How to customize the look of a SeekBar in Android?

Question

I use a SeekBar in my application and I would like to customize it a little bit. I already figured out how to change the Drawable for the thumb and

Answer 1

I'm not sure about Seekbars, but Progressbars can be customized by using a custom style (defined in your styles.xml) like so:

<style name="MyCustomProgressStyle">
    <item name="android:indeterminateOnly">false</item>
    <item name="android:progressDrawable">@drawable/custom_progress_drawable</item>
    <item name="android:indeterminateDrawable">@android:drawable/progress_indeterminate_horizontal</item>
    <item name="android:minHeight">10dip</item>
    <item name="android:maxHeight">10dip</item>
</style>

Then you can set up a custom drawable based on the android system's progress_horizontal.xml (it's in the frameworks/base/core/res/drawable folder of an AOSP checkout). Here's an example from an open-source project.

Answer 2

You have the equivalent of this of the Progress Bar for the seekbar indeed :

  <style name="Widget.SeekBar">
    <item name="android:indeterminateOnly">false</item>
    <item name="android:progressDrawable">@android:drawable/progress_horizontal</item>
    <item name="android:indeterminateDrawable">@android:drawable/progress_horizontal</item>
    <item name="android:minHeight">20dip</item>
    <item name="android:maxHeight">20dip</item>
    <item name="android:thumb">@android:drawable/seek_thumb</item>
    <item name="android:thumbOffset">8px</item>
    <item name="android:focusable">true</item>
  </style>

So you might want to override all this and do it your way, as you would do it for the title bar, by defining your own style.