Lollipop Progress Bar Tinting

The accepted solution wasn't working for me on pre-Lollipop, but I found this solution to fit all APIs and on top of that, it doesn't use any deprecated code:

Java solution

// fixes pre-Lollipop progressBar indeterminateDrawable tinting
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {

    Drawable wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(mProgressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable());
    DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), android.R.color.holo_green_light));
    mProgressBar.setIndeterminateDrawable(DrawableCompat.unwrap(wrapDrawable));
} else {
    mProgressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), android.R.color.holo_green_light), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
}

Kotlin extension

fun ProgressBar.setIndeterminateTintCompat(@ColorInt color: Int) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        val wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(indeterminateDrawable)
        DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, color)
        indeterminateDrawable = DrawableCompat.unwrap(wrapDrawable)
    } else {
        indeterminateTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(color)
    }
}

// usage

val desiredColor = ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.myColor)
myProgressBar.setIndeterminateTintCompat(desiredColor)

Happy coding !


Try changing your ProgressBar to this

<ProgressBar
android:id="@+id/view_progress"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:indeterminateTintMode="src_in"
android:indeterminateTint="@color/red"
/>

Also you can do it programmaticaly doing this :

ProgressBar progressBar;
progressBar = (ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.view_progress);
progressBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(Color.RED, Mode.SRC_IN);

References

Setting in ProgressBar Tint color


To avoid tinting the ProgressBar background as well, you should get a reference to the exact bitmap from the inner ProgressBar LayerDrawable. This is a hacky way of doing it, but it works.

LayerDrawable layerDrawable = (LayerDrawable) progressBar.getProgressDrawable();
Drawable drawable = layerDrawable.getDrawable(2); // The progress bitmap
drawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);