Tablayout with icons only

Question

I am using design support to create tabs. I am also using ViewPager for swipable tabs.

Now, I don\'t know how to use only icons instead of texts in tabs

Answer 1

The tutorial shown in the following link should cover what you want. https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Google-Play-Style-Tabs-using-TabLayout#add-icons-to-tablayout

I copied the relevant section below.

Add Icons to TabLayout

Currently, the TabLayout class does not provide a clean abstraction model that allows for icons in your tab. There are many posted workarounds, one of which is to return a SpannableString, containing your icon in an ImageSpan, from your PagerAdapter's getPageTitle(position) method as shown in the code snippet below:

private int[] imageResId = {
        R.drawable.ic_one,
        R.drawable.ic_two,
        R.drawable.ic_three
};

// ...

@Override
public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
    // Generate title based on item position
    // return tabTitles[position];
    Drawable image = context.getResources().getDrawable(imageResId[position]);
    image.setBounds(0, 0, image.getIntrinsicWidth(), image.getIntrinsicHeight());
    SpannableString sb = new SpannableString(" ");
    ImageSpan imageSpan = new ImageSpan(image, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BOTTOM);
    sb.setSpan(imageSpan, 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    return sb;
}

By default, the tab created by TabLayout sets the textAllCaps property to be true, which prevents ImageSpans from being rendered. You can override this behavior by changing the tabTextAppearance property.