Lollipop Progress Bar Tinting

Question

I'm on a Lollipop device (MotoG 2014), I read about progress bar tinting, but this is not working...I get the default progress bar color. What am I missing here?

<ProgressBar
    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
    android:layout_width="50dp"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    android:backgroundTintMode="src_in"
    android:indeterminate="true"
    android:indeterminateTint="#f00" />

Many thanks.

Answer 1

The accepted solution wasn't working for me on pre-Lollipop, but I found this solution to fit all APIs and on top of that, it doesn't use any deprecated code:

Java solution

// 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);
}

Kotlin extension

fun ProgressBar.setIndeterminateTintCompat(@ColorInt color: Int) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        val wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(indeterminateDrawable)
        DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, color)
        indeterminateDrawable = DrawableCompat.unwrap(wrapDrawable)
    } else {
        indeterminateTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(color)
    }
}

// usage

val desiredColor = ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.myColor)
myProgressBar.setIndeterminateTintCompat(desiredColor)

Happy coding !

Answer 2

Try changing your ProgressBar to this

<ProgressBar
android:id="@+id/view_progress"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:indeterminateTintMode="src_in"
android:indeterminateTint="@color/red"
/>

Also you can do it programmaticaly doing this :

ProgressBar progressBar;
progressBar = (ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.view_progress);
progressBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(Color.RED, Mode.SRC_IN);

References

Setting in ProgressBar Tint color

Answer 3

Your code works well in Android 6.0+, but not for Android 5.1 and before as I have tested on my local Android emulator.

I agree with the explanation of @Skizo-ozᴉʞS, and I've found an issue report in Android Issue Tracker that may refer to this bug. See this link.

From the code it seems that using "android:indeterminateTint" only will not take any effects for API < 23.

Answer 4

To avoid tinting the ProgressBar background as well, you should get a reference to the exact bitmap from the inner ProgressBar LayerDrawable. This is a hacky way of doing it, but it works.

LayerDrawable layerDrawable = (LayerDrawable) progressBar.getProgressDrawable();
Drawable drawable = layerDrawable.getDrawable(2); // The progress bitmap
drawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);

Answer 5

/**change your progress drawable asrequired****/

   Drawable wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(_progress.getIndeterminateDrawable());
   DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.colorOrange));
  _progress.setIndeterminateDrawable(DrawableCompat.unwrap(wrapDrawable));