Animation when transition between tabs in Ionic 2

I have an ionic 2 app with basic tabs.

<ion-tabs selectedIndex="1">
  <ion-tab [root]="tab1Root" tabTitle="hunts" tabIcon="book"></ion-tab>
  <ion-tab [root]="tab2Root" tabTitle="home" tabIcon="home"></ion-tab>
  <ion-tab [root]="tab3Root" tabTitle="hunting" tabIcon="locate"></ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>

The tabs appears perfectly. But I would like to have a sliding animation when transitioning between tabs. That is, when I press the rightmost tab from the middle tab, middle tab should slide to left and rightmost tab should slide in from right. This is a basic android animation.

I am unable to find any details on how to accomplish this. Is this still not possible in Ionic (2.2.0) ?

Before starting

$ ionic cordova plugin add com.telerik.plugins.nativepagetransitions
$ npm install --save @ionic-native/native-page-transitions

Then import the plugin in your src/app/app.module.ts the following way

import { NativePageTransitions } from '@ionic-native/native-page-transitions';

And add it as a provider.

  providers: [
    {provide: ErrorHandler, useClass: IonicErrorHandler},
    StatusBar,
    SplashScreen,
    NativePageTransitions // <-- add me here
  ]

Go to your src/pages/tabs/tabs.ts

Import the plugin

import { NativePageTransitions, NativeTransitionOptions } from '@ionic-native/native-page-transitions';

Add the plugin to the constructor

  constructor(public navCtrl: NavController,
              private nativePageTransitions: NativePageTransitions) {
  }

Add these 2 variables

loaded:   boolean = false;
tabIndex: number  = 0;

Then add these two functions

  private getAnimationDirection(index:number):string {
    var currentIndex = this.tabIndex;

    this.tabIndex = index;

    switch (true){
      case (currentIndex < index):
        return('left');
      case (currentIndex > index):
        return('right');
    }
  }

  public transition(e:any):void {    
    let options: NativeTransitionOptions = {
     direction:this.getAnimationDirection(e.index),
     duration: 250,
     slowdownfactor: -1,
     slidePixels: 0,
     iosdelay: 20,
     androiddelay: 0,
     fixedPixelsTop: 0,
     fixedPixelsBottom: 48
    };

    if (!this.loaded) {
      this.loaded = true;
      return;
    }

    this.nativePageTransitions.slide(options);
  }

Then go to src/pages/tabs/tabs.html Modify the ion-tabs tag the following way :

<ion-tabs (ionChange)="transition($event)">

or

<ion-tabs (ionSelect)="transition($event)">

Edit for Ionic 4

<ion-tabs (ionTabsWillChange)="transition($event)">

Enjoy.

PS: You can find the full code on my gist glemiere/58d1707ba82d40a55967601dbd0e72c9.

EDIT If you want to modify the animation, here are the all the informations you need. http://plugins.telerik.com/cordova/plugin/native-page-transitions