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

adding the android:progressDrawable to a layer-list defined in drawable fixed the issue for me. It works by masking the progess bar in a custom drawable

example implementation described at https://stackoverflow.com/a/4454450/1145905