How to set the Android progressbar's height?

Question

My activity_main.xml is below, as you see, the height is set 40 dip.

And in MyEclipse, it looks like below:

Answer 1

Many solution here with lot of upvotes didn't work for me, even the accepted answer. I solved it by setting the scaleY, but isn't a good solution if you need too much height because the drawable comes pixelated.

Programmatically:

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progressBar.setScaleY(2f);

XML Layout:

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android:scaleY="2"

Answer 2

This is the progress bar I have used.

<ProgressBar
     android:padding="@dimen/dimen_5"
     android:layout_below="@+id/txt_chklist_progress"
     android:id="@+id/pb_media_progress"
     style="@style/MyProgressBar"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_gravity="center"
     android:progress="70"
     android:scaleY="5"
     android:max="100"
     android:progressBackgroundTint="@color/white"
     android:progressTint="@color/green_above_avg" />

And this is my style tag

 <style name="MyProgressBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
    <item name="android:progressBackgroundTint">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:progressTint">@color/green_above_avg</item>
</style>

Answer 3

values->styles.xml

<style name="tallerBarStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.SeekBar">
    <item name="android:indeterminateOnly">false</item>
    <item name="android:progressDrawable">@android:drawable/progress_horizontal</item>
    <item name="android:indeterminateDrawable">@android:drawable/progress_horizontal</item>
    <item name="android:minHeight">8dip</item>
    <item name="android:maxHeight">20dip</item>
</style>

Then in your ProgressBar add:

style="@style/tallerBarStyle"

Answer 4

I guess the simplest solution would be:

mProgressBar.setScaleY(3f);

Answer 5

You can use the LinearProgressIndicator provided by the Material Components Library and the app:trackThickness attribute:

<com.google.android.material.progressindicator.LinearProgressIndicator
    android:indeterminate="true"
    app:trackThickness="xxdp"
    ../>

With 12dp:

With 4dp:

Note: it requires at least the version 1.3.0-alpha04.