Thursday, January 3, 2013

11 How to create custom RatingBar in Android


A RatingBar is an extension of SeekBar and ProgressBar that shows a rating in stars. The user can touch/drag or use arrow keys to set the rating when using the default size RatingBar.

In this tutorial, we show you how to create custom RatingBar and use it in Android.  

Here is a result of this tutorial:

Android Custom RatingBar


This project is developed in Eclipse 4.2.0.

1. Make main layout with some components.


<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:gravity="center">
        <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
        android:text="Rate 5 star for RatingBar"  
            />
        <RatingBar
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="50dp"
           android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
           style="@style/StarRatingBar"
           android:id="@+id/ratingbar_default"
           />  
        <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="show state up checkbox"
        android:textColor="#CC00CC"
        android:textSize="20dp"
        /> 
</LinearLayout> 

By default the RatingBar have 5 stars icon to set the rating value and the step size default is 0.5. These default can be change by add some android attributes in xml layout like:

        android:numStars="4"
        android:stepSize="1.0"

We custom RatingBar by define a new style for it

<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light" />
        <style name="StarRatingBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.RatingBar">
        <item name="android:progressDrawable">@drawable/star_rating_bar_full</item>
        <item name="android:minHeight">48dip</item>
        <item name="android:maxHeight">48dip</item>
    </style>
</resources>

Create star_rating_bar_full.xml in drawable folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+android:id/background"
          android:drawable="@drawable/star_ratingbar_full_empty" />
    <item android:id="@+android:id/secondaryProgress"
          android:drawable="@drawable/star_ratingbar_full_empty" />
    <item android:id="@+android:id/progress"
          android:drawable="@drawable/star_ratingbar_full_filled" />
</layer-list>

res/drawable/star_ratingbar_empty.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- This is the rating bar drawable that is used to
 show a filled star. -->
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true"
      android:state_window_focused="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/star2" />
<item android:state_focused="true"
      android:state_window_focused="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/star2" />
<item android:state_selected="true"
      android:state_window_focused="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/star2" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/star2" />
</selector>

res/drawable/star_ratingbar_fillled.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true"
      android:state_window_focused="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/star3" />
<item android:state_focused="true"
      android:state_window_focused="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/star1" />
<item android:state_selected="true"
      android:state_window_focused="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/star1" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/star1" />
</selector>

2. Code

2.1. When User click on RatingBar the selected rating value will be displayed in the textview

ratingBar_default.setOnRatingBarChangeListener(new RatingBar.OnRatingBarChangeListener(){
    @Override
    public void onRatingChanged(RatingBar ratingBar, float rating,
           boolean fromUser) {
           // TODO Auto-generated method stub
           text.setText("Rating: "+String.valueOf(rating));
}});

2.2. And if user clicks on the button, the value of RatingBar will set by 5 stars.

final Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
     public void onClick(View v) {
       ratingBar_default.setRating(5);
       text.setText("Rating: "+String.valueOf(ratingBar_default.getRating())); 
     }
});

3.DEMO
3.1. Click on RatingBar

Android Custom RatingBar

3.2. Click on Button

Android Custom RatingBar
  
You can download all source code of this tutorial at here
Reference: http://kozyr.zydako.net/2010/05/23/pretty-ratingbar/

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