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Android - Seekbar tick mark color not able to change

I am using Discrete seekbar. I want to change the color of tick marks. I am trying like following.
<SeekBar
android:id="#+id/seekBar"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.SeekBar.Discrete"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:max="10"
android:thumbTint="#color/colorPrimary"
android:tickMarkTint="#color/colorAccent"/>
And also I create style and applied in tickMark.
drw_bg_tickmark.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="oval"
android:tint="#color/colorAccent">
<corners android:radius="4dp"/>
<size android:width="10dp"
android:height="10dp" />
<solid android:color="#color/colorAccent" />
</shape>
Applied in seekbar
android:tickMark="#drawable/drw_bg_tickmark"
But I am not able to remove the gray ticks in the seek bar. Please help me on this.

If you want to remove the gray ticks/balls you can just remove the style, and apply your drawable to android:tickMark
<SeekBar
android:id="#+id/seekBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:max="10"
android:tickMark="#drawable/drw_bg_tickmark"
android:thumbTint="#color/colorPrimary"
android:tickMarkTint="#color/colorAccent"/>

create a style for your seekbar
<resources>
<style name="SeekBarWithoutSteps" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.SeekBar.Discrete">
<item name="tickMark">#null</item>
</style>
</resources>
<SeekBar
android:id="#+id/seekBar"
style="#style/SeekBarWithoutSteps"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:max="10"
android:thumbTint="#color/colorPrimary"
android:tickMarkTint="#color/colorAccent"/>

how to change android progress bar thickness

this should be a very easy to customize style...
i want a horizontal progress bar that is slithly thick (or that i can customize the thickness) and the color matches the apps color
if i do
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/textLoading"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:indeterminate="true"
/>
the progress bar is horizontal and matches app visual identity... but is too thin... the person need glases to see it
if i do
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
style="android:Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/textLoading"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:indeterminate="true"
/>
the progress bar is good thickness but the color is a stupid yellow that matches nothing in this plannet
how can i customize individual parameters???

there are many ways to achieve what you need:
1- use android:scaleY="8" in your XML file
or from code
mProgressBar.setScaleY(3f);
2- style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
this will make you have Horizontal progress bar, so you can inherit it in styles and edit it as follows:
<style name="CustomProgressBarHorizontal" parent="android:Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
<item name="android:progressDrawable">#drawable/custom_progress_bar_horizontal</item>
<item name="android:minHeight">10dp</item>
<item name="android:maxHeight">20dp</item>
</style>

Here is an example for a progress bar:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="20dp"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/my_progressbar" />
and here is my_progressbar.xml:
<?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:gravity="center_vertical|fill_horizontal">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<corners android:radius="10dp"/>
<size android:height="20dp"/>
<solid android:color="#color/blue"/>
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:id="#android:id/progress"
android:gravity="center_vertical|fill_horizontal">
<scale android:scaleWidth="100%">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<corners
android:radius="10dp"
/>
<size android:height="20dp"/>
<solid android:color="#color/yellow"/>
</shape>
</scale>
</item>
</layer-list>
Here is an example of how it looks:

You can use Android Material Progress Bar:
com.google.android.material.progressindicator.LinearProgressIndicator
XML example:
<com.google.android.material.progressindicator.LinearProgressIndicator
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:progress="45"
app:indicatorColor="#color/blue_light"
app:trackColor="#FFFFFF"
app:trackCornerRadius="5dp"
app:trackThickness="10dp" />
Now you can use app:trackThickness to adjust the thickness of the progress bar
You can also check out Google's Material Design page regarding Material Progress Bar here: https://material.io/components/progress-indicators/android#using-progress-indicators

You can customize the style with:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
android:indeterminate="true"
style="#style/CustomProgressBar"
with:
<style name="CustomProgressBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
<item name="minHeight">32dip</item> <!-- default 16dp -->
<item name="maxHeight">32dip</item> <!-- default 16dp -->
</style>
If you want to customize the color use:
<ProgressBar
style="#style/CustomProgressBar"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:theme="#style/CustomProgressBarTheme"
/>
with:
<style name="CustomProgressBarTheme">
<item name="colorControlActivated">#color/....</item>
</style>

How to change progress bar progress color?

