Hello all……

I have posted two posts on how to customize a progressbar in android.

1. Custom Indeterminate progressBar for android?
2. How to build a custom progressBar in android- Part 2?

Here is another one with update text on top of the progressbar.

Here is how we start.

After creating a fresh project create a new java file and name it “TextProgressBar.java”.

Now copy this code to the above file.
This file extends the progressbar to add additional functionality.

package com.coderzheaven.pack;import android.content.Context;import android.graphics.Canvas;import android.graphics.Color;import android.graphics.Paint;import android.graphics.Rect;import android.util.AttributeSet;import android.widget.ProgressBar;public class TextProgressBar extends ProgressBar {private String text;private Paint textPaint;public TextProgressBar(Context context) {super(context);text = "0/100";textPaint = new Paint();textPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);}public TextProgressBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {super(context, attrs);text = "0/100";textPaint = new Paint();textPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);}public TextProgressBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {super(context, attrs, defStyle);text = "0/100";textPaint = new Paint();textPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);}@Overrideprotected synchronized void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {super.onDraw(canvas);Rect bounds = new Rect();textPaint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds);int x = getWidth() / 2 - bounds.centerX();int y = getHeight() / 2 - bounds.centerY();canvas.drawText(text, x, y, textPaint);}public synchronized void setText(String text) {this.text = text;drawableStateChanged();}public void setTextColor(int color) {textPaint.setColor(color);drawableStateChanged();}}

OK the progressbar class is now complete.

Now the xml in which the progressbar contains.

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:orientation="vertical"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="fill_parent"><TextViewandroid:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="Custom ProgressBar Demo from CoderzHeaven"android:textStyle="bold"android:layout_margin="10dp"/><com.coderzheaven.pack.TextProgressBarandroid:id="@+id/pb"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:max="100"android:progress="0"style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"android:maxHeight="20dip"android:minHeight="20dip"/></LinearLayout>

Take a look at this line in the xml

This adds the custom progressbar in the xml.

OK Done now we have to just implement in the custom progressbar.

Now the main java file that is calling the progressbar.

package com.coderzheaven.pack;import android.app.Activity;import android.os.Bundle;import android.os.Handler;import android.os.Message;public class CustomProgressBarDemo extends Activity {int myProgress = 0;TextProgressBar pb;@Overridepublic void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);setContentView(R.layout.main);pb = new TextProgressBar(this);pb = (TextProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.pb);new Thread(myThread).start();}private Runnable myThread = new Runnable(){@Overridepublic void run() {while (myProgress<100){try{System.out.println("SSS");pb.setProgress(myProgress);pb.setText(myProgress+"/100");myHandle.sendMessage(myHandle.obtainMessage());Thread.sleep(500);}catch(Throwable t){}}}Handler myHandle = new Handler(){@Overridepublic void handleMessage(Message msg) {myProgress++;pb.setProgress(myProgress);pb.setText(myProgress+"/100");}};};}

OK Go on and run the project you will get these results.