Tab not taking full width on Tablet device [Using android.support.design.widget.TabLayout]

Question

I have setup tabs as UPDATE 29/05/2015 this post. Tabs take full width on my Nexus 4 mobile but on nexus 7 tablet it in center and not cover full screen wid

Answer 1

Check below code for solutions.

Below is layout code:

<com.yourpackage.CustomTabLayout
    android:id="@+id/tabs"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@color/off_white"
    app:tabIndicatorColor="@color/primaryColor"
    app:tabIndicatorHeight="3dp"
    app:tabMode="scrollable"
    app:tabPaddingEnd="0dp"
    app:tabPaddingStart="0dp" />

Note, for dynamic tab count, don't forget to call setTabNumbers(tabcount).

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.design.widget.TabLayout;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.
import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public class CustomTabLayout extends TabLayout
{
    private static final int WIDTH_INDEX = 0;
    private int DIVIDER_FACTOR = 3;
    private static final String SCROLLABLE_TAB_MIN_WIDTH = "mScrollableTabMinWidth";

    public CustomTabLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
        initTabMinWidth();
    }

    public CustomTabLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        initTabMinWidth();
    }

    public CustomTabLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        initTabMinWidth();
    }

    public void setTabNumbers(int num)
    {
        this.DIVIDER_FACTOR = num;
        initTabMinWidth();
    }

    private void initTabMinWidth()
    {
        int[] wh = getScreenSize(getContext());
        int tabMinWidth = wh[WIDTH_INDEX] / DIVIDER_FACTOR;

        Log.v("CUSTOM TAB LAYOUT", "SCREEN WIDTH = " + wh[WIDTH_INDEX] + " && tabTotalWidth = " + (tabMinWidth*DIVIDER_FACTOR) + " && TotalTabs = " + DIVIDER_FACTOR);

        Field field;
        try {
            field = TabLayout.class.getDeclaredField(SCROLLABLE_TAB_MIN_WIDTH);
            field.setAccessible(true);
            field.set(this, tabMinWidth);
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static final int WIDTH_INDEX = 0;
    private static final int HEIGHT_INDEX = 1;

    public static int[] getScreenSize(Context context) {
        int[] widthHeight = new int[2];
        widthHeight[WIDTH_INDEX] = 0;
        widthHeight[HEIGHT_INDEX] = 0;

        try {
            WindowManager windowManager = (WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
            Display display = windowManager.getDefaultDisplay();

            Point size = new Point();
            display.getSize(size);
            widthHeight[WIDTH_INDEX] = size.x;
            widthHeight[HEIGHT_INDEX] = size.y;

            if (!isScreenSizeRetrieved(widthHeight))
            {
                DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
                display.getMetrics(metrics);
                widthHeight[0] = metrics.widthPixels;
                widthHeight[1] = metrics.heightPixels;
            }

            // Last defense. Use deprecated API that was introduced in lower than API 13
            if (!isScreenSizeRetrieved(widthHeight)) {
                widthHeight[0] = display.getWidth(); // deprecated
                widthHeight[1] = display.getHeight(); // deprecated
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return widthHeight;
    }

    private static boolean isScreenSizeRetrieved(int[] widthHeight) {
        return widthHeight[WIDTH_INDEX] != 0 && widthHeight[HEIGHT_INDEX] != 0;
    }
}

Reference taken from https://medium.com/@elsenovraditya/set-tab-minimum-width-of-scrollable-tablayout-programmatically-8146d6101efe

Answer 2

In my variant of this problem, I had 3 tabs of moderate size which weren't taking up full width on tablets. I didn't need the tabs to be scrollable on tablets, since tablets are big enough to display the tabs all together without any scrolling. But I did need the tabs to be scrollable on phones, since phones are too small to display all the tabs together.

The best solution in my case was to add a res/layout-sw600dp/main_activity.xml file, where the relevant TabLayout could have app:tabGravity="fill" and app:tabMode="fixed". But in my regular res/layout/main_activity.xml, I left out app:tabGravity="fill" and app:tabMode="fixed", and had app:tabMode="scrollable" instead.

Answer 3

This is helpful you must try

 <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
        android:id="@+id/tabs"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:tabMaxWidth="0dp"
        app:tabGravity="fill"
        app:tabMode="fixed"
        app:tabIndicatorColor="@color/white"
        app:tabSelectedTextColor="@color/white"
        app:tabTextColor="@color/orange" />

Answer 4

Solution for Scrollable (Kotlin)

In xml:

     <com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout
            android:id="@+id/home_tab_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:tabMaxWidth="0dp"
            app:tabMode="scrollable"
            android:fillViewport="true"
            app:tabGravity="fill" />

In Kotlin:

In my case if less than 3 tabs I allocate equal space.

Note: If condition is as per your requirement

        if(list.size <= 3){
          allotEachTabWithEqualWidth(your_tab_layout)
        }

     fun allotEachTabWithEqualWidth(tabLayout: TabLayout) {
        mTabLayout.tabMode=  TabLayout.MODE_FIXED
        val slidingTabStrip = tabLayout.getChildAt(0) as ViewGroup
        for (i in 0 until tabLayout.getTabCount()) {
            val tab = slidingTabStrip.getChildAt(i)
            val layoutParams = tab.layoutParams as LinearLayout.LayoutParams
            layoutParams.weight = 1f
            tab.layoutParams = layoutParams
        }

    }

Answer 5

Why all that hectic work ? Just put app:tabMode="scrollable" in your TabLayout in XML. Thats it.

Answer 6

Please note that you also need to set

  app:tabPaddingStart="-1dp"
  app:tabPaddingEnd="-1dp"

to fill all space