I created this progress bar for my app, but I cant get that yellow orangy color that appears to change to something like red or blue.
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress_bar"
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="250sp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:progress="2"
android:layout_marginTop="82dp"
android:max="3"
android:indeterminate="false"
android:layout_below="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
above is my progress bar xml code.
Any help guys? :)
Thanks so much in advance! :)

If android version is 5.0 and above you just need to set
android:indeterminateTint="#color/BLACK"
android:indeterminateTintMode="src_in"
For lower version I use this
mProgressBar.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(getResources()
.getColor(R.color.primary_color),PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);

Create a new XML file in your drawable folder called something like custom_progress_bar.xml and paste this there:
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- Define the background properties like color etc -->
<item android:id="#android:id/background">
<clip>
<shape>
<solid android:color="#000000" />
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
<!-- Define the progress properties like start color, end color etc -->
<item android:id="#android:id/progress">
<clip>
<shape>
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
</layer-list>
And in your <ProgressBar> add this attribute:
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/custom_progress_bar"
Change the 2 colors to your own preference. I put #FFFFFF and #000000 which are white and black.

Go to your styles.xml and change the colorAccent value from your base application theme e.g.
<item name="colorAccent">{COLOR}</item>
I am using minSdkVersion 15 and it worked for me.

If you want to change the ProgressBar color, not by drawable, you can use this style as theme for the ProgressBar
<style name="ProgressBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar">
<item name="colorAccent">#color/white_primary</item>
</style>

If android:indeterminateTint doesn't work, try this:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress_bar"
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:progressTint="#color/Red" <--------------------------
android:progressBackgroundTint="#color/Blue" <---------------
android:layout_width="250sp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:progress="2"
android:layout_marginTop="82dp"
android:max="3"
android:indeterminate="false"
android:layout_below="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

Try this and add you custom color
Progressbar mBar= (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
mBar.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(Color.parseColor("#80DAEB"),
android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
Hope this helps

For future references:
For API 21+ we can use directly in the XML:
android:indeterminateTint="#android:color/white"

set theme in style.xml like this
<style name="ProgressBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar">
<item name="colorAccent">#color/dark_blue</item>
</style>
then use this style as "theme" in progressBar like this,
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
android:theme="#style/ProgressBar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="440dp"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="#+id/splashTitle"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.493"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="#+id/splashTitle"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/splashTitle" />
Happy coding

Styling indeterminate horizontal progress bar on android

Styling determinate progress bar is easy, there are many tutorials to achieve that. This is on I'm using:
<ProgressBar
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="8dp"
android:background="#drawable/progress_background"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/progress"
android:id="#+id/progressBar" />
Drawable progress_background.xml:
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#android:id/progress">
<clip>
<shape>
<solid android:color="#color/colorAccent" />
<corners android:radius="4dp" />
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
</layer-list>
It looks like this:
But when progress is not available yet, I'd like to use indeterminate one. So I tried:
<ProgressBar
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="8dp"
android:background="#drawable/progress_background"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/progress"
android:indeterminateTint="#color/colorAccent"
android:indeterminateTintMode="src_in"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:id="#+id/progressBar" />
But indeterminate progress is not stretched to bar height:
I tried to style it using drawable file as well but it looked like broken determinate progress bar (filling from 0 to 100 all over again).
Desired indeterminate progress bar should look like regular one but with 8dp height and rounded corners.

Default indeterminate progress bar animation use a non 9-patch pngs. So it can't be stretched over your 8dp height progress bar. You should add android:indeterminateDrawable with custom animation:
<animation-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:oneshot="false">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate1" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate2" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate3" android:duration="50" />
...
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminateX" android:duration="50" />
</animation-list>
Then make drawables to animate it like this (it can be xml or image or 9-patch):
Animation frame 1
Animation frame 2
Never versions of android (api21+) use AnimatedVectorDrawable for indeterminate ProgressBar.

