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

If you are using TabLayout with viewPager than this helps you.You set the tablayout with viewpager in addOnpagelistener.

    viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onPageSelected(int position) {
            tabLayout.getTabAt(position).select();
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {

        }
    });

Answer 2

If you know the index of the tab you want to select, you can do it like so:

TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tabs);
TabLayout.Tab tab = tabLayout.getTabAt(someIndex);
tab.select();

This technique works even if you're using the TabLayout by itself without a ViewPager (which is atypical, and probably bad practice, but I've seen it done).

Answer 3

try this

    new Handler().postDelayed(
            new Runnable(){
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if (i == 1){
                        tabLayout.getTabAt(0).select();
                    } else if (i == 2){
                        tabLayout.getTabAt(1).select();
                    }
                }
            }, 100);

Answer 4

add for your viewpager:

 viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void onPageSelected(int position) {
                array.clear();
                switch (position) {
                    case 1:
                        //like a example
                        setViewPagerByIndex(0);
                        break;
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
            }
        });

//on handler to prevent crash outofmemory

private void setViewPagerByIndex(final int index){
    Application.getInstance().getHandler().post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            viewPager.setCurrentItem(index);
        }
    });
}

Answer 5

You can set TabLayout position using following functions

public void setTab(){
 tabLayout.setScrollPosition(YOUR_SCROLL_INDEX,0,true);
 tabLayout.setSelected(true);
}

Answer 6

If you can't use tab.select() and you don't want to use a ViewPager, you can still programmatically select a tab. If you're using a custom view through TabLayout.Tab setCustomView(android.view.View view) it is simpler. Here's how to do it both ways.

// if you've set a custom view
void updateTabSelection(int position) {
    // get the position of the currently selected tab and set selected to false
    mTabLayout.getTabAt(mTabLayout.getSelectedTabPosition()).getCustomView().setSelected(false);
    // set selected to true on the desired tab
    mTabLayout.getTabAt(position).getCustomView().setSelected(true);
    // move the selection indicator
    mTabLayout.setScrollPosition(position, 0, true);

    // ... your logic to swap out your fragments
}

If you aren't using a custom view then you can do it like this

// if you are not using a custom view
void updateTabSelection(int position) {
    // get a reference to the tabs container view
    LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) mTabLayout.getChildAt(0);
    // get the child view at the position of the currently selected tab and set selected to false
    ll.getChildAt(mTabLayout.getSelectedTabPosition()).setSelected(false);
    // get the child view at the new selected position and set selected to true
    ll.getChildAt(position).setSelected(true);
    // move the selection indicator
    mTabLayout.setScrollPosition(position, 0, true);

    // ... your logic to swap out your fragments
}

Use a StateListDrawable to toggle between selected and unselected drawables or something similar to do what you want with colors and/or drawables.