDrawable(res.getDrawable(R.drawable.filename);
  

• You need to set style before setting progress/secondary progress/max (setting it afterwards for me resulted in an 'empty' progress bar)