Programmatically add background images to android seekbar

Question

I want to add background images to my seekbar through java code not through xml. I want my seekbar to look like below image.

http://imageshack.us/a/img32/3834/sliderbar.png

My seekbar is also created through java code only not using any xml file.

I dont want to refer any xml file to do this, everything should be done through code.!

Can somebody help to do this. Thanks in advance.

I created xml drawable files in drawable-hdpi folder called progress.xml and thumb.xml and referred them in seekbar.xml of layout folder — user1525410, Oct 17 '12 at 12:40

Thiago M Rocha · Answer 1 · 2012-10-17T12:14:47.470

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Try using setThumb,setProgressDrawable or setBackground methods of your SeekBar! If you really want a cool customized seekbar like this, I suggest you try referring xml files. It would make your life easier.

I've wrote a simple example that will give you a start point.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);//the layout that has your seekbar

        SeekBar mSeekBar = (SeekBar)findViewById(R.id.seek_bar);//your seek bar

        mSeekBar.setThumb(R.drawable.thumb_image);//your thumb image
        mSeekBar.setProgressDrawable(R.drawable.progress_image);//your progress image
        mSeekBar.setBackground(R.drawable.background_image);//your background image
    }
}

edited Oct 17 '12 at 12:14

answered Oct 17 '12 at 11:40

Thiago M Rocha

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I tried refering to xml files but was always getting ResourceNotFoundException, i could not get rid of this even after cleaning and rebuilding my project hundreds of times.There were no errors in my xml files. Basically i want to avoid hardcoding through xml. – user1525410 Oct 17 '12 at 12:22
I want seekbar to look exactly like in the image above, this code doesnt give me that. – user1525410 Oct 17 '12 at 12:29
The example is just the IDEA of the solution according to your question. Perhaps you could change the parameters according to the xml files of your project... – Thiago M Rocha Oct 17 '12 at 12:39
Is there any way to do progrmmatically what we generally do through xml files in this case? I mean defining layerlist drawables by java code. – user1525410 Oct 17 '12 at 12:44
Of course! You can instantiate your `View` and set the parameters, one by one, in the same way like the example above. – Thiago M Rocha Oct 17 '12 at 12:48
Above code resulted in this : http://imageshack.us/a/img202/8252/sliderib.png only thumb looks fine, i think backgroundDrawable is overwritten by progressDrawable. green image is filled entire seekbar. – user1525410 Oct 17 '12 at 13:05
Check out this link. It might helps you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7056803/making-a-custom-skinny-progressbar-seekbar – Thiago M Rocha Oct 18 '12 at 11:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 28 '16 at 06:58

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Try this for seekbar clip

Drawable thumb = ContextCompat.getDrawable(getActivity(), R.mipmap.cir_32);
mSeekBar.setThumb(thumb);

edited Dec 28 '16 at 06:58

HebeleHododo

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answered Dec 28 '16 at 06:53

Ashwin H

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Programmatically add background images to android seekbar

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