I saw that a lot of people are looking on this post so I thought that I should edit it and share an example:
Note (this example is not complete, it's still in progress but I guess it's a starting point)
GitHub: Github Example
The important part in this example is below: Create in drawable a xml file custom_progress_bar_horizontal.xml and add the content below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#android:id/background">
<shape>
<padding
android:bottom="3dip"
android:top="3dip"
android:left="3dip"
android:right="3dip"/>
<corners
android:radius="5dip" />
<gradient
android:startColor="#2a2b2f"
android:centerColor="#2a2b2f"
android:centerY="0.50"
android:endColor="#2a2b2f"
android:angle="270" />
</shape>
</item>
<item
android:id="#android:id/progress">
<clip>
<shape>
<corners
android:radius="5dip" />
<gradient
android:startColor="#ff0e75af"
android:endColor="#ff1997e1"
android:angle="90" />
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
</layer-list>
Add the following code in styles.xml
<style name="CustomProgressBar" parent="android:Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
<item name="android:indeterminateOnly">false</item>
<item name="android:progressDrawable">#drawable/custom_progress_bar_horizontal</item>
<item name="android:minHeight">10dip</item>
<item name="android:maxHeight">20dip</item>
</style>
After you have added the style in your activity layout add:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/customProgress"
style="#style/CustomProgressBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"/>
The progress dispaly below in a frame it's a little tricky because you need to extend the ProgressBar class and make the changes there.
I will leave here some examples and notify when I will add them in my github project.
Great example if you want to disaply the progress in your way: NumberProgressBar
Other progress bar examples:
Custom progress bar 1
Custom progress bar 2
For more detail visit here. Android horizontal progress bar?

You know, android has a View named: LinearProgressIndicator
you can have indeterminate animation in the horizontal progress bar with that.
<com.google.android.material.progressindicator.LinearProgressIndicator
android:layout_width="280dp"
android:layout_height="12dp"
android:indeterminate="true"
app:indicatorColor="#color/app_brand_primary"
app:trackColor="#color/color_divider"
app:trackCornerRadius="6dp"
app:trackThickness="12dp" />
p.s - it has a weird behaviour for toggling the indeterminate value programmatically. to do that you should
set visibility to invisible,
set indeterminate boolean,
then show the view again.
example :
progress.isVisible = false
progress.isIndeterminate = true
progress.isVisible = true
Issue :
https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android/issues/1921

Remove vertical padding from horizontal ProgressBar

By default the ProgressBar has a certain padding above and below the bar itself. Is there a way to remove this padding so as to only have the bar in the end?

I use the following as a workaround for this issue.
android:layout_marginBottom="-8dp"
android:layout_marginTop="-4dp"

This is how I used Juozas's answer:
height of my ProgressBar is 4dp. So I created a FrameLayout with height 4dp and set the layout_gravity of ProgressBar to center. It's works like a charm.
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4dp">
<ProgressBar
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:indeterminate="true" />
</FrameLayout>
Note: What a FrameLayout does is it clips away anything excess, so if you face the problem where the ProgressBar is still thin, just set the layout_height of the ProgressBar to some large number like 100dp. It'll fully cover the FrameLayout and will only show 4dp of it.

