TabLayout tab selection

Question

How should I select a tab in TabLayout programmatically?

 TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tabs);
 tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(viewPager         


        

Answer 1

A bit late but might be a useful solution. I am using my TabLayout directly in my Fragment and trying to select a tab quite early in the Fragment's Lifecycle. What worked for me was to wait until the TabLayout finished drawing its child views by using android.view.View#post method. i.e:

int myPosition = 0;
myFilterTabLayout.post(() -> { filterTabLayout.getTabAt(myPosition).select(); });