How to change ProgressBar's progress indicator color in Android

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I copied this from one of my apps, so there's prob a few extra attributes, but should give you the idea. This is from the layout that has the progress bar:

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/ProgressBar"
    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:indeterminate="false"
    android:maxHeight="10dip"
    android:minHeight="10dip"
    android:progress="50"
    android:progressDrawable="@drawable/greenprogress" />

Then create a new drawable with something similar to the following (In this case greenprogress.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@android:id/background">
        <shape>
            <corners android:radius="5dip" />
            <gradient
                android:angle="270"
                android:centerColor="#ff5a5d5a"
                android:centerY="0.75"
                android:endColor="#ff747674"
                android:startColor="#ff9d9e9d" />
        </shape>
    </item>

    <item android:id="@android:id/secondaryProgress">
        <clip>
            <shape>
                <corners android:radius="5dip" />
                <gradient
                    android:angle="270"
                    android:centerColor="#80ffb600"
                    android:centerY="0.75"
                    android:endColor="#a0ffcb00"
                    android:startColor="#80ffd300" />
            </shape>
        </clip>
    </item>
    <item android:id="@android:id/progress">
        <clip>
            <shape>
                <corners android:radius="5dip" />
                <gradient
                    android:angle="270"
                    android:endColor="#008000"
                    android:startColor="#33FF33" />
            </shape>
        </clip>
    </item>

</layer-list>

You can change up the colors as needed, this will give you a green progress bar.

A simpler solution:

progess_drawable_blue

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@android:id/background">
    <shape>
        <solid
                android:color="@color/disabled" />
    </shape>
</item>

<item
    android:id="@android:id/progress">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <solid
                android:color="@color/blue" />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>

</layer-list>

Just create a style in values/styles.xml.

<style name="ProgressBarStyle">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/greenLight</item>
</style>

Then set this style as your ProgressBar theme.

<ProgressBar
    android:theme="@style/ProgressBarStyle"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

and doesn't matter your progress bar is horizontal or circular. That's all.

If you only want to change the progress bar color, you can simply use a color filter in your Activity's onCreate() method:

ProgressBar progressbar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressbar);
int color = 0xFF00FF00;
progressbar.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
progressbar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);

Idea from here.

You only need to do this for pre-lollipop versions. On Lollipop you can use the colorAccent style attribute.

for API level 21 or higher just use

android:progressBackgroundTint="@color/yourBackgroundColor"
android:progressTint="@color/yourColor"

There are 3 ways to solve this question:

1. How to adjust the progressbar color declaratively
2. How to adjust the progressbar color programmatically, but choose the color from various predetermined colors declared before compile-time
3. How to adjust the progressbar color programmatically, and also create the color programatically.

In particular there is a lot of confusion around #2 and #3, as seen in comments to amfcosta's answer. That answer will yield unpredictable color results anytime you'd like to set the progressbar to anything except primary colors, as it only modifies the background color, and the actual progress bar "clip" area will still be a yellow overlay with reduced opacity. For example, using that method to set the background to dark purple will result in a progress bar "clip" color of some crazy pinkish color resulting from dark purple and yellow mixing via reduced alpha.

So anyhow, #1 is answered perfectly by Ryan and Štarke answers most of #3, but for those looking for a complete solution to #2 and #3:

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How to adjust the progressbar color programmatically, but choose the color from a predetermined color declared in XML

res/drawable/my_progressbar.xml:

Create this file but change the colors in my_progress and my_secondsProgress:

(NOTE: This is just a copy of the actual XML file defining the default android SDK ProgressBar, but I've changed the IDs and Colors. The original is named progress_horizontal)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<item android:id="@+id/my_progress_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="@+id/my_secondaryProgress">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <corners android:radius="5dip" />
            <gradient
                android:startColor="#80ff171d"
                android:centerColor="#80ff1315"
                android:centerY="0.75"
                android:endColor="#a0ff0208"
                android:angle="270"
                />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>

<item android:id="@+id/my_progress">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <corners android:radius="5dip" />
            <gradient
                android:startColor="#7d2afdff"
                android:centerColor="#ff2afdff"
                android:centerY="0.75"
                android:endColor="#ff22b9ba"
                android:angle="270"
                />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>

In your Java:

final Drawable drawable;
int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if(sdk < 16) {
        drawable =  ctx.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.my_progressbar);
    } else {
        drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(ctx, R.drawable.my_progressbar);
    }
progressBar.setProgressDrawable(drawable)

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How to adjust the progressbar color programmatically, and also create the color programatically

EDIT: I found the time to solve this properly. My former answer left this a bit ambiguous.

A ProgressBar is composed as 3 Drawables in a LayerDrawable.

1. Layer 1 is the background
2. Layer 2 is the secondary progress color
3. Layer 3 is the main progress bar color

In the example below I'll change the color of the main progress bar to cyan.

//Create new ClipDrawable to replace the old one
float pxCornerRadius = viewUtils.convertDpToPixel(5);
final float[] roundedCorners = new float[] { pxCornerRadius, pxCornerRadius, pxCornerRadius, pxCornerRadius, pxCornerRadius, pxCornerRadius, pxCornerRadius, pxCornerRadius };
ShapeDrawable shpDrawable = new ShapeDrawable(new RoundRectShape(roundedCorners, null, null));
shpDrawable.getPaint().setColor(Color.CYAN);
final ClipDrawable newProgressClip = new ClipDrawable(shpDrawable, Gravity.LEFT, ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL);

//Replace the existing ClipDrawable with this new one
final LayerDrawable layers = (LayerDrawable) progressBar.getProgressDrawable();
layers.setDrawableByLayerId(R.id.my_progress, newProgressClip);

That example set it to a solid color. You may set it to a gradient color by replacing

shpDrawable.getPaint().setColor(Color.CYAN);

with

Shader shader = new LinearGradient(0, 0, 0, progressBar.getHeight(), Color.WHITE, Color.BLACK, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
shpDrawable.getPaint().setShader(shader);

Cheers.

-Lance

With the Material Components Library you can use the LinearProgressIndicator with the app:indicatorColor attribute to change the color:

  <com.google.android.material.progressindicator.LinearProgressIndicator
      app:indicatorColor="@color/..."
      app:trackThickness="..."
      app:trackColor="@color/..."
      />

Note: it requires at least the version 1.3.0-alpha04.

With the ProgressBar you can override the color using:

<ProgressBar
    android:theme="@style/CustomProgressBarTheme"
    ..>

with:

<style name="CustomProgressBarTheme">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/primaryDarkColor</item>
</style>