Android - displaying text in center of progress bar

Question

I have already made a horizontal progress bar and it works perfectly. I would like to display a textview or something similar right in the middle of it showing a countdown a

Answer 1

You can use a FrameLayout to display the TextView over the ProgressBar:

...
<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progress"
        style="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:progressDrawable="@drawable/progressbar" />

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true" />
        ...
    </RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>

Answer 2

Here I am using the Frame Layout and put text inside the Frame Layout

 <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/frameLayout"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="30dp"
        map:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/programStatusTextView"
        map:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/programStatusTextView"
        map:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/programStatusTextView">

        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="130dp"
            android:layout_height="60dp"
            android:background="@drawable/battery">

            <ProgressBar
                android:id="@+id/batteryIndicaterBar"
                style="@style/CustomProgressBarHorizontal"
                android:layout_width="119dp"
                android:layout_height="52dp"
                android:layout_marginStart="3dp"
                android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
                android:layout_marginEnd="7dp"
                android:backgroundTint="@color/colorPrimary"
                android:max="100"
                android:minHeight="10dip"
                android:paddingEnd="4dp"
                android:progress="0"
                android:progressBackgroundTintMode="src_over"
                android:progressTint="@color/green"
                android:visibility="visible" />

        </RelativeLayout>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:text="0"
            android:textSize="20sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

    </FrameLayout>

Here is the output I am getting

Answer 3

You can set LinearLayout with RelativeLayout inside it and make RelativeLayout Height & width equal to wrap_content then in the TextView under the ProgressBar you will add android:layout_centerInParent="true"

Example :

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center">
        <ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/progressBar"
            android:layout_width="200dp"
            android:layout_height="200dp"
            android:max="100"
            android:progress="65" />
        <TextView
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerInParent="true"
            android:textColor="@color/white"
            android:text="6:00 AM"
            android:textSize="25sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"/>
    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 4

Source tutorial

In Activity we can Show and Dismiss ProgressBar using the following methods

// Method to show Progress bar
private void showProgressDialogWithTitle(String substring) {
    progressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
    //Without this user can hide loader by tapping outside screen
    progressDialog.setCancelable(false);
    progressDialog.setMessage(substring);
    progressDialog.show();
}

// Method to hide/ dismiss Progress bar
private void hideProgressDialogWithTitle() {
    progressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
    progressDialog.dismiss();
}

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Answer 5

that is what worked for me:

             <RelativeLayout
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent">
                  <ProgressBar
                      android:id="@+id/progressBar"
                      style="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
                      android:progressDrawable="@drawable/customprogressbar"
                      android:layout_width="match_parent"
                      android:layout_height="match_parent"
                      android:max="100"/>

                  <TextView
                      android:id="@+id/progressBarinsideText"
                      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                      android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                      android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                      android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                      android:gravity="center"
                    />
              </RelativeLayout>

Answer 6

You can put the ProgressBar and the TextView inside a Relative Layout and add the following line to both of these children's XML file:

android:layout_centerInParent="true"

This should force both the ProgressBar and the TextView to be displayed in the Center of the same Relative layout.

This can also work if you want to display a Textfield inside a Circular ProgressBar.

PS. if you further want to show the textview above or below (vertically) the progress bar, then you can adjust the 'margin' element of the TextView.