Disable TabLayout

Question

I'm using the new class provided by the design library : TabLayout. And I want in specific cases that the one I'm using can't change tab anymore.

I manage to disable swipe on its viewpager but I can't figure out how to disable the change of page by clicking on tabs.

Thank's in advance.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I solved it disabling touch event on tabs with the following code:

  LinearLayout tabStrip = ((LinearLayout)mTabLayout.getChildAt(0));
    for(int i = 0; i < tabStrip.getChildCount(); i++) {
        tabStrip.getChildAt(i).setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                return true;
            }
        });
    }

Answer 2

I found a similar answer that is a little more simple and also allows you to re-enable the tabs later if you wanted to without having to deal with overriding the onTouch event.

TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout)  mParentView.findViewById(R.id.my_tabs);

LinearLayout tabStrip = ((LinearLayout)tabLayout.getChildAt(0));
tabStrip.setEnabled(false);
for(int i = 0; i < tabStrip.getChildCount(); i++) {
    tabStrip.getChildAt(i).setClickable(false);
}

And if you want to re-enable the tabs just set tabStrip.setEnabled and setClickable for the child elements to true

LinearLayout tabStrip = ((LinearLayout)tabLayout.getChildAt(0));
tabStrip.setEnabled(true);
for(int i = 0; i < tabStrip.getChildCount(); i++) {
    tabStrip.getChildAt(i).setClickable(true);
}

Answer 3

Very similar to the answer by pat8719 but just disabling the tabs is sufficient to prevent them from being selected.

TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout)  mParentView.findViewById(R.id.my_tabs);
TabLayoutUtils.enableTabs( tabLayout, false );

TabLayoutUtils class

public class TabLayoutUtils {

    public static void enableTabs(TabLayout tabLayout, Boolean enable){
        ViewGroup viewGroup = getTabViewGroup(tabLayout);
        if (viewGroup != null)
            for (int childIndex = 0; childIndex < viewGroup.getChildCount(); childIndex++)
            {
                View tabView = viewGroup.getChildAt(childIndex);
                if ( tabView != null)
                    tabView.setEnabled(enable);
            }
    }

    public static View getTabView(TabLayout tabLayout, int position){
        View tabView = null;
        ViewGroup viewGroup = getTabViewGroup(tabLayout);
        if (viewGroup != null && viewGroup.getChildCount() > position)
            tabView = viewGroup.getChildAt(position);

        return tabView;
    }

    private static ViewGroup getTabViewGroup(TabLayout tabLayout){
        ViewGroup viewGroup = null;

        if (tabLayout != null && tabLayout.getChildCount() > 0 ) {
            View view = tabLayout.getChildAt(0);
            if (view != null && view instanceof ViewGroup)
                viewGroup = (ViewGroup) view;
        }
        return viewGroup;
    }

}