Android - displaying text in center of progress bar

Question

I have already made a horizontal progress bar and it works perfectly. I would like to display a textview or something similar right in the middle of it showing a countdown as the bar is loading. Keep in mind its not a progress dialog, progress bar resides inside an activity and shows a countdown timer. Can anyone help me out, whats the best way to do this and how can I accomplish this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18410984/android-displaying-text-in-center-of-progress-bar

Answer 1

If your ProgressBar and TextView are inside a RelativeLayout you can give the ProgressBar an id, and then align the TextView with the ProgressBar using that. It should then show on top of the ProgressBar. Make sure the background is transparent so that you can still see the ProgressBar

For example:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >
    <ProgressBar
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        // other attributes
        android:id="@+id/PROGRESS_BAR"
    >
    <TextView
        android:background="#00000000" // transparent
        // other attributes
        android:layout_alignLeft="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
        android:layout_alignTop="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
        android:layout_alignRight="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@id/PROGRESS_BAR"
    >
</RelativeLayout>