I'm learning about tab layout because I need to use tab layout.
When i search for tab layout on Google, the one that comes up together is the view pager.
By the way, I'm not sure about the difference between tablayout and viewpager.
The tab layout has a menu at the top and screen switching is possible.
Although the view pager does not have tabs, it is possible to slide the screen just like the tab layout.
But why use the two together?
What's different?
Isn't it possible to slide in tab layout as well?
Yes, you can use TabLayout without viewPager. But without viewpager you won't be able to slide your page. You have to handle tabselect listener manually using this method then you have to click on the tab to navigate.
addOnTabSelectedListener(OnTabSelectedListener)
Likewise, you can use only Viewpager then you will be able to slide or swipe your page without any tabs.
From official doc
TabLayout
TabLayout provides a horizontal layout to display tabs.
Viewpager
Layout manager that allows the user to flip left and right through pages of data.
So Tablayout and viewpager are two different things but you can have the privilege of both tabs and slide only by combining them.
You can check here for tablaout without viewPager
TabLayout without using ViewPager
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I would like to make a layout that it would be something like this:
A login layout with no toolbar or title bar
A select action layout with toolbar and no tabs
Another layout with toolbar and 3 tabs
and im thinking on how to implement this, how many fragments, activities etc.
I was thinking of having 1 activity full screen and another activity with fragments, toolbar and tab and every time i want a layut with tabs to remove the tabs and in the next screen to add again the tabs.
But after thinking it out it seems like a bad idea.
Should i create a seperate activity with fragments and tabs and navigate around those 3 layouts?
What is the best approach when you want to use tabs and a toolbar but you dont want in all your layouts to have tabs?
You only need 1 Activityand 3 Fragments. In the fragments where you need a toolbar, just use Toolbar view. This is available on Support Library so you will not have problems with older Android versions.
And in the Fragment with the tabs, just use a TabLayout and a ViewPager in order to switch between tabs (each tab is a Fragment).
To be specific I want to animate the tabs and not the ViewPager fragments.
I am having trouble deciding how to build this. Whether to use a separate scrollview or this can be achieved with TabLayout with some customizations.
Goal
Change the size of tab based on selection.
Change the size of tab based on position.
My idea is to use custom tabs & change the size using TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener methods onTabSelected & onTabUnselected. But I would like to know if there is any direct approach to get this effect. For example, parallax effect in CollapsingToolbar.
My question is in my activity or fragment, there are TabLayout and ViewPager. If I was to disable swipe of ViewPager by using a class called NonSwipeableViewPager. Then why should I bother to using ViewPager right from the start, I could have just use TabLayout to add tabs which is much more simpler.
What are the other advantages of using ViewPager even though the primary function of it which is Creating Swipe Views with Tabs is not needed?
Do Fragment layout must use framelayout? Which means can I use relative or liner layout instead of framelayout?
Last but not least, do I allowed to use ViewPager with the swipe disabled?
When using a ViewPager, is there any advantage to using TabLayout instead of PagerTabStrip or vice versa? Or are they equivalent? Is one more convenient than the other? Does one offer greater functionality? Again all questions are asked, and thus all answers are expected, in the context of ViewPager. Thanks.
TabLayout is a material concept that replaced the deprecated ActionBar tabs in Android 5.0.
It extends HorizontalScrollView, so you can keep adding tabs horizontally which can include text, icons, or custom views and scroll through them linearly without paging.
TabLayout provides the setupWithViewPager(ViewPager viewPager) method to attach to a ViewPager instead of being part of the ViewPager like the PagerTabStrip.
A PagerTabStrip is more of an indictor for the current page of a ViewPager, and "it is intended to be used as a child view of a ViewPager widget". The scrolling for it does not act like the TabLayout since each tab is part of the page instead of individually horizontally scrollable.
I've created SwipingTab with two Fragments. Now I want to add menu on bottom to be fixed, static. When user swipe between tabs, that menu should not moving. Where should I create that menu. I tried on main_layout.xml, but cannot. Any suggestion or idea ??
This is how I would set up the main view with tabs
Then the footermenu would inflate a fragment that will be used as a menu. You can follow this Android Tab Layout with Swipeable Views to add swapeable tabs