Android TabLayout Android Design
I had to collect information from various sources to put together a functioning TabLayout. The following is presented as a complete use case that can be modified as needed.
Make sure the module build.gradle file contains a dependency on com.android.support:design.
dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1'
}
In my case, I am creating an About activity in the application with a TabLayout. I added the following section to AndroidMainifest.xml. Setting the parentActivityName allows the home arrow to take the user back to the main activity.
<!-- android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize" makes the activity not reload when the orientation changes. -->
<activity
android:name=".AboutActivity"
android:label="@string/about_app"
android:theme="@style/MyApp.About"
android:parentActivityName=".MainActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize" >
<!-- android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY is necessary for API <= 15. -->
<meta-data
android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
android:value=".MainActivity" />
</activity>
styles.xml contains the following entries. This app has a white AppBar for the main activity and a blue AppBar for the About activity. We need to set colorPrimaryDark for the About activity so that the status bar above the AppBar is blue.
<style name="MyApp" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorAccent">@color/blue</item>
</style>
<style name="MyApp.About" />
<!-- ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" makes the text and the icons in the AppBar white. -->
<style name="MyApp.DarkAppBar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />
<style name="MyApp.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar" />
<style name="MyApp.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
There is also a styles.xml (v19). It is located at src/main/res/values-v19/styles.xml. This file is only applied if the API of the device is >= 19.
<!-- android:windowTranslucentStatus requires API >= 19. It makes the system status bar transparent.
When it is specified the root layout should include android:fitsSystemWindows="true".
colorPrimaryDark goes behind the status bar, which is then darkened by the overlay. -->
<style name="MyApp.About">
<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/blue</item>
</style>
AboutActivity.java contains the following code. In my case I have a fixed number of tabs (7) so I could remove all the code dealing with dynamic tabs.
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.design.widget.TabLayout;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
public class AboutActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.about_coordinatorlayout);
// We need to use the SupportActionBar from android.support.v7.app.ActionBar until the minimum API is >= 21.
Toolbar supportAppBar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.about_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(supportAppBar);
// Display the home arrow on supportAppBar.
final ActionBar appBar = getSupportActionBar();
assert appBar != null;// This assert removes the incorrect warning in Android Studio on the following line that appBar might be null.
appBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
// Setup the ViewPager.
ViewPager aboutViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.about_viewpager);
assert aboutViewPager != null; // This assert removes the incorrect warning in Android Studio on the following line that aboutViewPager might be null.
aboutViewPager.setAdapter(new aboutPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager()));
// Setup the TabLayout and connect it to the ViewPager.
TabLayout aboutTabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.about_tablayout);
assert aboutTabLayout != null; // This assert removes the incorrect warning in Android Studio on the following line that aboutTabLayout might be null.
aboutTabLayout.setupWithViewPager(aboutViewPager);
}
public class aboutPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
public aboutPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
super(fm);
}
@Override
// Get the count of the number of tabs.
public int getCount() {
return 7;
}
@Override
// Get the name of each tab. Tab numbers start at 0.
public CharSequence getPageTitle(int tab) {
switch (tab) {
case 0:
return getString(R.string.version);
case 1:
return getString(R.string.permissions);
case 2:
return getString(R.string.privacy_policy);
case 3:
return getString(R.string.changelog);
case 4:
return getString(R.string.license);
case 5:
return getString(R.string.contributors);
case 6:
return getString(R.string.links);
default:
return "";
}
}
@Override
// Setup each tab.
public Fragment getItem(int tab) {
return AboutTabFragment.createTab(tab);
}
}
}
AboutTabFragment.java is used to populate each tab. In my case, the first tab has a LinearLayout inside of a ScrollView and all the others have a WebView as the root layout.
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class AboutTabFragment extends Fragment {
private int tabNumber;
// AboutTabFragment.createTab stores the tab number in the bundle arguments so it can be referenced from onCreate().
public static AboutTabFragment createTab(int tab) {
Bundle thisTabArguments = new Bundle();
thisTabArguments.putInt("Tab", tab);
AboutTabFragment thisTab = new AboutTabFragment();
thisTab.setArguments(thisTabArguments);
return thisTab;
}
@Override
public void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Store the tab number in tabNumber.
tabNumber = getArguments().getInt("Tab");
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View tabLayout;
// Load the about tab layout. Tab numbers start at 0.
if (tabNumber == 0) {
// Setting false at the end of inflater.inflate does not attach the inflated layout as a child of container.
