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

This worked for me :

<ProgressBar
 android:indeterminateTint="#d60909"
 ... />

Answer 2

As per muhammad-adil suggested for SDK ver 21 and above

android:indeterminateTint="@color/orange"

in XML Works for me, is easy enough.

Answer 3

I'm sorry that it's not the answer, but what's driving the requirement setting it from code ? And .setProgressDrawable should work if it's defined correctly

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<item android:id="@android:id/background">
    <shape>
        <corners android:radius="5dip" />
        <gradient
                android:startColor="#ff9d9e9d"
                android:centerColor="#ff5a5d5a"
                android:centerY="0.75"
                android:endColor="#ff747674"
                android:angle="270"
        />
    </shape>
</item>

<item android:id="@android:id/secondaryProgress">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <corners android:radius="5dip" />
            <gradient
                    android:startColor="#80ffd300"
                    android:centerColor="#80ffb600"
                    android:centerY="0.75"
                    android:endColor="#a0ffcb00"
                    android:angle="270"
            />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>

<item android:id="@android:id/progress">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <corners
                android:radius="5dip" />
            <gradient
                android:startColor="@color/progress_start"
                android:endColor="@color/progress_end"
                android:angle="270" 
            />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>

</layer-list>

Answer 4

This is not programmatically but I think it could help a lot of people anyway.
I tried a lot and the most efficient way was to add this lines to my ProgressBar in the .xml File:

            android:indeterminate="true"
            android:indeterminateTintMode="src_atop"
            android:indeterminateTint="@color/secondary"

So in the end this code did it for me:

<ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/progressBar"
            style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
            android:layout_marginBottom="50dp"
            android:visibility="visible"
            android:indeterminate="true"
            android:indeterminateTintMode="src_atop"
            android:indeterminateTint="@color/secondary">

This solution works for API 21+

Answer 5

For a horizontal ProgressBar, you can use a ColorFilter, too, like this:

progressBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(
    Color.RED, android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);

Note: This modifies the appearance of all progress bars in your app. To only modify one specific progress bar, do this:

Drawable progressDrawable = progressBar.getProgressDrawable().mutate();
progressDrawable.setColorFilter(Color.RED, android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
progressBar.setProgressDrawable(progressDrawable);

If progressBar is indeterminate then use getIndeterminateDrawable() instead of getProgressDrawable().

Since Lollipop (API 21) you can set a progress tint:

progressBar.setProgressTintList(ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.RED));

Answer 6

For a horizontal style ProgressBar I use:

import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.ClipDrawable;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.LayerDrawable;

public void setColours(ProgressBar progressBar,
                        int bgCol1, int bgCol2, 
                        int fg1Col1, int fg1Col2, int value1,
                        int fg2Col1, int fg2Col2, int value2)
  {
    //If solid colours are required for an element, then set
    //that elements Col1 param s the same as its Col2 param
    //(eg fg1Col1 == fg1Col2).

    //fgGradDirection and/or bgGradDirection could be parameters
    //if you require other gradient directions eg LEFT_RIGHT.

    GradientDrawable.Orientation fgGradDirection
        = GradientDrawable.Orientation.TOP_BOTTOM;
    GradientDrawable.Orientation bgGradDirection
        = GradientDrawable.Orientation.TOP_BOTTOM;

    //Background
    GradientDrawable bgGradDrawable = new GradientDrawable(
            bgGradDirection, new int[]{bgCol1, bgCol2});
    bgGradDrawable.setShape(GradientDrawable.RECTANGLE);
    bgGradDrawable.setCornerRadius(5);
    ClipDrawable bgclip = new ClipDrawable(
            bgGradDrawable, Gravity.LEFT, ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL);     
    bgclip.setLevel(10000);

    //SecondaryProgress
    GradientDrawable fg2GradDrawable = new GradientDrawable(
            fgGradDirection, new int[]{fg2Col1, fg2Col2});
    fg2GradDrawable.setShape(GradientDrawable.RECTANGLE);
    fg2GradDrawable.setCornerRadius(5);
    ClipDrawable fg2clip = new ClipDrawable(
            fg2GradDrawable, Gravity.LEFT, ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL);        

    //Progress
    GradientDrawable fg1GradDrawable = new GradientDrawable(
            fgGradDirection, new int[]{fg1Col1, fg1Col2});
    fg1GradDrawable.setShape(GradientDrawable.RECTANGLE);
    fg1GradDrawable.setCornerRadius(5);
    ClipDrawable fg1clip = new ClipDrawable(
            fg1GradDrawable, Gravity.LEFT, ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL);        

    //Setup LayerDrawable and assign to progressBar
    Drawable[] progressDrawables = {bgclip, fg2clip, fg1clip};
    LayerDrawable progressLayerDrawable = new LayerDrawable(progressDrawables);     
    progressLayerDrawable.setId(0, android.R.id.background);
    progressLayerDrawable.setId(1, android.R.id.secondaryProgress);
    progressLayerDrawable.setId(2, android.R.id.progress);

    //Copy the existing ProgressDrawable bounds to the new one.
    Rect bounds = progressBar.getProgressDrawable().getBounds();
    progressBar.setProgressDrawable(progressLayerDrawable);     
    progressBar.getProgressDrawable().setBounds(bounds);

    // setProgress() ignores a change to the same value, so:
    if (value1 == 0)
        progressBar.setProgress(1);
    else
        progressBar.setProgress(0);
    progressBar.setProgress(value1);

    // setSecondaryProgress() ignores a change to the same value, so:
    if (value2 == 0)
        progressBar.setSecondaryProgress(1);
    else
        progressBar.setSecondaryProgress(0);
    progressBar.setSecondaryProgress(value2);

    //now force a redraw
    progressBar.invalidate();
  }

An example call would be:

  setColours(myProgressBar, 
          0xff303030,   //bgCol1  grey 
          0xff909090,   //bgCol2  lighter grey 
          0xff0000FF,   //fg1Col1 blue 
          0xffFFFFFF,   //fg1Col2 white
          50,           //value1
          0xffFF0000,   //fg2Col1 red 
          0xffFFFFFF,   //fg2Col2 white
          75);          //value2

If you don't need the 'secondary progress' simply set value2 to value1.