If someone still needs help can try this:
<androidx.core.widget.ContentLoadingProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#+id/guideline"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:visibility="visible"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/guideline" />
Here, the progress bar is inside the ConstraintLayout, and the constraintTop_toTopOf and constraintBottom_toTopOf attributes must be applied to the same element (in this case, it is guideline).
*** COMPLETE SOLUTION:***
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="48dp">
<View
android:id="#+id/guideline"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:visibility="invisible"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent" />
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress_bar"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminate="true"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/guideline"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#+id/guideline" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

I ended up using a custom library to solve this issue. Most of the other solutions work but the results are not consistent across various devices.
MaterialProgressBar
Consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
Correct tinting across platforms.
Able to remove the intrinsic padding of framework ProgressBar.
Able to hide the track of framework horizontal ProgressBar.
Used as a drop-in replacement for framework ProgressBar.
To add as a gradle dependency:
compile 'me.zhanghai.android.materialprogressbar:library:1.1.7'
To add a ProgressBar with no intrinsic padding to your layout:
<me.zhanghai.android.materialprogressbar.MaterialProgressBar
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="4dp"
android:indeterminate="true"
app:mpb_progressStyle="horizontal"
app:mpb_useIntrinsicPadding="false"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialProgressBar.ProgressBar.Horizontal" />
app:mpb_useIntrinsicPadding="false" does the trick. For more details see the GitHub page.

To remove the vertial padding of ProgressBar, you can do by
fix the height of ProgressBar
Use scaleY="value" (value = height/4) (4 is default height of progress bar)
Example contains 1 wrap_content ProgressBar, 1 8dp ProgressBar, 1 100dp ProgressBar
<ProgressBar
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
...
android:layout_height="8dp"
android:scaleY="2" />

<com.google.android.material.progressindicator.LinearProgressIndicator
android:id="#+id/progress_loading"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="visible"
android:indeterminate="true"
app:indicatorColor="#color/colorAccent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/app_bar_pdfview"/>
I am using this new progress bar using this
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.3.0'
trackThickness: the thickness of the indicator and track.
indicatorColor: the color(s) of the indicator.
trackColor: the color of the track.
trackCornerRadius: the radius of the rounded corner of the indicator
and track.
indeterminateAnimationType: the type of indeterminate animation.
indicatorDirectionLinear: the sweeping direction of the indicator.

It's possible to draw vertically centered ProgressBar inside a parent that would clip away the padding. Since ProgressBar cannot draw itself bigger than parent, we must create a big parent to place inside a clipping view.
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/clippedProgressBar"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4dp"
tools:ignore="UselessParent">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="16dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical">
<ProgressBar
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:indeterminate="true"/>
</FrameLayout>
</FrameLayout>

A complete solution to this problem would be as follows. Just in case if someone needs code fragments, this is what I did.
Copied all the 8 indeterminate horizontal progressbar drawables
Edited the drawables using some image manipulator and remove unnecessary paddings
Copied the drawable XML named progress_indeterminate_horizontal_holo.xml from android platform
Copied the style Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal and its parents
Set the style and min_height manually in the layout
Here is the progress_indeterminate_horizontal_holo.xml
<animation-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:oneshot="false">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo1" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo2" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo3" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo4" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo5" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo6" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo7" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/progressbar_indeterminate_holo8" android:duration="50" />
</animation-list>
Style resources copied to my local styles file.
<style name="Widget">
<item name="android:textAppearance">#android:attr/textAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="Widget.ProgressBar">
<item name="android:indeterminateOnly">true</item>
<item name="android:indeterminateBehavior">repeat</item>
<item name="android:indeterminateDuration">3500</item>
</style>
<style name="Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
<item name="android:indeterminateOnly">false</item>
<item name="android:indeterminateDrawable">#drawable/progress_indeterminate_horizontal_holo</item>
</style>
And finally, set min height to 4dp in my local layout file.
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/pb_loading"
style="#style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:minHeight="4dp"
android:minWidth="48dp"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/progress_indeterminate_horizontal_holo" />

I met the same problem while using progressbar with Horizontal style.
The root cause is that the default 9-patch drawable for progress bar:
(progress_bg_holo_dark.9.png) has some vertical transparent pixels as padding.
The final Solution that worked for me: customize the progress drawable, my sample code as follow:
custom_horizontal_progressbar_drawable.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#android:id/background">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#33ffffff" />
</shape>
</item>
<item android:id="#android:id/secondaryProgress">
<clip>
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#ff9800" />
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
<item android:id="#android:id/progress">
<clip>
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#E91E63" />
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
</layer-list>
layout snippet:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/song_progress_normal"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="5dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/custom_horizontal_progressbar_drawable"
android:progress="0"/>

