Supplemental answer
I was originally having trouble getting a reference to the ViewPager from other class methods because the addOnTabSelectedListener made an anonymous inner class, which in turn required the ViewPager variable to be declared final. The solution was to use a class member variable and not use the anonymous inner class.
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
TabLayout tabLayout;
ViewPager viewPager;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tab_layout);
tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Tab 1"));
tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Tab 2"));
tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Tab 3"));
tabLayout.setTabGravity(TabLayout.GRAVITY_FILL);
viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
final PagerAdapter adapter = new PagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager(), tabLayout.getTabCount());
viewPager.setAdapter(adapter);
viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new TabLayout.TabLayoutOnPageChangeListener(tabLayout));
// don't use an anonymous inner class here
tabLayout.addOnTabSelectedListener(tabListener);
}
TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener tabListener = new TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener() {
@Override
public void onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
viewPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());
}
@Override
public void onTabUnselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
}
@Override
public void onTabReselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
}
};
// The view pager can now be accessed here, too.
public void someMethod() {
viewPager.setCurrentItem(0);
}
}