I was trying to implement Toolbar and TabLayout using google design library by referring to [http://blog.grafixartist.com/material-design-tabs-with-android-design-support-li
If the top layout parent in activity_main.xml is not a CoordinatorLayout (is there FrameLayout or RelativeLayout?) there may be some wrong different overlap depending on API version.
Change top layout parent to a CoordinatorLayout and it will work everywhere.