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

To utilize the ProgressBar and make it vertical, you would have to create your own custom View extending the ProgressBar view and override the onDraw() method. This will allow you to draw it in a reverse orientation. Take a look at the source code of the ProgressBar.onDraw() (located at the bottom of the link) for help on how to do this. Best case scenario, you'll just have to swap a few x and y variables.