How to make a smaller RatingBar?

How to glue the code given here ...

Step-1. You need your own rating stars in res/drawable ...

Step-2 In res/drawable you need ratingstars.xml as follow ...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@android:id/background"
          android:drawable="@drawable/star_empty" />
    <item android:id="@android:id/secondaryProgress"
          android:drawable="@drawable/star_empty" />
    <item android:id="@android:id/progress"
          android:drawable="@drawable/star" />
</layer-list>

Step-3 In res/values you need styles.xml as follow ...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="foodRatingBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.RatingBar">
        <item name="android:progressDrawable">@drawable/ratingstars</item>
        <item name="android:minHeight">22dip</item>
        <item name="android:maxHeight">22dip</item>
    </style>
</resources>

Step-4 In your layout ...

<RatingBar 
      android:id="@+id/rtbProductRating"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:numStars="5"
      android:rating="3.5"
      android:isIndicator="false"
      style="@style/foodRatingBar"    
/>  

Just use:

android:scaleX="0.5"
android:scaleY="0.5"

Change the scale factor according to your need.

In order to scale without creating a padding on the left also add

android:transformPivotX="0dp"

The default RatingBar widget is sorta' lame.

The source makes reference to style "?android:attr/ratingBarStyleIndicator" in addition to the "?android:attr/ratingBarStyleSmall" that you're already familiar with. ratingBarStyleIndicator is slightly smaller but it's still pretty ugly and the comments note that these styles "don't support interaction".

You're probably better-off rolling your own. There's a decent-looking guide at http://kozyr.zydako.net/2010/05/23/pretty-ratingbar/ showing how to do this. (I haven't done it myself yet, but will be attempting in a day or so.)

Good luck!

p.s. Sorry, was going to post a link to the source for you to poke around in but I'm a new user and can't post more than 1 URL. If you dig your way through the source tree, it's located at frameworks/base/core/java/android/widget/RatingBar.java