One trick is to add negative margins to your progress bar.
Below is an example of the XML code, assuming it's on top of your screen:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="-7dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="-7dp"
android:indeterminate="true" />

if someone still searching for a solution -- check this comment
set the minimum height to be 4 dp
android:minHeight="4dp"
-
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/web_view_progress_bar"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminate="false"
android:max="100"
android:min="0"
android:progress="5"
android:minHeight="4dp"
android:progressTint="#color/vodafone_red"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
tools:progress="60" />

Subin's answer seems to be the only one (currently) that isn't a fragile hack subject to breakage in future releases of the Android ProgressBar.
But rather than going through the trouble of breaking out the resources, modifying them, and maintaining them indefinitely, I've opted to use the MaterialProgressBar library, which does that for us:
<me.zhanghai.android.materialprogressbar.MaterialProgressBar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
custom:mpb_progressStyle="horizontal"
custom:mpb_showTrack="false"
custom:mpb_useIntrinsicPadding="false"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialProgressBar.ProgressBar.Horizontal.NoPadding"
/>
In build.gradle:
// Android horizontal ProgressBar doesn't allow removal of top/bottom padding
compile 'me.zhanghai.android.materialprogressbar:library:1.1.6'
That project has a nice demo that shows the differences between it and the built-in ProgressBar.

I use minHeight and maxHeigh. It helps for different Api versions.
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress_bar"
style="#style/Base.Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxHeight="3dp"
android:minHeight="3dp" />
It needs to use both. Api 23 works nice with
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="0dp"
But lower Api versions increase progress bar height to maxHeight in that case.

Try the following:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress_bar"
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:progress="25"
android:progressTint="#color/colorWhite"
android:progressBackgroundTint="#color/colorPrimaryLight"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4dp" />
... and then configure the progress bar to your needs since it'll initially display a mid-sized bar with a yellow-colored progress tint with a grayish progress background tint. Also, notice that there's no vertical padding.

Use like this, inside Linearlayout
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="#efefef"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:visibility="gone"
android:layout_marginTop="-7dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="-7dp"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal" />
</LinearLayout>

For me this is working. Progress bar is sharp. It fits perfectly. I tried with different heights of frame and progress.
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4dp">
<ProgressBar
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="16dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:indeterminate="true"/>
</FrameLayout>
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adding the android:progressDrawable to a layer-list defined in drawable fixed the issue for me. It works by masking the progess bar in a custom drawable
example implementation described at https://stackoverflow.com/a/4454450/1145905

I'm using style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal" and it was fairly easy to get rid of the margins. That style is:
<item name="progressDrawable">#drawable/progress_horizontal_material</item>
<item name="indeterminateDrawable">#drawable/progress_indeterminate_horizontal_material</item>
<item name="minHeight">16dip</item>
<item name="maxHeight">16dip</item>
I just overrode the min/max height:
<ProgressBar
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="2dp"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:minHeight="2dp"
android:maxHeight="2dp" />

