How to change the color of an indefinite ProgressBar?

Question

I have a progressbar with the following style: style=\"?android:attr/android:progressBarStyleSmall\"

Sadly the bar is nearly white and in my case displ

Answer 1

The reason why the bar is of that color is because of the style you have selected. That is a fixed style and uses the system themes for the generation of UI elements.

Look at the source code from here. This progressBarStyleSmall attribute uses the styles defined here.

Just create a custom style following the example from the android source code. You would need to replace the android:indeterminateDrawable to what you want.