Preselect tab in TabLayout with ViewPager2

Question

I have a ViewPager2 and a TabLayout that contains two tabs. How do I select second tab when first entering the page?

EDIT: I managed to select second tab like so: tabLayout.getTabAt(1).select() But I have another problem now, because the page under it is the page that corresponds to the first tab and viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true) doesn't seem to fix it.

See if [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/60933258/13308991) answer fixes your issue. — Arpit Shukla, Nov 17 '21 at 12:51
I tried using `tabLayout.post { tabLayout.getTabAt(1).select() }`, because with view pager was not working, but now I see the first tab being selected and than right after the second tab. — alexC, Nov 17 '21 at 13:21
You mean your are able to see the transition from one page to another? And you want to directly show the second page with no transition? — Arpit Shukla, Nov 17 '21 at 13:33
`viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true)` Pass `false` instead of `true`. This boolean is for `smoothScroll` which we don't want here. — Arpit Shukla, Nov 17 '21 at 13:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '21 at 13:46

2

You can use,

viewPager.post {
  viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, false)
}

Pass false to directly jump to second page instead of a smooth scroll.

answered Nov 17 '21 at 13:46

Arpit Shukla

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