Android Progressbar UI Custom Layout

Android ProgressBar UI custom layout

The solution (feels weird answering your own):
First, one problem was that progress drawable had a different size than background (stupid me!). Also, for progress drawable a clip xml was needed. Something like progressbar_progress_clip.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<clip
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:drawable="@drawable/progressbar_progressing"
    android:clipOrientation="horizontal"
    android:gravity="left"/>

Then, add the progress bar and two images in a relative layout, so that the images can be drawn after the status bar. Something like this:

<RelativeLayout
                android:id="@+id/relativeLayout1"
                android:layout_width="0dip"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
                android:layout_marginRight="10dip"
                android:layout_weight="94" >

                <ProgressBar
                    android:id="@+id/pBarOverallStatus"
                    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
                    android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
                    android:indeterminateOnly="false"
                    android:max="100"
                    android:progressDrawable="@drawable/progressbar_progress_clip" >
                </ProgressBar>

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/ringLeft"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="7dp"
                    android:contentDescription="@string/status_bar_ring"
                    android:src="@drawable/status_bar_ring" />

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/ringRight"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                    android:layout_marginRight="7dp"
                    android:contentDescription="@string/status_bar_ring"
                    android:src="@drawable/status_bar_ring" />
            </RelativeLayout>

Thanks, guys!

How to Customize a Progress Bar In Android

Customizing a ProgressBar requires defining the attribute or properties for the background and progress of your progress bar.

Create an XML file named customprogressbar.xml in your res->drawable folder:

custom_progressbar.xml

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <!-- Define the background properties like color etc -->
    <item android:id="@android:id/background">
    <shape>
        <gradient
                android:startColor="#000001"
                android:centerColor="#0b131e"
                android:centerY="1.0"
                android:endColor="#0d1522"
                android:angle="270"
        />
    </shape>
   </item>

  <!-- Define the progress properties like start color, end color etc -->
  <item android:id="@android:id/progress">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <gradient
                android:startColor="#007A00"
                android:centerColor="#007A00"
                android:centerY="1.0"
                android:endColor="#06101d"
                android:angle="270"
            />
        </shape>
    </clip>
    </item>
</layer-list> 

Now you need to set the progressDrawable property in customprogressbar.xml (drawable)

You can do this in the XML file or in the Activity (at run time).

Do the following in your XML:

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/progressBar1"
    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
    android:progressDrawable="@drawable/custom_progressbar"         
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

At run time do the following

// Get the Drawable custom_progressbar                     
    Drawable draw=res.getDrawable(R.drawable.custom_progressbar);
// set the drawable as progress drawable
    progressBar.setProgressDrawable(draw);

Edit: corrected xml layout

How can I add a custom progress bar before logging in?

First of all, thats not how asynchronous calls are made, if timeout occurs, your code may show a progressbar and stops executing unless button is pressed again,
You should implement a thread and use an interface for callbacks, dismiss the dialog on connection or login completed event.Also you will not need to wait for x seconds if you are in background thread waiting for callbacks, (5 milliseconds is a very short time for a network call, even your ping might take upto 100ms)

And remember to keep reference to the dialog so you can latter dismiss it, i don't think your are doing that even in the code not shared in the question

How to communicate with ui thread

Easier example

In your class, outside oncreate

AlertDialog builder; //you can name it anything

In your progressDialog

builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)

instead of

final AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)

And on connection or login event (or whenever you want to dismiss the dialog

if (builder!=null) {
   builder.dismiss();
   builder = null; //newbies safety
 }

Custom Title Bar with Progress in Android

I believe the only way to do it is to use your own custom title bar. You COULD override the android code since its open source -- but that might be a bad idea. The best thing to do is to make a title bar layout and just <include /> it in all the other layouts and maybe have a helper class to show and hide the progress bar.

Android- How to use another layout as progressbar

There are many ways you can achieve this. I saw you one way.

You can make a Custom Dialog and load this layout using Inflater and set layout to your Dialog. like

LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(Activity.this);
View DialogView = factory.inflate(R.layout.custom_progress_layout, null);

Dialog main_dialog = new Dialog(Activity.this,R.style.Theme_Dialog);
main_dialog.setContentView(DialogView);

progressBar=(ProgressBar)DialogView.findViewById(R.id.progressBar1);
main_dialog.setCancelable(false);
main_dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);
progressBar.setProgress(0);
progressBar.setMax(100);
main_dialog.show();

and when your progress is completed you dismiss this dialog using main_dialog.dismiss();

also in this layout you can display progress text and progress by using some TextView.

Output:

How to customize border width of ProgressBar

1. Create a file with shape drawable for your progress

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       android:fromDegrees="0"
       android:pivotX="50%"
       android:pivotY="50%"
       android:toDegrees="360">
   
       <shape
           android:innerRadiusRatio="3"
           android:shape="ring"
           android:thicknessRatio="8"
           android:useLevel="false">
   
           <solid
                android:color="#F3A523"/>
   
        </shape>
   
   </rotate>
   

2. Use it inside your ProgressBar

    <ProgressBar
       android:id="@+id/progress_bar"
       android:layout_width="24dp"
       android:layout_height="24dp"
       android:indeterminate="true"
       android:progressDrawable="@drawable/progress_bar"
       android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progress_bar"
     />
   

This way you can control width of your border via thicknessRatio property of the drawable

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