Custom Progress Bar in Android

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

Custom logo as progress bar in android studio

You would use AnimationDrawable instead of ProgressBar, copy and modify from the original vector to quadruple vectors (like drawable/phase1.xml ~ drawable/phase4.xml) and list them in an animation list (like drawable/progress.xml). For example:

<animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:oneshot="false">
    <item
        android:drawable="@drawable/phase1"
        android:duration="100" />
    <item
        android:drawable="@drawable/phase2"
        android:duration="100" />
    <item
        android:drawable="@drawable/phase3"
        android:duration="100" />
    <item
        android:drawable="@drawable/phase4"
        android:duration="100" />
</animation-list>

Then you can load it into an ImageView and animate it:

ImageView progress.setImageResource(R.drawable.progress);
((AnimationDrawable) progress.getDrawable()).start();

Custom progressbar how to

You can use something like this with ConstraintLayout

  <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button3"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:background="#A496D8"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHeight_percent="0.1"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:padding="0dp"
        android:background="#000000"
        android:elevation="6dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/button3"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/button3"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/button3" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:elevation="6dp"
        android:text="Some text"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/button3"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/button3"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/button3"
        app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.0" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

It will look like this:

Sample Image

But to be honest, I think you better use some library that already handling a lot of logic for you. for example:

NumberProgressBar

ProgressView

Android-RoundCornerProgressBar

Another easy option that you have is to use a horizontal progress bar (How to create a horizontal loading progress bar?) and just put some text on it.

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
 }

How to create a custom ProgressBar with drawables, without programming?

Create progress.xml file in drawable folder:

<?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">

        <size
            android:width="76dip"
            android:height="76dip" />

        <gradient
            android:angle="0"
            android:endColor="#1672B6"
            android:startColor="@android:color/transparent"
            android:type="sweep"
            android:useLevel="false" />
    </shape>
</rotate>

Then use it like this:

<ProgressBar
                android:id="@+id/pbarLoading"
                android:layout_width="36dp"
                android:layout_height="36dp"
                android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progress"/>