Android RatingBar - a complete mess

Question

I know this is going to sound ranty, but it just feels like Android\'s UI components and behaviours are off the wall sometimes.

Consider the following XML:

Answer 1

I felt the same way as you when using the stock RatingBar, so I made my own: SimpleRatingBar.

It features:

• Fully working android:layout_width: it can be set to wrap_content, match_parent or abritary dp.
• Arbitrary number of stars.
• Arbitrary step size.
• Size of stars can be controlled exactly or by setting a maximum size.
• Customizable colors (border, fill and background of stars).
• Customizable size separation between stars.
• Customizable border width of stars.
• Allows to set OnRatingBarChangeListener
• Stars fill can be set to start from left to right or from right to left (RTL language support).
• AnimationBuilder integrated in the view to set rating programatically with animation.

Here is a preview of it.

You can find it either in jcenter or in Maven Central. So in your build.gradle file just add to your dependencies:

compile 'com.iarcuschin:simpleratingbar:0.1.+'

I hope it's useful.