How to remove the tab indicator on Android?

How to remove this bubble (Indicator light) in action bar tab in android?

• How to get rid of these bubble shown in below figure. I have two tabs in my layout and I have used green indicator light to show selected tab (First tab is selected in below figure), which is working fine. But I don't know why that small bubbles (shown in below figure) are coming in both tabs. These small bubble indicator lights are always ON irrespective of tab selected/unselected. Any help? Here are my style.xml file - <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light"> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/RActionBar</item> <item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">@style/RActionBarTabText</item> <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@color/actionbartextcolor</item> <item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">@style/RActionBarTabs</item> <item name="android:actionBarTabBarStyle">@style/RActionBarTabBarStyle</item> <item name="android:textColorHighlight">#99e9d1f6</item> </style> <style name="RActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar"> <item name="android:background">@color/actionbarbackgndcolor</item> <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/RActionBarTitleText</item> </style> <!-- ActionBar title text --> <style name="RActionBarTitleText" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar"> <item name="android:textColor">@color/actionbartextcolor</item> </style> <!-- ActionBar tabs text styles --> <style name="RActionBarTabText" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar"> <item name="android:textColor">@color/actionbartextcolor</item> <item name="android:textAllCaps">true</item> <item name="android:gravity">center</item> </style> <style name="RActionBarTabs" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.TabView"> <!-- tab indicator --> <item name="android:background">@drawable/tab_bar_background</item> </style> <style name="RActionBarTabBarStyle" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.TabBar"> <item name="android:background">@color/actionbarbackgndcolor</item> </style> @drawable/tab_bar_background.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- UNSELECTED TAB STATE --> <item android:state_pressed="false" android:state_selected="false"><layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <!-- Bottom indicator color for the UNSELECTED tab state --> <item android:left="-5dp" android:right="-5dp" android:top="-5dp"><shape android:shape="rectangle"> <stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="@color/actionbarbackgndcolor" /> </shape></item> </layer-list></item> <!-- SELECTED TAB STATE --> <item android:state_pressed="false" android:state_selected="true"><layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <!-- Tab background color for the SELECTED tab state --> <item><shape> <solid android:color="@color/actionbarbackgndcolor" /> </shape></item> <!-- Bottom indicator color for the SELECTED tab state --> <item android:left="-5dp" android:right="-5dp" android:top="-5dp"><shape android:shape="rectangle"> <stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="@color/actionbarbottomindicatorcolor" /> </shape></item> </layer-list></item> actionbarbottomindicator color = "green", actionbarbackgndcolor = "blue" (action bar color shown in figure) Edit: Also I have found that length of blue indicator line (My problem) is equal to length of tab title.

• Answer:

  Problem was with text background colour and it was set as blue. That's why blue bubble indicator light was increasing and decreasing by changing word length of tab title text.