Android sliding tabs - set width of tabs programmatically

Question

With my sliding tabs project, how can I programmatically set the width of the tabs so that they use the whole space of the sliding tab strip and are each equal in width size? I've tried using the code below but the tabs won't stretch as desired.

SlidingTabLayout.java

protected TextView createDefaultTabView(Context context) {
    TextView textView = new TextView(context);
    textView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
    textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, TAB_VIEW_TEXT_SIZE_SP);
    textView.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);
    textView.setTextColor(context.getResources().getColor(R.color.black));
    textView.setWidth(0);

    int padding = (int) (TAB_VIEW_PADDING_DIPS * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);
    textView.setPadding(padding, padding, padding, padding);

    return textView;
}

Text weight error

Answer 1

Add this in your method

WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
Display display = wm.getDefaultDisplay();
Point size = new Point();
display.getSize(size);
textView.setWidth(size.x / count); // Where count is number of textviews

Also if you are supporting older version

Use this

if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR2) 
{ 
    display.getSize(size); 
} 
else 
{ 
    size.set(display.getWidth(), display.getHeight()); 
}

Answer 2

In a update these you can now use,

mSlidingTabLayout.setDistributeEvenly(true);

within the onViewCeated,

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