How to change progress bar's progress color in Android

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

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

https://i.stack.imgur.com/0r60D.png

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));

https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOoLK.png

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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+

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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>

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For my indeterminate progressbar (spinner) I just set a color filter on the drawable. Works great and just one line.

Example where setting color to red:

ProgressBar spinner = new android.widget.ProgressBar(
                context,
                null,
                android.R.attr.progressBarStyle);

spinner.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(0xFFFF0000, android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

https://i.stack.imgur.com/U46rN.png

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This is an old question, but using theme is not mentioned here. If your default theme is using AppCompat, your ProgressBar's color will be colorAccent you have defined.

Changing colorAccent will also change your ProgressBar's color, but there changes also reflects at multiple places. So, if you want a different color just for a specific PregressBar you can do that by applying theme to that ProgressBar :

Extend your default theme and override colorAccent

And in ProgressBar add the android:theme attribute: android:theme="@style/AppTheme.WhiteAccent"

So it will look something like this:

<ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/loading"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.WhiteAccent" />

So you are just changing a colorAccent for your particular ProgressBar.

Note: Using style will not work. You need to use android:theme only. You can find more use of theme here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/JXHKyhsWHAH

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All API

if use all API just create the theme in style

style.xml

<resources>

    //...

    <style name="progressBarBlue" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat">
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/blue</item>
    </style>

</resources>

and use in progress

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

API level 21 and higher

if used in API level 21 and higher just use this code:

<ProgressBar
   //...
   android:indeterminate="true"
   android:indeterminateTintMode="src_atop"
   android:indeterminateTint="@color/secondary"/>

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This works for me. It also works for lower version too. Add this to your syles.xml

<style name="ProgressBarTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

And use it like this in xml

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

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This worked for me :

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

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as per some of the suggestions, you CAN specify a shape and clipdrawable with a colour, then set it. I have this working programatically. This is how I do it..

First make sure you import the drawable library..

import android.graphics.drawable.*;

Then use the code similar to below;

ProgressBar pg = (ProgressBar)row.findViewById(R.id.progress);
final float[] roundedCorners = new float[] { 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 };
pgDrawable = new ShapeDrawable(new RoundRectShape(roundedCorners, null,null));
String MyColor = "#FF00FF";
pgDrawable.getPaint().setColor(Color.parseColor(MyColor));
ClipDrawable progress = new ClipDrawable(pgDrawable, Gravity.LEFT, ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL);
pg.setProgressDrawable(progress);   
pg.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(android.R.drawable.progress_horizontal));
pg.setProgress(45);

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if Indeterminate:

((ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.progressBar))
    .getIndeterminateDrawable()
    .setColorFilter(Color.RED, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);

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android:progressTint="#ffffff" 

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Nowadays in 2016 I found some pre-Lollipop devices don't honour the colorAccent setting, so my final solution for all APIs is now the following:

// fixes pre-Lollipop progressBar indeterminateDrawable tinting
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {

    Drawable wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(mProgressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable());
    DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), android.R.color.holo_green_light));
    mProgressBar.setIndeterminateDrawable(DrawableCompat.unwrap(wrapDrawable));
} else {
    mProgressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), android.R.color.holo_green_light), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
}

For bonus points, it doesn't use any deprecated code. Try it!

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THis is what i did. Worked.

ProgressBar:

<ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/progressBar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="4"
            android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progressdrawable"
           />

progressdrawable.xml: Here use gradient to change colour as you like. And android:toDegrees="X" increse the value of X and progressbar rotate fast. Decrease and it rotate slow.Customize according to your needs.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
     <rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
            android:duration="4000"
            android:fromDegrees="0"
            android:pivotX="50%"
            android:pivotY="50%"
            android:toDegrees="360" >

            <shape
                android:innerRadius="20dp"
                android:shape="ring"
                android:thickness="4dp"
                android:useLevel="false" >
                <size
                    android:height="48dp"
                    android:width="48dp" />

                <gradient
                    android:centerColor="#80ec7e2a"
                    android:centerY="0.5"
                    android:endColor="#ffec7e2a"
                    android:startColor="#00ec7e2a"
                    android:type="sweep"
                    android:useLevel="false" />
            </shape>

        </rotate>

https://i.stack.imgur.com/mzbRK.png

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For SDK ver 21 and above

android:indeterminateTint="@color/orange"

in XML Works for me, is easy enough.

