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)

Answer 2

One more little thing, the theme solution does work if you inherit a base theme, so for app compact your theme should be:

<style name="AppTheme.Custom" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/custom</item>
</style>

And then set this in the progress bar theme

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/progressCircle_progressBar"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.Custom"
    android:indeterminate="true"/>

Answer 3

The most simple way of changing the foreground and background colour of a progress bar is

<ProgressBar
                        style="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
                        android:id="@+id/pb_main"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="8dp"
                        android:progress="30"
                        android:progressTint="#82e9de"
                        android:progressBackgroundTint="#82e9de"
                        />

just add

                        android:progressTint="#82e9de" //for foreground colour
                        android:progressBackgroundTint="#82e9de" //for background colour

Answer 4

if Indeterminate:

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

Answer 5

To change horizontal ProgressBar color (in kotlin):

fun tintHorizontalProgress(progress: ProgressBar, @ColorInt color: Int = ContextCompat.getColor(progress.context, R.color.colorPrimary)){
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        progress.progressTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(color)
    } else{
        val layerDrawable = progress.progressDrawable as? LayerDrawable
        val progressDrawable = layerDrawable?.findDrawableByLayerId(android.R.id.progress)
        progressDrawable?.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP)
    }
}

To change indeterminate ProgressBar color:

fun tintIndeterminateProgress(progress: ProgressBar, @ColorInt color: Int = ContextCompat.getColor(progress.context, R.color.colorPrimary)){
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        progress.indeterminateTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(color)
    } else {
        (progress.indeterminateDrawable as? LayerDrawable)?.apply {
            if (numberOfLayers >= 2) {
                setId(0, android.R.id.progress)
                setId(1, android.R.id.secondaryProgress)
                val progressDrawable = findDrawableByLayerId(android.R.id.progress).mutate()
                progressDrawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP)
            }
        }
    }
}

And it finally normally tint pre-lollipop progressBars

Answer 6

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);