How to change color of Selected Tab

Question

How to change color of tab when its selected, see below screen shot:

i am showing Orange color in ActionBar, in a same way i wanna show orange color in place of ligh

Answer 1

put this function and call it to yout Activity and pass tabhost as a parameter

public static void setTabColor(TabHost tabhost) {

            for (int i = 0; i < tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildCount(); i++) {
                tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i)
                        .setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.header_blank); // unselected
            }
            tabhost.getTabWidget().setCurrentTab(0);
            tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(tabhost.getCurrentTab())
                    .setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.tab_selected_new); // selected
                                                                            // //have
                                                                            // to
                                                                            // change
        }

call this as following way

        setTabColor(tabHost);
        tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void onTabChanged(String arg0) {

                setTabColor(tabHost);
            }
             });

hope this is useful to you

Answer 2

you can use like this

tab_background_select.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_selected="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/tab_background" />// for selected
     <item android:drawable="@drawable/tab" /> // for normal
</selector>

Answer 3

use this code in order to change the color of selected tab:-

tabLayout.setTabTextColors(Color.parseColor("color_for_unselected_tab"), Color.parseColor("color_for_tab"));
for tab-indicator
 tabLayout.setSelectedTabIndicatorColor(Color.parseColor("#627179")));

Answer 4

you can use this code and set the background of your item_tab xml file

tab_selection.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_selected="true" android:state_pressed="false" 
      android:drawable="@drawable/tab_bg_selected" />
<item android:state_selected="false" android:state_pressed="false" 
      android:drawable="@drawable/tab_bg_unselected" />
<item android:state_pressed="true" 
      android:drawable="@drawable/tab_bg_pressed" />
</selector>