How to scroll tablayout programmatically - Android

Question

I have created 30 scrollable tabs using tablayout.

So first three tabs are visible on screen and rest of them are invisible which can be scroll using swipe gesture.

Answer 1

The code snippet below works for me

class TriggerOnceListener(private val v: View, private val block: () -> Unit) : ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener {
    override fun onPreDraw(): Boolean {
        block()
        v.viewTreeObserver.removeOnPreDrawListener(this)
        return true
    }
}

fun onCreate() {
    val position = ***The tab position you want to scroll to, 29 for your case here***
    tabLayout.let { it.viewTreeObserver.addOnPreDrawListener(TriggerOnceListener(it)
    { it.setScrollPosition(position, 0f, true) } ) }
}

I dived into Tab.select(), and found Android uses Tablayout.setScrollPosition() to do this scrolling. And in onCreate() the widgets have not been measured, you need to postpone the call until layout is complete.