// The fragment will take care of attaching the root automatically.
tabLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.about_tab_version, container, false);
} else { // load a WebView for all the other tabs. Tab numbers start at 0.
// Setting false at the end of inflater.inflate does not attach the inflated layout as a child of container.
// The fragment will take care of attaching the root automatically.
tabLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.about_tab_webview, container, false);
WebView tabWebView = (WebView) tabLayout;
switch (tabNumber) {
case 1:
tabWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/about_permissions.html");
break;
case 2:
tabWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/about_privacy_policy.html");
break;
case 3:
tabWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/about_changelog.html");
break;
case 4:
tabWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/about_license.html");
break;
case 5:
tabWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/about_contributors.html");
break;
case 6:
tabWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/about_links.html");
break;
default:
break;
}
}
return tabLayout;
}
}
about_coordinatorlayout.xml is as follows:
<!-- android:fitsSystemWindows="true" moves the AppBar below the status bar.
When it is specified the theme should include <item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
to make the status bar a transparent, darkened overlay. -->
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
android:id="@+id/about_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:fitsSystemWindows="true" >
<!-- the LinearLayout with orientation="vertical" moves the ViewPager below the AppBarLayout. -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<!-- We need to set android:background="@color/blue" here or any space to the right of the TabLayout on large devices will be white. -->
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:id="@+id/about_appbarlayout"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="@color/blue"
android:theme="@style/MyApp.AppBarOverlay" >
<!-- android:theme="@style/PrivacyBrowser.DarkAppBar" makes the text and icons in the AppBar white. -->
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/about_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@color/blue"
android:theme="@style/MyApp.DarkAppBar"
app:popupTheme="@style/MyApp.PopupOverlay" />
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
android:id="@+id/about_tablayout"
xmlns:android.support.design="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android.support.design:tabBackground="@color/blue"
android.support.design:tabTextColor="@color/light_blue"
android.support.design:tabSelectedTextColor="@color/white"
android.support.design:tabIndicatorColor="@color/white"
android.support.design:tabMode="scrollable" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<!-- android:layout_weight="1" makes about_viewpager fill the rest of the screen. -->
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="@+id/about_viewpager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
about_tab_version.xml is as follows:
<!-- The ScrollView allows the LinearLayout to scroll if it exceeds the height of the page. -->
<ScrollView
android:id="@+id/about_version_scrollview"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/about_version_linearlayout"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="16dp" >
<!-- Include whatever content you want in this tab here. -->
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
And about_tab_webview.xml:
<!-- This WebView displays inside of the tabs in AboutActivity. -->
<WebView
android:id="@+id/about_tab_webview"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
There are also entries in strings.xml
<string name="about_app">About App</string>
<string name="version">Version</string>
<string name="permissions">Permissions</string>
<string name="privacy_policy">Privacy Policy</string>
<string name="changelog">Changelog</string>
<string name="license">License</string>
<string name="contributors">Contributors</string>
<string name="links">Links</string>
And colors.xml
<color name="blue">#FF1976D2</color>
<color name="light_blue">#FFBBDEFB</color>
<color name="white">#FFFFFFFF</color>
src/main/assets contains the HTML files referenced in AboutTabFragemnt.java.
I've just managed to setup new TabLayout, so here are the quick steps to do this (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
Add dependencies inside your build.gradle file:
dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1' }Add TabLayout inside your layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="vertical"> <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"/> <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout android:id="@+id/tab_layout" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager android:id="@+id/pager" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"/> </LinearLayout>Setup your Activity like this:
import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.design.widget.TabLayout; import android.support.v4.app.Fragment; import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager; import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter; import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar; public class TabLayoutActivity extends AppCompatActivity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_pull_to_refresh); Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tab_layout); ViewPager viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager); if (toolbar != null) { setSupportActionBar(toolbar); } viewPager.setAdapter(new SectionPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager())); tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(viewPager); } public class SectionPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter { public SectionPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) { super(fm); } @Override public Fragment getItem(int position) { switch (position) { case 0: return new FirstTabFragment(); case 1: default: return new SecondTabFragment(); } } @Override public int getCount() { return 2; } @Override public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) { switch (position) { case 0: return "First Tab"; case 1: default: return "Second Tab"; } } } }