Tabs of TabLayout not showing

Question

I have a main activity, which hosts a fragment, which in turn hosts a TabLayout (with a ViewPager). The tab bar is shown, baut the tabs themselves are not shown.

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Answer 1

like @Nathaniel Ford said，this should a bug, I change to use design library 23.0.1。google fixed it,so change build.gradle to compile 'com.android.support:design:23.0.1'. ps:you also must change your compileSdkVersionto 23

Answer 2

Set tab icons after setupWithViewPager()

private void setTabs {
   tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(viewPager);
   setupTabIcons();
} 

private void setupTabIcons() {
   tabLayout.getTabAt(0).setIcon(tabIcons[0]);
   tabLayout.getTabAt(1).setIcon(tabIcons[1]);
   tabLayout.getTabAt(2).setIcon(tabIcons[2]);
}

Answer 3

None of the other answers worked for me, I tried all of them

However, this one did: TabLayout not showing tabs after adding navigation bar

According to that answer, you have to enclose your TabLayout in a AppBarLayout. Why? Who knows. But at least it works.

Example Code (taken from that post):

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="200dp"
    android:id="@+id/appBarLayout2">


    <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/tabLayout2"
        app:tabMode="fixed"
        app:tabGravity="fill"

        ></android.support.design.widget.TabLayout>

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="300dp"
    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:id="@+id/viewPager2"
    android:layout_below="@+id/appBarLayout2">

</android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>

Answer 4

If you are using android:tabPadding attribute in Tablayout of xml file,remove it.

Answer 5

This fixed it for me:

tabLayout.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(viewPager);
    }
});

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=180462

Answer 6

You can use FragmentStatePagerAdapter instead of FragmentPagerAdapter. It may help you.