Disable swiping between tabs

Accepted Answer's AndroidX and Kotlin Version:

ViewPager with paging disabled all the time

package your.packg.name //CustomViewPager's location actually

import android.content.Context
import android.util.AttributeSet
import android.view.MotionEvent
import androidx.viewpager.widget.ViewPager

class CustomViewPager(
    context: Context?,
    attrs: AttributeSet?
) :
    ViewPager(context!!, attrs) {
    override fun onTouchEvent(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        return false
    }

    override fun onInterceptTouchEvent(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        return false
    }
}

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ViewPager with paging switchable to on or off at anytime.

package your.packg.name //CustomViewPager's location actually

import android.content.Context
import android.util.AttributeSet
import android.view.MotionEvent
import androidx.viewpager.widget.ViewPager

class CustomViewPager(
    context: Context?,
    attrs: AttributeSet?
) :
    ViewPager(context!!, attrs) {
    var isPagingEnabled = false   //Modify this in code for switch

    override fun onTouchEvent(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        return isPagingEnabled && super.onTouchEvent(event)
    }

    override fun onInterceptTouchEvent(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        return isPagingEnabled && super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event)
    }
}

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Lastly, find ViewPager line in XML file and modify according to your CustomViewPager location, i.e.:

<your.packg.name.CustomViewPager ...

This answer can be applied to any ViewPager actually no matter what is the library you are using to implement the tabs or even a normal ViewPager without tabs.

The library you are using neokree/MaterialTabs is backed with a ViewPager that is responsible for the swiping effect and you can disable that by using the new ViewPager2 or providing your own custom ViewPager.

import android.annotation.SuppressLint
import android.content.Context
import android.util.AttributeSet
import android.view.MotionEvent
import androidx.viewpager.widget.ViewPager

class CustomViewPager(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet) : ViewPager(context, attrs) {

    var isPagingEnabled: Boolean = true

    @SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")
    override fun onTouchEvent(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        return isPagingEnabled && super.onTouchEvent(event)
    }

    override fun onInterceptTouchEvent(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        return isPagingEnabled && super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event)
    }
}

This class provides a ViewPager that is swiping enabled and you can turn it off by viewPager.isPagingEnabled = false

No to mention that you have to change the XML layout to your new custom ViewPager rather than the original one.

<androidx.viewpager.widget.ViewPager 
   ...
   />

to

<my.package.CustomViewPager 
   ...
   />

Kotlin:

Using ViewPager2...

viewPager.isUserInputEnabled = false

Swiping between tab is disabled and the user can still tap tabs at the top to go between tabs.

Documentation on isUserInputEnabled

The simplest way is to setOnTouchListener and return true for ViewPager.

original answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13392198/4293813