Not necessary to download any new module or even put a FrameLayout around your Progress Bar. These are all just hacks. Only 2 steps:
In your whatever.xml
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/workoutSessionGlobalProgress"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="YOUR_HEIGHT"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/progress_horizontal"
android:progress="0"
<!-- High value to make ValueAnimator smoother -->
android:max="DURATION * 1000"
android:indeterminate="false"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialProgressBar.ProgressBar.Horizontal"/>
progress_horizontal.xml, Change the values as you please.
Don't like the rounded corners? Remove corner radius
Don't like the colors? Change the colors, etc.
Done!
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#android:id/background">
<shape>
<corners android:radius="5dip" />
<gradient
android:startColor="#ff9d9e9d"
android:centerColor="#ff5a5d5a"
android:centerY="0.75"
android:endColor="#ff747674"
android:angle="270"
/>
</shape>
</item>
<item android:id="#android:id/secondaryProgress">
<clip>
<shape>
<corners android:radius="5dip" />
<gradient
android:startColor="#80ffd300"
android:centerColor="#80ffb600"
android:centerY="0.75"
android:endColor="#a0ffcb00"
android:angle="270"
/>
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
<item android:id="#android:id/progress">
<clip>
<shape>
<corners android:radius="5dip" />
<gradient
android:startColor="#ffffd300"
android:centerColor="#ffffb600"
android:centerY="0.75"
android:endColor="#ffffcb00"
android:angle="270"
/>
</shape>
</clip>
</item>
</layer-list>
Generally, these are the steps to change the code of anything you don't like. Just find the source code and figure out what to change. If you follow the ProgressBar source code, you will find a file called progress_horizontal.xml that it references. Basically how I solve all my XML problems.

Just make use of Material ProgressIndicator which has no hidden margin.
<com.google.android.material.progressindicator.ProgressIndicator
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.ProgressIndicator.Linear.Indeterminate"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:indicatorColor="#color/colorPrimary"
app:trackColor="#color/colorAccent" />

<ProgressBar
android:layout_marginTop="-8dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="-8dp"
android:layout_marginRight="-8dp"
android:id="#+id/progress_bar"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4dp"
android:indeterminate="false"
android:indeterminateTint="#color/white"
android:max="100"
android:paddingStart="8dp"
android:paddingRight="0dp"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/progress_bg" />

<androidx.core.widget.ContentLoadingProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:paddingTop="2dp"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>

set height value you want in java file, most important is setMaxHeight.
progressBar.setMinHeight(heightYouWant);
progressBar.setMaxHeight(heightYouWant);
it work for me!

A simple no-tricks solution which is compatible with any version of Android and doesn't need external libraries is faking ProgressBar with two Views inside LinearLayout. This is what I ended up with. Looks pretty neat and this approach is quite flexible - you can animate it in funky ways, add text etc.
Layout:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/inventory_progress_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4dp"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/inventory_progress_value"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/inventory_progress_remaining"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
Code:
public void setProgressValue(float percentage) {
TextView progressValue = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.inventory_progress_value);
TextView progressRemaining = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.inventory_progress_remaining);
LinearLayout.LayoutParams paramsValue = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
LinearLayout.LayoutParams paramsRemaining = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
paramsValue.weight = (100 - percentage);
paramsRemaining.weight = percentage;
progressValue.setLayoutParams(paramsValue);
progressRemaining.setLayoutParams(paramsRemaining);
}
Result (with some elevation added):

The best solution should be
android:minHeight="0dp"
No workaround and works like a charm.

One simple way to move the Progressbar up that does not require any additional views or fiddling with the margins is to use the attribute android:translationZ
That way you could either use it in the XML
<Progressbar
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:translateY="-6dp"
/>
or
use it from within a style
<style name="MyTheme.Progressbar.Horizontal" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Progressbar.Horizontal">
<item name="android:translateY">-6dp</item>
</style>
and then reference it in the Layout like this
<Progressbar
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
style="#style/MyTheme.Progressbar.Horizontal"
/>

Make the size of the progressBar really big (i mean height) and then place it into a frameLayout of the size that you wish your progressBar needs to be.
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="10dp">
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress_bar"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:backgroundTint="#android:color/transparent"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:indeterminateTint="#color/white" />
</FrameLayout>

Here's a simple material horizontal progress bar without adding a file, scaling, or changing the dimension
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:progressTint="Your Progress Color"
android:progressTintMode="src_over"
android:progressBackgroundTint="Your Background Color"
android:backgroundTintMode="src_over"
This works by coloring over the progress or background color presented in Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal