A Material Design ProgressBar library for Android 4.0+ with consistent appearance and correct tinting across platforms.
MaterialProgressBar is an Android library that provides Material Design-styled progress bars with consistent appearance across Android 4.0 and higher. It fixes platform inconsistencies in the native Android ProgressBar, particularly around tinting and visual behavior, ensuring a uniform experience on all supported devices.
Android developers building apps that need consistent Material Design progress indicators across Android 4.0+ devices, especially those targeting multiple Android versions or dealing with manufacturer-specific UI inconsistencies.
Developers choose MaterialProgressBar because it provides reliable, consistent Material Design progress bars that work correctly across all Android 4.0+ devices, fixing the tinting and appearance bugs present in various platform implementations while maintaining easy integration as a drop-in replacement.
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance
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Ensures uniform Material Design progress bars on Android 4.0+ devices, fixing native bugs like tinting failures on Samsung devices, as shown in the README's screenshot comparisons.
Provides control over padding, background visibility, and progress styles via attributes like app:mpb_useIntrinsicPadding and app:mpb_showProgressBackground, allowing tailored layouts.
Can replace framework ProgressBar with minimal code changes, supporting both widget usage and direct drawable setting, as demonstrated in the sample app layouts.
Backports Material Design drawables to Android 4.0, enabling modern progress indicators on older platforms without relying on deprecated libraries like NineOldAndroids.
Requires applying specific styles from the library for correct sizing and using custom attributes for full functionality, adding complexity compared to standard ProgressBar usage.
Only provides progress bars, so developers must integrate additional libraries for other Material Design components, increasing dependency management effort.
Options like app:mpb_setBothDrawables default to false for performance, and direct drawable usage on APIs < 18 requires workarounds, as noted in the README's canvas limitation section.