If you want to style android Widget.MaterialComponents. TabLayout you can customize style with different properties changing tab text color can be done with property <item name="tabTextColor">@color/red</item> changing tab selected text color with property <item name="tabSelectedTextColor">@color/black</item> updating height of the underline below tab can be done using <item name="tabIndicatorHeight">2dp</item> changing the underline color in the bottom of the text of the tab can be done using property <item name="tabIndicatorColor">@color/red</item> If you want multiple tabs and you want them to be scrollable can be done using <item name="tabMode">scrollable</item>    you can set tabMode fixed where it can displays all tabs with divided equally If you have Icon with text for your tab you can set app:tabInlineLabel property setting false label will be below icon , true will sh