Change color of progress bar programmatically

Question

I want to change the colors of a ProgressBar in Android only programmatically. My problem is, how can I set a different color for the progress and another color for the "to fill" - part of the progress bar

Example:

Progress should be green
Last part should be red

have a look at this http://www.tiemenschut.com/how-to-customize-android-progress-bars/ — Deepak Goyal, Aug 06 '15 at 15:29

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '15 at 09:36

There is no possibility to do that atm. You have to develop your own custom view for achieving this.

Create a custom view, extending a Layout, and use the layout for your background of the progress bar. Add another view (starting with 0dp width) for your growing progress.

Add a public method for setting the current progress and adjust the width of the progress view.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '15 at 15:04

You can't apply a custom Style to a Progressbar with the official API.

You might be able to do it using reflection though. A Progressbar has a private field mProgressTintInfo which has following fields: mProgressTintListand mProgressBackgroundTintList, which are ColorStateLists and mHasProgressTint and mHasProgressBackgroundTint, which are booleans.

I've never tried this myself, it might not work at all or only work on specific API levels / devices.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 06 '15 at 15:10

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Sorry for my english, i speak spanish yo can implement you own progressbar, and override the method "ondraw" and uses 2 filled rectangles and a 2 filled circles with yours own colors.

again, super sorry for my english,..

answered Aug 06 '15 at 15:10

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