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Hit the same problem while working on modifying the look/feel of the default progress bar. Here is some more info that will hopefully help people :)

The name of the xml file must only contain characters: a-z0-9_. (ie. no capitals!)

To reference your "drawable" it is R.drawable.filename

To override the default look, you use myProgressBar.setProgressDrawable(...), however you need can't just refer to your custom layout as R.drawable.filename, you need to retrieve it as a Drawable: Resources res = getResources(); myProgressBar.setProgressDrawable(res.getDrawable(R.drawable.filename);

You need to set style before setting progress/secondary progress/max (setting it afterwards for me resulted in an 'empty' progress bar)

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Trust me, the easiest solution is just paste this inside progressBar :

android:indeterminateTint="@android:color/white"

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Add in ProgressBar inside of Xml

For SDK ver 21 and above

android:indeterminateTint="@color/red"

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You can try to change your Styles, Themes, or using android:indeterminateTint="@color/yourColor" anywhere you want, but there's just one way o doing that will work on any Android SKD version:

If you progress bar is not indeterminate, please use:

progressBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.yourColor), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN );

If you progress bar is indeterminate, please use:

progressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), R.color.yourColor), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN );

It's sad that Android is such a mess!

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How I did it in horizontal ProgressBar:

    LayerDrawable layerDrawable = (LayerDrawable) progressBar.getProgressDrawable();
    Drawable progressDrawable = layerDrawable.findDrawableByLayerId(android.R.id.progress);
    progressDrawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);

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There's probably one thing that hasn't been referred to in this answer:

If your theme is inheriting from Theme.AppCompat, ProgressBar will assume the color you defined as "colorAccent" in your theme.

So, using..

@color/custom_color

..will tint the color of the ProgressBar automagically to the @color/custom_color .

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Simplest Solution if you want to change the colour in the layout xml file, use the below code and use indeterminateTint property for your desired color.

    <ProgressBar
      android:id="@+id/progressBar"
      style="?android:attr/progressBarStyle"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:indeterminate="true"
      android:indeterminateTintMode="src_atop"
      android:indeterminateTint="#ddbd4e"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
      android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
      android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

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This solution worked for me :

<style name="Progressbar.White" parent="AppTheme">
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/white</item>
</style>

<ProgressBar
    android:layout_width="@dimen/d_40"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/d_40"
    android:indeterminate="true"
    android:theme="@style/Progressbar.White"/>

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The most simple way of changing the foreground and background colour of a progress bar is

<ProgressBar
                        style="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
                        android:id="@+id/pb_main"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="8dp"
                        android:progress="30"
                        android:progressTint="#82e9de"
                        android:progressBackgroundTint="#82e9de"
                        />

just add

                        android:progressTint="#82e9de" //for foreground colour
                        android:progressBackgroundTint="#82e9de" //for background colour

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To change horizontal ProgressBar color (in kotlin):

fun tintHorizontalProgress(progress: ProgressBar, @ColorInt color: Int = ContextCompat.getColor(progress.context, R.color.colorPrimary)){
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        progress.progressTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(color)
    } else{
        val layerDrawable = progress.progressDrawable as? LayerDrawable
        val progressDrawable = layerDrawable?.findDrawableByLayerId(android.R.id.progress)
        progressDrawable?.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP)
    }
}

