How to get current selected tab index in TabLayout?

Question

When I use ActionBar tabs, I use this code.

private int getCurrentTabIndex() {
    ActionBar actionBar = activity.getSupportActionBar();
    ActionBar.Tab selectedTab = actionBar.getSelectedTab();
    if(selectedTab == null){
        return 0;
    }

    return selectedTab.getPosition();
}

But how can I do it using TabLayout?

int tab_position=tabLayout.getSelectedTabPosition(); same can be achieved without overriding ,I have tried it with targetSDK=24 — Swanand Keskar, Jul 08 '16 at 14:57

score 81 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 02 '17 at 16:24

81

Use OnTabSelectedListener.

And then in this listener get the getPosition().

Something like this:

tabLayout.setOnTabSelectedListener(new TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener(){
    @Override
    public void onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab){
        int position = tab.getPosition();
    }
});

UPDATE

This method setOnTabSelectedListener() is deprecated . Use addOnTabSelectedListener(OnTabSelectedListener)

edited Oct 02 '17 at 16:24

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answered Jul 01 '15 at 23:05

JARP

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Note that if you are using [setupWithViewPager()](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/TabLayout.html#setupWithViewPager(android.support.v4.view.ViewPager)) you should extend [TabLayout.ViewPagerOnTabSelectedListener](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/TabLayout.ViewPagerOnTabSelectedListener.html) instead of `TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener` and make sure to call it after `setupWithViewPager()` if you want to default integration with `ViewPager` functionality. – ianhanniballake Jul 01 '15 at 23:36
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`setOnTabSelectedListener()` is now deprecated. – ban-geoengineering Nov 09 '16 at 02:53
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This method `setOnTabSelectedListener()` is deprecated . Use `addOnTabSelectedListener(OnTabSelectedListener)` instead. – Badr Feb 20 '17 at 20:49
onTabSelected is called with default value 0 after recreation, how can I save the last selected tab? – yozhik Apr 17 '18 at 07:48

score 38 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 17 '17 at 13:16

setOnTabSelectedListener is now deprecated. you can use addOnTabSelectedListener instead. To remove the listener you can use removeOnTabSelectedListener

 mTabLayout.addOnTabSelectedListener(new TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
            int position = tab.getPosition();
        }

        @Override
        public void onTabUnselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onTabReselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
        }
    });

score 32 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 15 '19 at 14:59

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You can simply do it by calling getSelectedTabPosition() on your TabLayout instance like:

int tab_position=tabLayout.getSelectedTabPosition();

and in Kotlin

val tabPosition = mTabLayout.selectedTabPosition

edited Dec 15 '19 at 14:59

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answered Jul 08 '16 at 14:58

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if you want the actual Tab `tabLayout.getTabAt(layout.selectedTabPosition)` – lasec0203 Nov 25 '20 at 02:02

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 22 '16 at 16:47

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if you are using tabs with viewpager then the asked task could be done as follows:

use the following code after tabLayout.setUpWithViewPager(viewPager)

tabLayout.setOnTabSelectedListener(new TabLayout.ViewPagerOnTabSelectedListener(viewPager) {
        @Override
        public void onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
        switch(tab.getPosition()){
            // do something here
        }
        super.onTabSelected(tab);
    }
});

answered Jul 22 '16 at 16:47

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setOnTabSelectedListener is now deprecated, you can use addOnTabSelectedListener. see reply of Doron http://stackoverflow.com/a/38094050/1970301 – pask23 Mar 23 '17 at 12:17

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 13 '18 at 15:33

If you are using TabLayout inside ViewPager (and initializing it with setupWithViewPager()), you can do it using ViewPager instance.

    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_view_pager_tabs, container, false);
    ViewPager viewPager = view.findViewById(R.id.view_pager_tabs);
    viewPager.setAdapter(pagerAdapter);
    TabLayout tabLayout = viewPager.findViewById(R.id.tab_layout);
    tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(viewPager);
    int item = viewPager.getCurrentItem(); // get
    viewPager.setCurrentItem(item, true);  // set

How to get current selected tab index in TabLayout?

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