android.support.design.widget.tablayout Tab Indicator colour

Question

I am using TabLayout and a View Pager to show multiple tabs. I want to change the selected tab indicator. I have used app:tabIndicatorColorbut the colour is not changing. It shows a greenish colour. I have read that by default the tabIndicator colour is set tocolor/accent, however the greenish colour is not my accent colour. My xml is as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@color/primary"
        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:background="@color/primary"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
            app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
            />
        <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
            android:id="@+id/tab_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:tabGravity="fill"
            app:tabIndicatorColor="@android:color/white"
            app:tabSelectedTextColor="@android:color/white"
            app:tabTextColor="@color/primary_light" 
/>
    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/view_pager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" />

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/header_layout"
    app:menu="@menu/menu_drawer"
    />

What am I missing? Image here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/mrhk9.jpg

See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30904138/how-to-change-the-new-tablayout-indicator-color-and-height — Eran Boudjnah, Aug 25 '15 at 20:36
@EranBoudjnah I have already tried that solution. The answer there is exactly my code above. — Anuraag Baishya, Aug 29 '15 at 04:26
Have you tried one of the solutions suggesting you change it programmatically? — Eran Boudjnah, Aug 30 '15 at 08:28

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '15 at 07:56

6

 <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
    android:id="@+id/tabs"
    app:tabGravity="fill"
    app:tabMode="fixed"
    android:background="@color/material_blue_grey_800"
    app:tabIndicatorColor="@color/orange"
    app:tabSelectedTextColor="@color/orange"
    app:tabTextColor="@color/white"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</android.support.design.widget.TabLayout>

It can help You.

 app:tabIndicatorColor="@color/orange"  here is the line which change the color.

answered Dec 07 '15 at 07:56

In case you didn't go through the code originally posted, I have already tried `app:tabIndicatorColor` – Anuraag Baishya Dec 07 '15 at 10:06
What if you want to change gravity of the indicator? – Anshul Tyagi Dec 21 '15 at 10:18

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 09:53

You can try the following customization for your TabLayout,

<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@id/pages_tabs"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    app:tabIndicatorColor="@android:color/white"
    app:tabIndicatorHeight="4dp"/>

This should solve the indicator color!

how can we set it in java? – Syed Raza Mehdi Sep 10 '15 at 10:36 — Syed Raza Mehdi, Sep 10 '15 at 10:36

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 11 '15 at 17:29

According to the source code of TabLayout, the tabTextColor must reference a selector color instead of a single color. This is the part in the source code where it uses getColorStateList:

if (a.hasValue(R.styleable.TabLayout_tabTextColor)) {
    // If we have an explicit text color set, use it instead
    mTabTextColors = a.getColorStateList(R.styleable.TabLayout_tabTextColor);
}

so you should define your colors in file like this for example res/color/your_colors.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/primary_light"/>
    <item android:color="#0000ff"/>
</selector>

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 10 '17 at 12:51

0

you can set color Programmatically like

tabLayout.setSelectedTabIndicatorColor(R.color.black);

answered Jan 10 '17 at 12:51

Rajesh Satvara

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