How to change the star images of the RatingBar?

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Chang Chung picture Chang Chung · Mar 3, 2009 · Viewed 29k times · Source

With Android SDK 1.1 r1, is there any way to change the RatingBar widget class's star image with my own? Is this possible at all? If so, then how?

Thanks.

Answer

kozyr picture kozyr · Feb 7, 2010

Not sure about 1.1, but with 1.6 and later you can just extend Widget.RatingBar style and override the properties that are responsible for star drawables (in values/styles.xml):

 <style name="myRatingBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.RatingBar">
        <item name="android:progressDrawable">@drawable/my_ratingbar_full</item>
        <item name="android:indeterminateDrawable">@drawable/my_ratingbar_full</item>
 </style>

There's no need to subclass RatingBar, just pass this style to it with the 'style' attribute:

<RatingBar style="@style/myRatingBar" ... />

Download android sources and look at the ratingbar_full.xml in the core drawable folder to see what to put into my_ratingbar_full.

You can find a fuller version of this here: How to create Custom Ratings bar in Android

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