Android TextView text not being displayed inside tab? - android

Forgive my simple questions, as I'm new to android. :)
Why is the text property of the textview not displaying inside this tab?
Screen: Here
Here's my code..
MapTab2.java
package com.test.maptab2;
import android.app.TabActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TabHost;
public class MapTab2 extends TabActivity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TabHost.TabSpec spec;
spec = getTabHost().newTabSpec("tab1");
spec.setContent(R.id.mapstub);
spec.setIndicator("Map");
getTabHost().addTab(spec);
spec = getTabHost().newTabSpec("tab2");
spec.setContent(R.id.detailstub);
spec.setIndicator("Detail");
getTabHost().addTab(spec);
getTabHost().setCurrentTab(0);
}
}
Main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<!-- Tab-switch panel -->
<TabWidget android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
<!-- Tab contents -->
<FrameLayout android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<!-- Map here -->
<TextView android:id="#+id/mapstub"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="map"/>
<!-- Other stuff -->
<TextView android:id="#+id/detailstub"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="detail"/>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
I'm trying to build my way up to displaying a map within a tab. Best to understand the basics first, I thought. :')

I actually have had more luck setting the gravity in the parent view (in this case, your LinearLayout), then setting the layout_gravity attributes in the child views (in your case, your TextViews, etc).
To get this simple example working, I would change all your "fill_parent" attributes to "wrap_content" (or 0.0dp as another alternative) - then you can start playing with the different attributes to get everything positioned exactly how you would like.

Try adding android:gravity="center" in every TextView inside a Tab.

Related

XAMARIN: How to FindViewById<TabWidget> ??? (Resource not Found)

I'm getting a resource not found error when I try to do this:
TabWidget tabz = FindViewById<TabWidget>(Resource.Id.tabs);
compiler doesn't see the TabWidget even when it's clearly labeled by id in my Main.axml file
Error CS0117 'Resource.Id' does not contain a definition for 'tabs'
Here's my full code:
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp">
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="visible" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp" />
</LinearLayout>
EDIT, sorry, this is the full code... I don't know why I didn't copy this last time. The above example is missing TabHost
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TabHost
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minWidth="25px"
android:minHeight="25px"
android:id="#+id/tabHost1">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:id="#+id/linearLayout1">
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
</LinearLayout>
How can I force the compiler to recognize my tabs id? I've tried rebuilding the resource.designer.cs .. putting the declaration of TabWidget inside all of the activities... nothing works. My C# can't see the TabWidget
full project can be found here:
https://github.com/hexag0d/BitChute_Mobile_Android_a2
I also tried this and it didn't work
Xamarin Android Resource file not found
thanks, in advance
The issue is not with the visual studio compiler but the way that you have declared the id for your View,
If you check this blog by James White you will see how Id and the Layout Attributes actually work in Android,
The Right way of declaring the Id would be something like this android:id="#+id/tabs" whereas what you are doing is this android:id="#android:id/tabs"
Hence, When you do add them and try to find it using Resource.Id.tabs, There is nothing available in Id by the name tabs as it was never added by the Xamarin ResourceDesginer.cs file.
So the end result should actually be something like this :
<TabHost
android:id="#+id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"></TabWidget>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/tab1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#ffc916"
android:orientation="vertical">
</LinearLayout>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
Also, note that I have replaced all the fill_parent's with match_parent's the reason behind it being that fill parent is now obsolete or you can say replaced (After API-8) and hence must not be used, which can be found here.
Update:
I have updated the way tab host works, Also updated the XML above and I am adding a reference link where you can find the right way of using both the TabHost and TabWidget, Also a good SO example for the same.
About the questions in your comment:
1,
that is very good advice, but one note is that when
SetContentView(localLayout); is used inside an activity that already
has a content view, it crashes the app.
The app crashed because localLayout in SetContentView(localLayout) is a LinearLayout but a TabWidget needs a TabHost. So you can directly use:
SetContentView(Resource.Layout.Main);
where Main.xaml is like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:theme="#style/MyTheme">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp">
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.0"
android:visibility="visible" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp" />
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
2,
LinearLayout localLayout =
FindViewById(Resource.Layout.Main); View
whichYouWantToUse_findViewById =
LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Main, null); TextView tv =
FindViewById(Resource.Id.textView169); TabHost _tabHost =
(TabHost)whichYouWantToUse_findViewById.FindViewById(Resource.Id.tabhost);
' still can't see the tabhost ... I'm losing my mind here
The reason why you cannot see the tabhost is, firt, TabHost is FrameLayout, not LinearLayout, second, Resource.Id.tabhost should be Android.Resource.Id.TabHost. So I edited your code to :
FrameLayout localLayout = FindViewById<FrameLayout>(Resource.Layout.Main);
whichYouWantToUse_findViewById = LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Main, null);
//TextView tv = FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.textView1);
TabHost _tabHost = (TabHost)whichYouWantToUse_findViewById.FindViewById(Android.Resource.Id.TabHost);
3,
So the interesting thing is if I change tabhost to tahost ala
android:id="#+id/tahost" the resource appears in the designer but when
I change to android:id="#+id/tabhost" the resource disappears.. very
strange..
The id of TabHost need always be #android:id/tabhost", it cannot be modified to tahost or any others.
So the code in the onCreat Method is like this:
base.OnCreate(bundle);
SetContentView(Resource.Layout.Main);
View whichYouWantToUse_findViewById = LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.layout1, null);
TextView textInAnotherLayout = (TextView)whichYouWantToUse_findViewById.FindViewById(Resource.Id.textView1);
textInAnotherLayout.Text = "Yeah";
TabHost tabHost = FindViewById<TabHost>(Android.Resource.Id.TabHost);
TabWidget tabWidget = tabHost.TabWidget;
var tabContent = tabHost.TabContentView;
FrameLayout localLayout = FindViewById<FrameLayout>(Resource.Layout.Main);
whichYouWantToUse_findViewById = LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Main, null);
TabHost _tabHost = (TabHost)whichYouWantToUse_findViewById.FindViewById(Android.Resource.Id.TabHost);
The following is the old answer.
Answer modified: The way to get TabHost and TabWidget in Activity:
TabHost tabHost = this.TabHost;
TabWidget tabWidget = tabHost.TabWidget;
The way to use one resource from one XAML file in the activity for
another:
LinearLayout localLayout = FindViewById<LinearLayout>(Resource.Layout.Main);
SetContentView(localLayout);
View whichYouWantToUse_findViewById = LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.layout1, null);
Button button1 = (Button)whichYouWantToUse_findViewById.FindViewById(Resource.Id.button1);
I download your project and fixed this problem by modifying the property of >android:id