To change indeterminate ProgressBar color:

fun tintIndeterminateProgress(progress: ProgressBar, @ColorInt color: Int = ContextCompat.getColor(progress.context, R.color.colorPrimary)){
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        progress.indeterminateTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(color)
    } else {
        (progress.indeterminateDrawable as? LayerDrawable)?.apply {
            if (numberOfLayers >= 2) {
                setId(0, android.R.id.progress)
                setId(1, android.R.id.secondaryProgress)
                val progressDrawable = findDrawableByLayerId(android.R.id.progress).mutate()
                progressDrawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP)
            }
        }
    }
}

And it finally normally tint pre-lollipop progressBars

https://i.stack.imgur.com/UcilZ.png

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One more little thing, the theme solution does work if you inherit a base theme, so for app compact your theme should be:

<style name="AppTheme.Custom" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/custom</item>
</style>

And then set this in the progress bar theme

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/progressCircle_progressBar"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.Custom"
    android:indeterminate="true"/>

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Simply use:

DrawableCompat.setTint(progressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable(),yourColor)

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simply use:

PorterDuff.Mode mode = PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT <= Build.VERSION_CODES.GINGERBREAD_MR1) {
    mode = PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY;
}

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
    progressBar.setProgressTintList(ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.RED));
    progressBar.setProgressBackgroundTintList(ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.RED));
} else {
    Drawable progressDrawable;
    progressDrawable = (progressBar.isIndeterminate() ? progressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable() : progressBar.getProgressDrawable()).mutate();
    progressDrawable.setColorFilter(context.getResources().getColor(Color.RED), mode);
    progressBar.setProgressDrawable(progressDrawable);
}

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Horizontal progress bar custom material style :

To change color of background and progress of horizontal progress bar.

<style name="MyProgressBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
    <item name="android:progressBackgroundTint">#69f0ae</item>
    <item name="android:progressTint">#b71c1c</item>
    <item name="android:minWidth">200dp</item>
</style>

Apply it to progress bar by setting style attribute, for custom material styles and custom progress bar check http://www.zoftino.com/android-progressbar-and-custom-progressbar-examples

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Use the android.support.v4.graphics.drawable.DrawableCompat:

            Drawable progressDrawable = progressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable();
            if (progressDrawable  != null) {
                Drawable mutateDrawable = progressDrawable.mutate();
                DrawableCompat.setTint(mutateDrawable, primaryColor);
                progressBar.setProgressDrawable(mutateDrawable);
            }

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Posted to add info about PaulieG's answer, since ateiob asked me to explain something...

I can say that there is (or at least was, at the time of writing when I looked at that current version of Android source code) a bug/issue/optimisation in the ProgressBar code that ignores an attempt to set the progress to a value it is already at.

i.e. if progress = 45, and you try to set it to 45, the code will do nothing, and will not redraw the progress.

After calling ProgressBar.setProgressDrawable(), your progress bar will be blank (because you changed the drawable part).

This means you need to set the progress, and redraw it. But if you just set the progress to a preserved value, it will do nothing.

You must set it to 0 first, then to the "old" value again, and the bar will redraw.

So to summarise:

preserve the "old" progress value

update the drawable / colour (makes bar blank)

reset the progress to 0 (otherwise next line does nothing)

reset the progress to the "old" value (fixes bar)

invalidate

Below is a method I have that does this:

protected void onResume()
{
    super.onResume();
    progBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progress_base);

    int oldProgress = progBar.getProgress();

    // define new drawable/colour
    final float[] roundedCorners = new float[]
        { 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 };
    ShapeDrawable shape = new ShapeDrawable(new RoundRectShape(
        roundedCorners, null, null));
    String MyColor = "#FF00FF";
    shape.getPaint().setColor(Color.parseColor(MyColor));
    ClipDrawable clip = new ClipDrawable(shape, Gravity.LEFT,
        ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL);
    progBar.setProgressDrawable(clip);

    progBar.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(
        android.R.drawable.progress_horizontal));

    // work around: setProgress() ignores a change to the same value
    progBar.setProgress(0);
    progBar.setProgress(oldProgress);

    progBar.invalidate();
}

As far as HappyEngineer's solution, I think it was a similar workaround, to manually set the "progress" offset. In either case, the above code should work for you.

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