Beamer metropolis theme: How to add smoothbars progress indicators?

Question

Is there a ready way to add the smoothbars subsection progress dots to metropolis?

Alternatively, is there a different minimalist theme that easily incorporates smoothbars? Thx

Answer 1

You could load the miniframes outer theme after the other theme:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{moloch}% modern fork of the metropolis theme
\useoutertheme[subsection=false]{miniframes}
\setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{fg=white, bg=mDarkTeal}

\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{\vskip-0.01cm}{}

\begin{document}

\section{section}   
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{title}
    abc
\end{frame} 
    
\end{document}