How to make tablayout text size equal?

Question

Here is what I did: I created a style for the text

<!-- Change tab text appearance -->
    <style name="MyCustomTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Tab">
        <item name="textAllCaps">false</item>
        <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/CustomTabWidgetText</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTabWidgetText"
        parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget">
        <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
    </style>

then I set it to my tablayout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".activity.HomeActivity"
    tools:showIn="@layout/app_bar_main">


    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:titleTextColor="#ffffff"
        />


    <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
        android:id="@+id/tab_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/toolbar"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:tabSelectedTextColor="#ffffff"
        app:tabTextAppearance="@style/MyCustomTextAppearance"
        app:tabTextColor="#ffffff" />

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/pager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_below="@id/tab_layout" />

</RelativeLayout>

Here is the result:

As you can see, the "D-day complete" text is smaller than others. I have request to make its size equal to others but I dont know how. Please help me, thanks.

Answer 1

You can try to set padding in TabLayout (app:tabPaddingStart="-1dp", app:tabPaddingEnd="-1dp")

like

<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
        android:id="@+id/tab_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/toolbar"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:tabSelectedTextColor="#ffffff"
        app:tabTextAppearance="@style/MyCustomTextAppearance"
        app:tabTextColor="#ffffff" 
        app:tabPaddingStart="-1dp"
        app:tabPaddingEnd="-1dp"/>

It helped me)

Answer 2

Per this post, this worked really well for me:

    <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
       android:id="@+id/tab_layout"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       app:tabMode="scrollable"
       app:tabGravity="fill"
       app:tabIndicatorHeight="5dp"
    />

The tabMode and tabGravity attributes did the trick. This lets the labels span as long as need be and scroll like so: