How to make a smaller RatingBar?

Question

I\'ve added a RatingBar in a layout:

Answer 1

The default RatingBar widget is sorta' lame.

The source makes reference to style "?android:attr/ratingBarStyleIndicator" in addition to the "?android:attr/ratingBarStyleSmall" that you're already familiar with. ratingBarStyleIndicator is slightly smaller but it's still pretty ugly and the comments note that these styles "don't support interaction".

You're probably better-off rolling your own. There's a decent-looking guide at http://kozyr.zydako.net/2010/05/23/pretty-ratingbar/ showing how to do this. (I haven't done it myself yet, but will be attempting in a day or so.)

Good luck!

p.s. Sorry, was going to post a link to the source for you to poke around in but I'm a new user and can't post more than 1 URL. If you dig your way through the source tree, it's located at frameworks/base/core/java/android/widget/RatingBar.java

Answer 2

use the following code for small rating bar with onTouch event

enter code here


<RatingBar
            android:id="@+id/ratingBar"
            style="?android:ratingBarStyleSmall"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:isIndicator="false"
            android:rating="4"
            android:stepSize="0.5" />

Answer 3

The Best Answer for small ratingbar

<RatingBar
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    style = "?android:attr/ratingBarStyleSmall"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Answer 4

I found an easier solution than I think given by the ones above and easier than rolling your own. I simply created a small rating bar, then added an onTouchListener to it. From there I compute the width of the click and determine the number of stars from that. Having used this several times, the only quirk I've found is that drawing of a small rating bar doesn't always turn out right in a table unless I enclose it in a LinearLayout (looks right in the editor, but not the device). Anyway, in my layout:

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
                <RatingBar
                    android:id="@+id/myRatingBar"
                    style="?android:attr/ratingBarStyleSmall"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:numStars="5" />
            </LinearLayout>

and within my activity:

    final RatingBar minimumRating = (RatingBar)findViewById(R.id.myRatingBar);
    minimumRating.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener()
    { 
        public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event)
        { 
            float touchPositionX = event.getX();
            float width = minimumRating.getWidth();
            float starsf = (touchPositionX / width) * 5.0f;
            int stars = (int)starsf + 1;
            minimumRating.setRating(stars);
            return true; 
        } 
    });

I hope this helps someone else. Definitely easier than drawing one's own (although I've found that also works, but I just wanted an easy use of stars).

Answer 5

The best answer I got

  <style name="MyRatingBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.RatingBar">
    <item name="android:minHeight">15dp</item>
    <item name="android:maxHeight">15dp</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/white</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/home_add</item>
</style>

user like this

<RatingBar
                style="?android:attr/ratingBarStyleIndicator"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:isIndicator="false"
                android:max="5"
                android:rating="3"
                android:scaleX=".8"
                android:scaleY=".8"
                android:theme="@style/MyRatingBar" />

Increase/Decrease sizes by using scaleX and scaleY value

Answer 6

Its working for me in rating bar xml style="?android:attr/ratingBarStyleSmall" add this.it will work.