Android SeekBar set progress value

shiva picture shiva · Mar 20, 2012 · Viewed 72.5k times · Source

I want the SeekBar progress to change whenever I click a button. Using setProgress() works only for initial value. It throws an error if I use it after some changes.

Answer

PFROLIM picture PFROLIM · Mar 29, 2013

Perhaps you should try to use a handler? I use this in an app of mine and works fine.

1) When creating your SeekBar:

// ...
seekBarHandler = new Handler(); // must be created in the same thread that created the SeekBar
seekBar = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.my_seekbar);
// you should define max in xml, but if you need to do this by code, you must set max as 0 and then your desired value. this is because a bug in SeekBar (issue 12945) (don't really checked if it was corrected)
seekBar.setMax(0);
seekBar.setMax(max);
seekBar.setProgress(progress);
// ...

2) When your button is clicked

// ...
seekBarHandler.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        if (seekBar != null) {
            seekBar.setMax(0);
            seekBar.setMax(max);
            seekBar.setProgress(newProgress);
        }
    }
});
// ...