Remove vertical padding from horizontal ProgressBar

Question

By default the ProgressBar has a certain padding above and below the bar itself. Is there a way to remove this padding so as to only have the bar in the end?

Answer 1

I ended up using a custom library to solve this issue. Most of the other solutions work but the results are not consistent across various devices.

MaterialProgressBar

• Consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
• Correct tinting across platforms.
• Able to remove the intrinsic padding of framework ProgressBar.
• Able to hide the track of framework horizontal ProgressBar.
• Used as a drop-in replacement for framework ProgressBar.

To add as a gradle dependency:

compile 'me.zhanghai.android.materialprogressbar:library:1.1.7'

To add a ProgressBar with no intrinsic padding to your layout:

app:mpb_useIntrinsicPadding="false" does the trick. For more details see the GitHub page.