Flutter Tabbarview underline color

Question

How to add underline to unselected tabs, like this:

https://ibb.co/mfkzKp

Here you can see it is gray colour for unselected tabs, and blue for selected.

Answer 1

I haven't found any reference in the documentation about how to customize disabled indicator. However, you can build your own widget that will take additional decoration parameter:

class DecoratedTabBar extends StatelessWidget implements PreferredSizeWidget {
  DecoratedTabBar({@required this.tabBar, @required this.decoration});

  final TabBar tabBar;
  final BoxDecoration decoration;

  @override
  Size get preferredSize => tabBar.preferredSize;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Stack(
      children: [
        Positioned.fill(child: Container(decoration: decoration)),
        tabBar,
      ],
    );
  }
}

Then you can decorate your TabBar however you want:

appBar: AppBar(
  bottom: DecoratedTabBar(
    tabBar: TabBar(
      tabs: [
        // ...
      ],
    ),
    decoration: BoxDecoration(
      border: Border(
        bottom: BorderSide(
          color: Colors.blue,
          width: 2.0,
        ),
      ),
    ),
  ),
),

Which will result in desired behavior:

Answer 2

TabBar(
indicatorColor: Color(0xffF15C22),
unselectedLabelColor: Colors.black,
                labelColor: Color(0xffF15C22),
                tabs: [
                  Tab(text: "Tab 1"),
                  Tab(text: "Tab 2"),
                  Tab(text: "Tab 3"),
                ],
              ),

indicatorColor is the property which is helpful in changing the color of line in tab view

Answer 3

I know I'm answering late, but this will eventually help a lot of people. What you have to do is to follow the same thing which is mentioned in the decoration by @tomwyr

You don't have to make your own widget for that, just do this and there you go.

class CustomTabBarMenu extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _CustomTabBarMenuState createState() => _CustomTabBarMenuState();
}

class _CustomTabBarMenuState extends State<CustomTabBarMenu> 
with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin{

   TabController _controller;

   @override
   void initState() {
     // TODO: implement initState
     super.initState();
     _controller = new TabController(length: YOUR_LENGTH, vsync: this);
   }

   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     return Column(
     crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
     children: [
     Container(
      //This is responsible for the background of the tabbar, does the magic
      decoration: BoxDecoration(
        //This is for background color
        color: Colors.white.withOpacity(0.0),
        //This is for bottom border that is needed
        border: Border(bottom: BorderSide(color: Colors.grey, width: 0.8))),
        child: TabBar(
        controller: _controller,
        tabs: [
          ...
        ]
      )
    ),
    Container(
      height: MediaQuery.of(context).size.height/2.3,
      child: new TabBarView(
        controller: _controller,
        children: <Widget>[
          ...
        ],
      )
    )
  ]
);
}
}

RESULT

Answer 4

The best way to it is like this :

  Scaffold(
    appBar: AppBar(
      titleSpacing : 0 ,
      automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
      elevation: 0,
      title: Container(
          width: double.infinity,
          decoration: BoxDecoration(
              color: Colors.white,
              border: Border(
                  bottom: BorderSide(color: Colors.grey, width: 0.8))),
          child: TabBar(
              unselectedLabelColor: Colors.grey,
              unselectedLabelStyle: TextStyle(
                  fontWeight: FontWeight.w700,
                  fontSize: 16,
                  color: Color.fromRGBO(142, 142, 142, 1)),
              labelColor: Colors.blue,
              labelPadding: EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(0, toppadding, 0, 8),
              labelStyle: TextStyle(
                fontFamily: "Roboto",
                fontSize: 16,
                fontWeight: FontWeight.w700,
              ),
              controller: tabController,
              indicatorColor: Colors.blue,
              indicator: UnderlineTabIndicator(
                borderSide:
                    BorderSide(color: Colors.grey, width: 2.0),
              ),
              tabs: [
                Text(
                  'Title1',
                ),
                Text(
                  'Title2',
                ),
              ])),
    ),
    body: TabBarView(
      controller: tabController,
      children: <Widget>[Container(), Container()],
    ),
  ),

Answer 5

You can just envolve the DefaultTabController with a Theme Widget and pass the color in indicatorColor in ThemeData.

Theme(
  data: ThemeData(
    indicatorColor: Colors.red,
  ),
  child: DefaultTabController(
    length: 2,
    child: Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text('Example =)'),
  

Answer 6

You can try using this package ! its pretty simple, just add the indicator to your tab bar's indicator property

      bottom: TabBar(
        isScrollable: true,
        indicatorSize: TabBarIndicatorSize.label,
        labelColor: Theme.of(context).accentColor,
        unselectedLabelColor: Color(0xff5f6368),
        **indicator: MD2Indicator(
            indicatorHeight: 3,
            indicatorColor: Theme.of(context).accentColor,
            indicatorSize: MD2IndicatorSize.full),**
        tabs: Constants.tabItems,
      ),

Answer 7

This post had previously been deleted because I put it in two places. I deleted the other post because this is the best place for it to be. A similar question can be found here: How to create unselected indicator for tab bar in Flutter

I believe the best answer is to wrap the tab bar in a Material widget, and give it an elevation (I chose an elevation of 1.) After that, you can customize the shadow color of the Material Widget.

Material(
   type: MaterialType.canvas,
   shadowColor: Colors.orange, //Custom unselected underline color
   elevation: 1.0, //Create underline for entire tab bar
        child: Container(
              color: Color(0xFFe3f2fd), //Gives tab bar a background color
                 child: TabBar(tabs: 
                          [Tab(text: 'ACTIVITY'), 
                           Tab(text: 'LEADERBOARD',),
                           Tab(text: 'SETTINGS',)],
                        labelColor: Theme.of(context).primaryColor,
                        indicatorColor: Theme.of(context).primaryColor,
                        labelStyle: TextStyle(
                                   fontWeight: FontWeight.bold, 
                                   fontFamily: 'Montserrat'),
                        indicatorPadding: 
                                   EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 20.0),
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),

Answer 8

You add this in tab bar

 indicator: BoxDecoration(
                border: Border(
                  bottom: BorderSide(
                    color: Colors.white,
                    width: 2.0,
                  ),
                ),
              ),

and you come up with something like this

 TabBar(
              labelColor: Colors.white,
              indicator: BoxDecoration(
                border: Border(
                  bottom: BorderSide(
                    color: Colors.white,
                    width: 2.0,
                  ),
                ),
              ),
              tabs: [
                Tab(child:
                FxText.titleMedium("Pofile", fontWeight: 600,color: Colors.white,)),
                Tab(
                    child: FxText.titleMedium(
                        "Events",
                        fontWeight: 600,color: Colors.white)),
              ],
            )