Change tab width in ActionBar.Tab
android, android-actionbar, tabs
Solution
Finally I've found the cause, maybe it can help someone...
The error was that my icons were too big to fit into a single tab. Even though they were scaled-down, their calculation size for the Tab width was the original size.
MY solution was to wrap those images with ImageView, and set its width to
ImageWidth = ScreenWidth/NumOfTabs - 2*16dp(Converted to pixels)
The extra 16*2 is for the padding.
In addition, it is possible to disable the padding.
Problem
I'm creating an app with Tab navigation. I display icons instead of text. I want the tabs to only wrap the image, so I won't have to scroll to reach all the tabs. How can I create tabs that just fills the screen? This is how the tabs currently look: You can see I need to scroll... There is another tab that is unseen in this screenshot. This is my code for creating the tabs: ``` final ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); // Create the adapter that will return a fragment for each of the three actionBar.addTab( actionBar.newTab() .setIcon(R.drawable.tabs_bar_add_item) .setContentDescription(TAB_ADD_ITEM) .setTabListener(this) .setCustomView(R.layout.add_item_tab) ); actionBar.addTab( actionBar.newTab() .setIcon(R.drawable.tabs_bar_shopping_list) .setContentDescription(TAB_SHOW_LIST) .setTabListener(this) ); actionBar.addTab( actionBar.newTab() .setIcon(R.drawable.tabs_bar_map) .setContentDescription(TAB_SHOW_MAP) .setTabListener(this) ); actionBar.addTab( actionBar.newTab() .setIcon(R.drawable.tabs_bar_specials) .setContentDescription(TAB_SHOW_SPECIALS) .setTabListener(this) ); ``` The first `R.layout.add_item_tab` is just a simple imageView. I tried it that way... Any ideas?