how to change SeekBar color in android? (Programmatically)

To change the color of the Seekbar thumb, create a new style in style.xml

<style name="SeekBarColor"
  parent="Widget.AppCompat.SeekBar"> 
  <item name="colorAccent">@color/your_color</item> 
</style>

Finally in the layout:

<SeekBar
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:theme="@style/SeekBarColor" />

To change the Seekbar progress color, use this in Java Class.

seekBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter("yourcolor", PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

Both these will work for API>16.

Edit

To change SeekBar thumb color by Java code.

 seekBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(getResources().getCo‌​lor(R.color.your_color‌​), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);

While using a style is a good idea, it does not provide much flexibility specially if you want to assign the colors programmatically I suggest:

//for the progress seekBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(mThemeColor,PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP); //for the thumb handle seekBar.getThumb().setColorFilter(mThemeColor, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);

You can easily change it via code,

For example:

seekbar.setProgressTintList(ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.parseColor(#000000)));

or

seekbar.setProgressTintList(ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.RED));

Hoping that it will be helpfull for someone in future.

You can change seekbar thumb and progress colors for programmatically like this:

   seekBar.getProgressDrawable().setColorFilter(Utils.getAccentColor(this), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
   seekBar.getThumb().setColorFilter(Utils.getAccentColor(this), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);