I've researched about this but I couldn't find anything.
When should I use tabMode:fixed, and when should I use tabMode:scrollable? What's the difference between them? Which one of them is best practice?
tabMode:fixed - the tabs are fixed in your tabbar (not good for long long tabtitles)
tabMode:scrollable - you can scroll your tabs horizontally
If you have a lot of tabs or your tabtitles are very long, the best practice is to use tabMode:scrollable
Use tabMode:fixed
when you know the number of tabs and their titles are fixed and properly showing in design window of android studio. Then use it.
when *tabMode is fixed* tab titles move to next line. and if you inflate custom tab layout then it shows ellipsize at end like ....
But when your Tabs are dynamic and their title's are long(or dynamic). You should use tabMode:scrollable
But you have to create a customTabLayout for handling it. Because you may stuck in this problem. Solution to Problem
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I tried many times to create a layout that contain multiple layouts and switch between these layouts by sliding left or right like on WhatsApp or Facebook apps.
I have used some LinearLayout, TableLayout and ScrollView but I didn't found the way to achieve it.
Do you have any solution please ?
What do you want to do is a Material Design Sliding Tabs ? I implemented that functionality in my app following this guide
You probably want to use Androids ViewPager and set up your views as fragments, it has built in swipe gestures to transition through pages so should cover what you need.
Check out this example, it's also got a sample app you can download and test out:
http://developer.android.com/training/animation/screen-slide.html
I'm developing an app that is using "tabs". I have successfully implemented a design that uses these tabs in conjunction with a number of fragments.
however, I believe that these tabs look pretty ugly. I want to customize how they appear! I prefer them to appear as plain text next to eachother with a "|" between them and underline the tab that the user is one. Rather than the way they are currently designed which is each text per tab is separated evenly with a blue bar underneath it representing that it is selected.
I am not sure where to start. how can I go about doing this?
Check out the PagerSlidingTabStrip
http://www.androidviews.net/2013/04/pager-sliding-tabstrip/
https://github.com/astuetz/PagerSlidingTabStrip
You can hook it up to your viewpager and customize your tabs in many different ways.
Hope it helps!
Firstly, I would like to mention that since i am not sure of the terminology of the view that i am looking for so I shall try and explain the behaviour.
I am looking for build a screen with multiple tabs where the tab indicators do not fit all inside the screen so it is scrollable. This is fine but i want that when the scrolling happens, after the last tab indicator, the tab widget automatically shows the first tab indicator right after it. So kind of like a circular tab widget.
Could someone please give pointers on how this could be achieved in android.
Thanks,
Sunny
I'm not sure, since you're not so clear...but i think you're looking for this:
https://github.com/astuetz/PagerSlidingTabStrip
Sliding tabs like the ones in Google Play.
I'd like to implement a navigation with two layers of tabs, similar to this one:
However I cannot find how to give scrollable tabs this appearance: centered title for the active tab, and the others pushed to the sides, without separator or underlining. I'm pretty sure I've seen this scrollable tabs style before, so I was wondering if it's just a setting or maybe a third party library.
Could anyone help me with this ?
Thank you.
Have a look at ViewPager's PagerTitleStrip. That's what you are looking for.
I've been updating an Android app today which so far had a single TableLayout-based View. Now, I'd like to duplicate that View with another set of backing data, and use horizontal swiping to switch between both. At some point I'd also like to add a third "page" with a different TableLayout.
I haven't really found any good ways to get this going. I've been looking at http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/lateral.html, and I actually copied the code fragment for the Tabs Pattern with NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS. That results in a little dropdown widget being added to the View title in the action bar, but clicking it doesn't show the tabs I set up (with actionBar.addTab()). I'm also not sure how to set up the view (XML) code to stick the TableLayouts in there.
I should mention that I don't have to care for pre-4.0 Android for this, so compatibility is not (much of) an issue.
Try to Use ViewPager Widget you can find useful links on the web, this widget handle the horizontal swiping between views.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/08/horizontal-view-swiping-with-viewpager.html
https://github.com/JakeWharton/Android-ViewPagerIndicator
http://blog.stylingandroid.com/archives/537#
I haven't really found any good ways to get this going.
Try ViewPager. Here is an Android Developers Blog post on ViewPager: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/08/horizontal-view-swiping-with-viewpager.html
Here is a small sample app using ViewPager: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-omnibus/tree/master/ViewPager/Fragments
None of the other answers ended up helping much. However, this one is pretty good:
http://thepseudocoder.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/android-page-swiping-using-viewpager/