How to set FragmentTabHost tab text color

Question

How to set FragmentTabHost tab text color. I tried the following code but, it didn't work.

((TextView) mTabHost.getCurrentTabView()
                .findViewById(android.R.id.title)).setTextColor(0xFFFFFFFF);

It gives NPE saying it couldn't find the TextView.

Refer this this may useful to you.. [change tab color][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7783157/android-text-and-color-on-tabs-tab-layout — kalyan pvs, Aug 19 '13 at 13:43
Please refer this post : http://stackoverflow.com/a/14853097/874752 — Ramesh Akula, Aug 21 '13 at 04:22

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '13 at 07:29

It was a bit tricky. I used the following code and it worked for me.

for (int i = 0; i < tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildCount(); i++) {

        final TextView tv = (TextView) tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i)
                .findViewById(android.R.id.title);

            // Look for the title view to ensure this is an indicator and not a divider.(I didn't know, it would return divider too, so I was getting an NPE)
        if (tv == null)
            continue;
        else
            tv.setTextColor(0xFFFFFFFF);
}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '13 at 13:43

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let's try this :
for example when you add your tab make your Indicator  : 

    TextView view = ....
    vew.setTextColor(...)

then setIndicator with your custom view :

 mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec("simple").setIndicator(view),
                    FragmentStackSupport.CountingFragment.class, null);

answered Aug 19 '13 at 13:43

Linh Nguyen

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I tried this, but I want the tab layout to be same as default. If I do this, it will remove the native tab background color. – Manjunath Aug 19 '13 at 13:46

How to set FragmentTabHost tab text color

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