How to create tab layout in Android?
Tabs are created using the newTab() method of TabLayout class. The title and icon of Tabs are set through setText(int) and setIcon(int) methods of TabListener interface respectively. Tabs of layout are attached over TabLayout using the method addTab(Tab) method.
How to add image in tab layout in android?
Well you can either place an ImageView in your Linearlayout that is each tab, or you can set an drawable as a background for your LinearLayout. If your image will act a background then you will obviously want to add that image as a background and not add an ImageView as a child to your LinearLayout.
What is a tab layout?
TabLayout provides a horizontal layout to display tabs. Population of the tabs to display is done through TabLayout. Tab instances. You create tabs via newTab() . From there you can change the tab's label or icon via TabLayout.