Android Tablayout tabs with notification badge like whatsApp

Question

I want to implement notification badge with android.support.design.widget.TabLayout. I had tried my best effort to implement it but fails.

Any help wou

Answer 1

This is an old cuestion, but Its much more simple these days. Im using Kotlin, AndroidX, using the next widget as TabLayout:

com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout

and inside my gradel app file:

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha09'

For setting a simple badge, just write..

yourTabLayout?.getTabAt(currentTabPosition)?.apply{
                        orCreateBadge
                        badge?.isVisible = true
                    }

Then just set isVisible = false to hide, like this:

private fun changeYourTabMethod(newTabPosition : Int) {
    // do some stuff and then hide the badge...
    yourTabLayout?.getTabAt(newTabPosition)?.apply{
        badge?.isVisible = false
    }
}