How to scroll tablayout programmatically - Android

Question

I have created 30 scrollable tabs using tablayout.

So first three tabs are visible on screen and rest of them are invisible which can be scroll using swipe gesture.

Answer 1

This solution worked for me. My situation is a little bit different though; in my case, I am using the TabLayout with a ViewPager and adding more views and calling notifyDataSetChange().

The solution is to set a callback on the observer of TabLayout and scroll when the children are actually added to the TabLayout. Here is my example:

/**
    Keep in mind this is how I set my TabLayout up...

    PagerAdapter pagerAdapter = new PagerAdapter(...);
    ViewPager pager = (ViewPager)findViewById(...);
    pager.setAdapter(pagerAdapter);

    TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout)findViewById(...);
    tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(pager);
*/
public void loadTabs(String[] topics) {
    animateTabsOpen(); // Irrelevant to solution

    // Removes fragments from ViewPager
    pagerAdapter.clear();

    // Adds new fragments to ViewPager
    for (String t : topics)
         pagerAdapter.append(t, new TestFragment());

    // Since we need observer callback to still animate tabs when we
    // scroll, it is essential to keep track of the state. Declare this
    // as a global variable
    scrollToFirst = true;

    // Alerts ViewPager data has been changed
    pagerAdapter.notifyOnDataSetChanged();

    // Scroll to the beginning (or any position you need) in TabLayout
    // using its observer callbacks
    tabs.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            /**
                 We use onGlobalLayout() callback because anytime a tab
                 is added or removed the TabLayout triggers this; therefore,
                 we use it to scroll to the desired position we want. In my
                 case I wanted to scroll to the beginning position, but this
                 can easily be modified to scroll to any position.
             */
            if (scrollToFirst) {
                tabs.getTabAt(0).select();
                tabs.scrollTo(0, 0);
                scrollToFirst = false;
            }
        }
    });
}

Here is my code for the PagerAdapter if you need it too lol:

public class PagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {
    private List fragments;
    private List titles;


    public PagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
        this.fragments = new ArrayList<>();
        this.titles = new ArrayList<>();
    }

    /**
     * Adds an adapter item (title and fragment) and
     * doesn't notify that data has changed.
     *
     * NOTE: Remember to call notifyDataSetChanged()!
     * @param title Fragment title
     * @param frag Fragment
     * @return This
     */
    public PagerAdapter append(String title, Fragment frag) {
        this.titles.add(title);
        this.fragments.add(frag);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Clears all adapter items and doesn't notify that data
     * has changed.
     *
     * NOTE: Rememeber to call notifyDataSetChanged()!
     * @return This
     */
    public PagerAdapter clear() {
        this.titles.clear();
        this.fragments.clear();
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return fragments.get(position);
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
        return titles.get(position);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return fragments.size();
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
        int position = fragments.indexOf(object);
        return (position >= 0) ? position : POSITION_NONE;
    }
}