I am trying to customize a action bar so that it looks like which is an IOS liked navigation bar. Here are some articles that i found. link1
It seems impossible to change tabs position and size in android. i had read another stack overflow page which suggest to put a few buttons.
Is there anyway I can make such action bar with one button on the left, on button on the right and a tabs in the middle.
Here's an awesome Tutorial about Android Material Tabs. The tutorial explains about all basic modification that can be done on Tabs. It also teaches to use CustomAdapter to build our own Tab style as you wanted.
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I am trying to figure out how airbnb has implemented its Tab Bar, it either seems they have hidden their actionbar and everything has been shifted onto a tab bar but then the right most user icon opens the navigation drawer which should be ideally on actionbar, Or everything is on action bar itself but then how can those 3 tabs/icons on left be implemented on actionbar. (Kindly refer attached image)
Can somebody put some light on how this can be implemented. How to go about it? Also are those 3 icons fragments or separate activities?
Here, is a library which makes your life simpler to implement TabBarView for actionbar tabs.
https://github.com/Mirkoddd/TabBarView
This should give you insight about how to use it for your app.
Screenshots
Background
Graphical tabs started to appear in stock Android application around ICS. However, they are quite different from the traditional tabs (link). Moreover, I have found no related tutorials.
Differences with Traditional Tabs
Graphics instead of text, obviously.
No selection indicator at bottom.
The color of the contents (graphics) indicates the selection instead.
Suspicions
Are they just tabs with an icon but no text, combining together with a suitable theme?
If yes, how to theme the tabs to achieve such effects?
The main difference is that old style tabs were implemented using TabHost and TabWidgets. However, since the introduction of the Action Bar the tabs are implemented as action bar tabs.
You can read about styling the tabs in here.
Basically you can create your own indicator, as well as choose between icons, text etc.
i am developing an android application that contains tabs. my application is like this:
Please notice that I have an action bar that contains many tabs.
Now I want to add an extra tab bar. what i mean is: in the players activity i want to have anotion action bar. for example players under 21 years and players above 21 years
how can i do that please?
what i have tried
i tried manking many bottons with view pager. and when the user press on any button, i slide the view pager. it works good. but i would like to know if there is a standard solution.
hint
i think that action bar at the top and ation bar at the botton will help. but i don't know if this is available.
thank u very mush.
The framework provides TabHost, which you can bind to the ViewPager from by setting an OnTabChangedListener and changing the current page based on the selection. It's slightly more complicated than just using buttons, but you get the tab theme
I'm new in android programming, I want to create the GUI of my app, when making that the action bar must be customized to looks like :
here i have "three" things:
the button shape in the non-clicking state.
the button shape in the clicking state.
the buttons separator shape.
while searching i found somethings like Android-actionbar and ActionBar-Sherlock and i'm also familiar with how to customize the action bar and how to add buttons imagess and change it upon clicking, NOW, i don't know if there's is possibility to achieve my work using any of these methods, OR IF NOT, what's the best way.
You should take a look at both these links.
PagerTabStrip
ViewPagerIndicator
For my application , I'm planning to have a design as this:
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/7045/problemel.png
-Design needs to have a title bar which is indeed the action bar in android. To overcome the compatibility issues, I used the sherlock action bar which is said to support older versions that dont have action bars. I havent tested yet for the older devices however.
-As far as I know, for navigation , we could rather use tabbed or dropdown list methods. I want to have constant tabs for every page in my app to stand below the page. This reflects the tabbed action bar, however I want it below not just under the action bar. I don't know how but youtube application somehow has it in the middle of the screen (if it's not a custom view). So how do we have tabs positioned in the bottom of the page?
-Also I want to have another menu, whose items depend on the page it's on. But the apperance will be the same for every page. In the picture on the left this menu has buttons as "Bt 1" ,"Bt 2". I dont want to repeat the same xml for every activity page, but I'm not sure how to achieve it without repeating. If the action bar allowed using both navigation tabs and the drop down list, I could put the items of this menu in the dropdown list just as the picture on the right (onto the gray button). But I guess it does not?!
Therefore I have to repeat the menu xml code in every page or is there another smart way?
Any advice will be appreciated.
This can be achieved not with tabs but by adding items to a linear_layout with a gravity of bottom but it is a bad practice as #D_Steve595 stated and should be avoided in android designs.
actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);