Android Tab Text color

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Android: Change Tab Text Color Programmatically

How can we change the text color in android tab.

The text color of what? You can use android:textColor on a TextView to set the color of text. A Tab must contain other views. — Robby Pond, Mar 01 '11 at 13:57

score 34 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '11 at 09:06

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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"

answered Sep 13 '11 at 09:06

isneesh

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This solution is much cleaner than the other posted solution – Brian Bauman Oct 06 '11 at 15:14
its working, this post is simple and state forward and its saved my time,thank you. – Ravikumar11 Mar 20 '13 at 09:36

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '11 at 14:02

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"))

ColorStateList is the better way – aelam Aug 05 '13 at 02:12 — aelam, Aug 05 '13 at 02:12

Android Tab Text color

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