Using Tabs with Views

I have a little problem using Tabs with Views.
First I just copied the sample code where Tabs are used with activitys:
My LayoutFile looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp">
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp" />
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
And this is my Java-code:
public class MyActivity extends TabActivity{
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TabHost tH = getTabHost();
Indent intent = new Intent().setClass(this, AnotherActivity.class);
// Initialize a TabSpec for each tab and add it to the TabHost
//TextView Test = new TextView(this);
//Test.setText("test");
tH.addTab(tH.newTabSpec("t1").setIndicator("Tab1").setContent(intent));
tH.setCurrentTab(0);
}
}
And this works as expected.
But when I uncomment the TextView-lines and call setContent(Test.getId()) instead of setContent(intent), the app crashes.
I also tried to create a textview in the layoutfile, and call setContent(R.id.test),
that also makes it crash.
So this is one problem.
The seccond point is. I do not want to use activitys, because i want to be able to call methods on those classes, which shall represent the Tab-content.
So my original idea is, to derive some classes from view. 1 for each tab, and pass their ids. But therefor the codesample above needs to work first.
greetings Uzaku
I know you said you tried a TextView in the layout file but this should work...
Change the FrameLayout section as follows...
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/test"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="TEST" />
</FrameLayout>
Then in your code do the following...
tH.addTab(tH.newTabSpec("t1").setIndicator("Tab1").setContent(R.id.test));

How to stack diffrent layout objects, over each other?

