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

I am using TabLayout to switch fragments. It works for the most part, except whenever I tried to select a tab programmatically using tab.select(), my TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener would trigger the onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab), which would cause me much grief. I was looking for a way to do programmatic selection without triggering the listener.

So I adapted @kenodoggy 's answer to my use. I was further facing a problem where some of the internal objects would return null (because they weren't created yet, because I was answering onActivityResult() from my fragment, which occurs before onCreate() in the case the activity is singleTask or singleInstance) so I wrote up a detailed if/else sequence which would report the error and fall through without the NullPointerException that would otherwise trigger. I use Timber for logging, if you're not using that substitute with Log.e().

void updateSelectedTabTo(int position) {
    if (tabLayout != null){
        int selected = tabLayout.getSelectedTabPosition();
        if (selected != -1){
            TabLayout.Tab oldTab = tabLayout.getTabAt(0);
            if (oldTab != null){
                View view = oldTab.getCustomView();
                if (view != null){
                    view.setSelected(false);
                }
                else {
                    Timber.e("oldTab customView is null");
                }
            }
            else {
                Timber.e("oldTab is null");
            }
        }
        else {
            Timber.e("selected is -1");
        }
        TabLayout.Tab newTab = tabLayout.getTabAt(position);
        if (newTab != null){
            View view = newTab.getCustomView();
            if (view != null){
                view.setSelected(false);
            }
            else {
                Timber.e("newTab customView is null");
            }
        }
        else {
            Timber.e("newTab is null");
        }
    }
    else {
        Timber.e("tablayout is null");
    }
}

Here, tabLayout is my memory variable bound to the TabLayout object in my XML. And I don't use the scrolling tab feature so I removed that as well.