How to change selected Tab Text color using TabLayout from code in Android?

It's so simple using XML. Just add the following 2 attributes in your tab layout.

app:tabSelectedTextColor="@color/color_primary_text"app:tabTextColor="@color/color_secondary_text"

So, your code would look something like this.

<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout    android:id="@+id/tab_layout"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"    android:layout_gravity="bottom"    android:background="@color/button_background"    android:fillViewport="true"    app:tabBackground="@drawable/fixed_bottom_button"    app:tabIndicatorColor="@color/color_primary_text"    app:tabMode="fixed"    app:tabSelectedTextColor="@color/color_primary_text"    app:tabTextColor="@color/color_secondary_text" />

If you are using the design support library add this code to your tab activity.

tabLayout.setSelectedTabIndicatorColor(Color.parseColor("#FF0000"));tabLayout.setSelectedTabIndicatorHeight((int) (5 * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density));tabLayout.setTabTextColors(Color.parseColor("#727272"), Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));

This will set the tab text color as well as tab indicator color in your tab activity.

Please check out following answer

 tabLayout.addOnTabSelectedListener(new TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener() {        @Override        public void onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {            View view = tab.getCustomView();            RelativeLayout relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.layout_background);            relativeLayout.setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getActivity(), R.color.white));            TypefacedTextView selectedText = (TypefacedTextView) view.findViewById(R.id.txt_tab_name);            selectedText.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getActivity(), R.color.colorPrimary));        }        @Override        public void onTabUnselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {            View view = tab.getCustomView();            RelativeLayout relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.layout_background);            relativeLayout.setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getActivity(), R.color.colorPrimary));            TypefacedTextView selectedText = (TypefacedTextView) view.findViewById(R.id.txt_tab_name);            selectedText.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getActivity(), R.color.white));        }        @Override        public void onTabReselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {        }    });

where tabLayout is object of TabLayout Class