Question Detail

How to create app bar with icons using TabLayout Android Design?

6 years ago Views 1303 Visit Post Reply

I'm trying to use the new TabLayout in the android design library to create app bar with icons.

public void setupTabLayout(TabLayout tabLayout) {
    tabLayout.setTabMode(TabLayout.MODE_SCROLLABLE);
    tabLayout.setTabGravity(TabLayout.GRAVITY_CENTER);
    tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(mViewpager);
    tabLayout.getTabAt(0).setIcon(R.drawable.ic_tabbar_library);
    tabLayout.getTabAt(1).setIcon(R.drawable.ic_tabbar_recents);
    tabLayout.getTabAt(2).setIcon(R.drawable.ic_tabbar_favorites);
    tabLayout.getTabAt(3).setIcon(R.drawable.ic_tabbar_notifications);
    tabLayout.getTabAt(4).setIcon(R.drawable.ic_tabbar_settings);
}

Result:

app bar with icons

Please help me to create app bar similar:

app bar with icons

Sorry my english is not good.Thanks is advance !


Thread Reply

Anonymous

- 6 years ago

From the documentation :

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/TabLayout.Tab.html#setCustomView(android.view.View)

Set a custom view to be used for this tab. This overrides values set by setText(CharSequence) and setIcon(Drawable).

you will have to set the title values yourself

From your example:

public void setupTabLayout(TabLayout tabLayout) {
    tabLayout.setTabMode(TabLayout.MODE_SCROLLABLE);
    tabLayout.setTabGravity(TabLayout.GRAVITY_CENTER);
    tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(mViewpager);

    TextView tab = (TextView) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.custom_tab, null);
    tab.setText("Library");
    tab.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(0, R.drawable.ic_tabbar_library, 0, 0);
    tabLayout.getTabAt(0).setCustomView(tab);
    //..
}

custom_tab.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/tab" />