Question

Hey,
I just wrote a horizontal progress bar. The progressbar gets this background resource:

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@android:id/background">
    <inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:drawable="@drawable/progress_bg" />
</item>
<item android:id="@android:id/progress" android:gravity="center">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <corners android:radius="5dip" />
            <solid android:color="#FFF" />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>

This works fine, but the white progress has the same height as the background. But I want the progress to be smaller than the background of the progress bar, since thre background has a boarder that should not overlap.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Answer 1

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#LayerList

You can try adding android:top, android:left,android:right, and android:bottom to the white progress bar item in order to add padding to the bar.

<item android:id="@android:id/progress" android:gravity="center"
    android:top="2dp" android:left="2dp" android:right="2dp" android:bottom="2dp">
    <clip>
        <shape>
            <corners android:radius="5dip" />
            <solid android:color="#FFF" />
        </shape>
    </clip>
</item>