Android - set a ProgressBar to be a vertical bar instead of horizontal?

Question

I am trying to use a ProgressBar as a metering like display. I thought it was going to be an easy task and thought that ProgressBar had a property to set to be vertical, bu

Answer 1

I know that it´s an old post but I found a very simple solution to this problem that maybe can help somebody. First at all create a progress_drawable_vertical.xml like this:

Then just use this in your progressBar:

I also have created an progress_drawable_horizontal.xml

with the objetive of mantain the same style defined in progress_drawable_vertical.xml

The key here is the correct use of android:clipOrientation and android:gravity.

I found this solution here and the core of the solution is similar to jagsaund but a little bit more simple.