Is it possible to change actionbar tab indicator programmatically

Question

How can i change programmatically the selected tab indicator of my action bar ? i have read about tab styling, and Tab.setCustomView() method, but none of these helps :

Answer 1

I have succeeded to implement what i wanted by using @Padma's answer to generate my tab indicator backgrounds : i needed 5 selectors : green, yellow, blue, orange and red. So i created 5 xml drawables (tabs_selector_red.xml, tabs_selector_blue.xml, etc...) :

tabs_selector_green.xml :

I also created a layer-list for each xml background : layer_bg_selected_tabs_green.xml

And finally, in the Java, i switch the background dynamically buy using selected tab's custom view and index :

private static final int[] TABS_BACKGROUND = {
        R.drawable.tabs_selector_orange, R.drawable.tabs_selector_green,
        R.drawable.tabs_selector_red, R.drawable.tabs_selector_blue,
        R.drawable.tabs_selector_yellow };
/*
BLA BLA BLA
*/
@Override
public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    RelativeLayout tabLayout = (RelativeLayout) tab.getCustomView();
    tabLayout.setBackgroundResource(TABS_BACKGROUND[tab.getPosition()]);
    tab.setCustomView(tabLayout);
/* ... */
}

Now let's add some screenshots :