Android Tab Text color [duplicate]

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Android: Change Tab Text Color Programmatically

How can we change the text color in android tab.

Answer 1

You can use following code

    TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();
for(int i=0;i<tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildCount();i++) 
        { 
            TextView tv = (TextView) tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i).findViewById(android.R.id.title); //Unselected Tabs
            tv.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));
        } 
        TextView tv = (TextView) tabhost.getCurrentTabView().findViewById(android.R.id.title); //for Selected Tab
        tv.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000"))

Answer 2

I use the ColorStateList, find it more elegant. Here is an example :

tab_text.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_selected="true" android:color="@color/tab_active" />
    <item android:state_selected="false" android:color="@color/tab_inactive" />
</selector>

In your TextView, just set the textColor to point to this file with :

android:textColor="@color/tab_text"