title: In Xamarin Forms 3.1, when using tabbed page with 4 tabs, how can I prevent "sliding" effect of tab bar on Android?
body: <p>I have an app with four pages, and I want it to look similar to my (non-Xamarin) iOS app, so to have toolbar at the bottom.  Here is my MainPage.xaml file:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt;
  &lt;TabbedPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
               xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
               xmlns:local="clr-namespace:XaBLE1"
               x:Class="XaBLE1.MainPage"
              Title="Safe-T Sim" HeightRequest="768" WidthRequest="512" 
  
              BarBackgroundColor="#F1F1F1"
              BarTextColor="Gray"
              xmlns:android="clr-namespace:Xamarin.Forms.PlatformConfiguration.AndroidSpecific;assembly=Xamarin.Forms.Core"
              android:TabbedPage.ToolbarPlacement="Bottom"
              android:TabbedPage.BarItemColor="#666666"
              android:TabbedPage.BarSelectedItemColor="Black"
              &gt;
  
      &lt;NavigationPage Title="Test" Icon="ElectTest.png"
                      HasNavigationBar="False"&gt;
          &lt;x:Arguments&gt;
              &lt;local:TestPage /&gt;
          &lt;/x:Arguments&gt;
      &lt;/NavigationPage&gt;
      &lt;NavigationPage Title="Review" Icon="Review.png"
                      HasNavigationBar="False"&gt;
          &lt;x:Arguments&gt;
              &lt;local:ReviewPage /&gt;
          &lt;/x:Arguments&gt;
      &lt;/NavigationPage&gt;
      &lt;NavigationPage Title="Setup" Icon="Gear.png"
                      HasNavigationBar="False"&gt;
          &lt;x:Arguments&gt;
              &lt;local:SetupPage /&gt;
          &lt;/x:Arguments&gt;
      &lt;/NavigationPage&gt;
      &lt;NavigationPage Title="Info" Icon="Info.png"
                      HasNavigationBar="False"&gt;
          &lt;x:Arguments&gt;
              &lt;local:InfoPage /&gt;
          &lt;/x:Arguments&gt;
      &lt;/NavigationPage&gt;
  &lt;/TabbedPage&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't care for the current look-and-feel on Oreo, which is to make the selected page tab larger and put the title, pushing the other tabs aside and removing the page title.<br>
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SM82Y.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SM82Y.jpg" alt="Bottom Tab Bar with 2nd page selected"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is there anyway to disable this behavior, and let it just be 4 tabs.   Note that this behavior does not happen if there are 3 tabs -- there is only darkening and slight enlarging of the icon &amp; text, but both are visible.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:  I tried the answer suggested in the comments, but as noted I'm not sure this is trying to solve the same problem, and in any case does not change the behavior.</p>