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

A simple no-tricks solution which is compatible with any version of Android and doesn't need external libraries is faking ProgressBar with two Views inside LinearLayout. This is what I ended up with. Looks pretty neat and this approach is quite flexible - you can animate it in funky ways, add text etc.

Layout:

Code:

public void setProgressValue(float percentage) {
    TextView progressValue = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.inventory_progress_value);
    TextView progressRemaining = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.inventory_progress_remaining);

    LinearLayout.LayoutParams paramsValue = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
    LinearLayout.LayoutParams paramsRemaining = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);

    paramsValue.weight = (100 - percentage);
    paramsRemaining.weight = percentage;

    progressValue.setLayoutParams(paramsValue);
    progressRemaining.setLayoutParams(paramsRemaining);

}

Result (with some elevation added):