Showing all tabs in action bar sherlock? - android

Im using action bar sherlock and in landscape mode all of my tabs show, but in portrait only one shows.
How can I show all tabs so the user can slide along them? They dont have to be on screen at the same time, I just dont want a pop up menu.

A bit old question and you may already figured out how to fix it, but here's a solution for people struggling (like I was) with the same issue. In fact, the documentation says the following:
Note: In some cases, the Android system will show your action bar tabs as a drop-down list in order to ensure the best fit in the action bar.
To avoid the drop-down list when your tab items don't fit the screen, add your tabs to ActionBar and set navigation mode after adding the items.
ActionBar bar = getSupportActionBar();
//bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); // Don't set navigation mode yet, if you do then portrait mode will revert to list mode if tab items don't fit the screen
bar.setLogo(logo);
bar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
bar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
bar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
// Add lots of tab items
for (int i = 0; i < channels.length; i++) {
ActionBar.Tab tab = bar.newTab();
String[] s = channels[i].split(":");
tab.setText(s[0]);
tab.setTag(s[1]);
tab.setTabListener(this);
bar.addTab(tab);
}
// Set navigation mode now, that will show all tabs in portrait mode instead of drop-down regardless the screen size
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
That's it :)

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bar.setLogo(logo);
bar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
bar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
bar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
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ActionBar.Tab tab2 = bar.newTab();
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tab2.setTabListener(new MyTabListener());
tab3.setTabListener(new MyTabListener());
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If you absolutely cannot have the collapsed UI, switch to a ViewPager and either PagerTabStrip, the tab indicator from ViewPagerIndicator, or any other ViewPager tab implementation.
Action Bar will collapse tabs by default when area available is less. In portrait view, it creates another tab panel below the Action Bar. You can force this behavior in landscape mode also:
try {
Class c = Class.forName("com.android.internal.app.ActionBarImpl");
Method m = c.getDeclaredMethod("setHasEmbeddedTabs",boolean.class);
m.setAccessible(true);
m.invoke(getActionBar(),false); //-- do not embed tabs --
}catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
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...
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Thanks,
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