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How to hide just the pager tabs (but not the action bar) in Android

I'm using ViewPager to display tabs in Android, but in a circumstance, I want to display a fragment on top of the pager/tabs, but NOT on top of the ActionBar. If I hide the action bar, they both disappear. If I don't do it, I can't find a way to get rid of pager's tab bar (or whatever it's called). Here is a visual representation of what I'm trying to achieve:
How can I hide that bar without hiding the action bar?

I think you can do it by setting a new navigation mode.
Use setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD) to hide them
Use setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS) to show them again
Edit:
Please note that the setNavigationMode methods are deprecated in Android Lollipop.
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Use this to get rid of tabs in actionbar
setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD)

Sherlockaction Bar NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS Changes on orentation?

When changing from a vertical view to a horizontal view, the NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS will automatic changes to a list? May i know how do i fix this to NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS ?

There is nothing to fix, as this is by design. The native action bar does this as well. I filed an issue pointing out this behavior, and was told that the action bar is working as intended. ActionBarSherlock, in turn, aims to mirror Android's native behavior.
If you want tabs that are always tabs, use anything other than action bar tabs, such as:
ViewPager with a tab indicator (PagerTabStrip, TabPagerIndicator from the ViewPagerIndicator library, etc.)
FragmentTabHost
Etc.

ActionBarSherlock wrong tabs position on android 2.2.2

I'm having serious problems getting tabs in actionbarsherlock below main action bar tabs to work in an app that runs from Android 2.2 up and looks like Android 4. (see link)
Tabs position

Have you tried running the official Demos app of ActionBar Sherlock? (https://github.com/downloads/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/ActionBarSherlock-Sample-Demos-4.2.0.apk) It should contain a demo for the actionbar with Tabs.
If that works on Android 2.2 then you know the problem is in your code and you can check the Demos source code to see what you are doing differently (https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/tree/master/samples).

It's usual behavior of action bar (actionbarsherlock just simulate it). Use
ActionBar act = getSupportActionBar();
act.setStackedBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.mytab_base_t));
to avoid white color in top bar (this option you can't access from any theme item yet). You can also monitor action bar height to change custom view of tabs on-fly, but you can't change action bar behavior, forget it. Otherwise please use PagerTitleStrip against action bar tabs.

How to change layout on xlarge screens in ActionBarSherlock

I am building an app that uses ActionBarSherlock. I need to change it's layout so there is no padding arround tab icons. Now it looks like that:
| tab1 | tab2 | tab3 | t
But i want it like that:
|tab1|tab2|tab3|tab4|
I've manage to do so on normal size screens by changing that file:
library/res/values/abs__styles.xml
However on my Galaxy S3 still has padding, I tried changing paddings from:
library/res/values-xlarge/abs__dimens.xml
but no effect. I also tried to remove it but still no changes.
edit:
Just for information, I am using only icons but no text for top. All my icons are in drawable-hdpi, could that be a problem? I don't think so because they are not reseized or anything only paddings apper :S
that one is in values.
so I also tried comment out all lines with
<dimen name="abs__action_bar_icon_vertical_padding">0dip</dimen>
but no effect…

If your Galaxy S3 is running ICS or later, ABS will use the native action bar. Any changes you make to the library will have no effect.

Action Bar Sherlock library has some limitations in it.
Limitation 1 : Adjusting of Action menu items in action bar is not possible
Description :
You can have different action menu items in the action bar and also you can set the icons for that items in the action bar. But, adjusting padding between action items, Removing Toast for the action items in the action bar it is impossible. Because Action bar Sherlock uses native action bar. Only look and feel is similar to ICS, but behavior is restricted.
Limitation 2 : Activity Recreation
Description :
When Screen orientation changes, It will recreate activity which is in active. So User Interface will get updated and also it doesn't save the state of the application or activity..
Be Aware of Action Bar Sherlock

I wouldn't use ABS directly for Tab navigation. Consider using a Viewpager and ViewPagerIndicator, which is comatible with ABS (same author), and there you have a lot more control of the appearance . This way the user can also swip left-right to switch tabs.

Does this happen no matter what? I honestly haven't played too much with a native actionbar. What if you do something like an inset drawable? This would kind-of change how it's drawn and may shrink the icon, but might be a solution until you find something better.

Android Action Bar : App Icon & Title

Is it possible to use fragment tabs on action bar with the Theme.Holo.NoActionBar theme?
I mean... I already use this theme on my layouts but apparently it is overriden since the fragments have to show up in the action bar?
What I wanted to achieve is to actually get rid of the Title and App Icon over the fragment tabs. Something similar to the Google Music app.
Is this possible?

What I wanted to achieve is to actually get rid of the Title and App Icon over the fragment tabs. Something similar to the Google Music app.
Try calling setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false) and setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false) on your ActionBar, and leave the theme alone.

You can style the action bar based on your needs. I'm quite certain you can also remove the app icon and title from there. Using a NoActionbar theme by default and then recreating the action bar on your own kinda defeats the purpose of the action bar. I suggest you use a theme with action bar and then style the bar according to your needs. This page has a decent implementation.