Hello Guys and probably some Girls, is it possible to stack Layout Objects. So that one Object is over the other one?
My Problem is this, i've got a tabhost and under the tabhost i've got a tablerow with a textview in it.
I made the tabhost tabs invisible, but it hiddes my tablrow with the textview in it,how can i bring it infront?
Here is the Layout.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:weightSum="1">
<RelativeLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom = "#android:id/tabcontent"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
<TableRow
android:id="#+id/ADFilterOverview"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="onClickADConfig"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignTop="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent">
<TextView
android:text="#string/newadfilter"
style="#style/NormalFont"
android:layout_gravity="bottom|left">
</TextView>
</TableRow>
</RelativeLayout>
</TabHost>
Thx in Advance
Best Regards
safari
Some more information, for better understanding:
Afterwards my code of my Activity looks something like this:
package de.retowaelchli.filterit;
import android.app.TabActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TabHost;
import android.content.Intent;
public class StatsActivity extends TabActivity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.stats);
TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();
tabHost.addTab(tabHost.newTabSpec("tab1").setIndicator("whatever").setContent(new Intent(this, SFilterStatsActivity.class)));
tabHost.setCurrentTab(1);
}
/** Verweise auf die anderen Seiten **/
public void onClickADConfig(View view){
final Intent i = new Intent(this, ADFilterConfigActivity.class);
startActivity(i); }
}
The linked class from my Tabhost looks for example like this:
package de.retowaelchli.filterit;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
public class ADFilterStatsActivity extends ListActivity {
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, mListContent));
}
private static String[] mListContent={"Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3","Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3","Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3","Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"};
}
So you see, i got a TabHost with one tab in it, which is filled from my ListActivity, the tabhost should be hidden (invisible), over this hidden tab should be the tablerow visible. So i can click it to get to my other class.
I hope this helps you guys...
FOUND A SOLUTION THX Egon
And here is the solution
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom = "#android:id/tabcontent"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
<TableRow android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/ADFilterOverview" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:onClick="onClickADConfig" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true">
<TextView android:layout_gravity="bottom|left" android:text="#string/newadfilter" style="#style/NormalFont"></TextView>
</TableRow>
</RelativeLayout>
</TabHost>
</FrameLayout>
If you want to place one View at the top of the other in Z-axis, you can use FrameLayout. It lets you position a View on the background and other views on top of it. It's really powerful and easy to use, so you must give it a try. Hope this helps.
If you make Parentview invisible then its childview also automatically make invisible. In this scenario you have to define other layout for your new tab.
If this is not correct, please make edit in, or suggest me. Thanx
EDIT: on your xml code I think tabhost is a parentview and tablerow , textview are childview of it.
I believe the problem is that you set the tabwidget to be alignParentBottom and then you set TableRow to have aligntop the tabwidget. Thus it is not visible. Making the tabwidget invisible does hide it, but the place holder is still there.

How to reduce the tab bar height and display in bottom

can anybody tell how to reduce the height of tab bar and display tab bar in bottom
Thanks
use the following line of code to change the height, this is the last line in my onCreate method
tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(0).getLayoutParams().height =35;
Add the following method to your class that extends TabActivity
public void addNewTab(Context context, String title, int height){
TabHost tabHost = getTabHost(); // The activity TabHost
Intent intent = new Intent().setClass(context, HelloTabsActivity.class);
TabHost.TabSpec spec = tabHost.newTabSpec(title.toLowerCase()).setIndicator(title).setContent(intent);
tabHost.addTab(spec);
int totalTabs = tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildCount();
((RelativeLayout)tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildTabViewAt(totalTabs-1)).removeViewAt(0);
((TextView)((RelativeLayout)tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildTabViewAt(totalTabs-1)).getChildAt(0)).setHeight(30);
tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(totalTabs-1).getLayoutParams().height = height;
}
then call it like this addNewTab(this, "tab title", 30);
Note that you have to change the height of each tab. For two tabs:
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
... // other code
final int height = 45;
mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(0).getLayoutParams().height = height;
mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(1).getLayoutParams().height = height;
}
You could either
Build your own tab using a TableLayout at the bottom of the screen - which gives you quite a lot of flexibility
or
Modify use the existing TabHost/TabWidget - works in principle but I don't know how to reduce the tab bar height. Works like that:
Layout file main.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TabHost android:id="#+id/tab_host"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TabWidget android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
<FrameLayout android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/first_tab"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:text="First Tab" />
<!-- Replace TextView with your layout content for this tab -->
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/second_tab"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:text="Second Tab" />
<!-- Replace TextView with your layout content for this tab -->
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/third_tab"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:text="One More Tab" />
<!-- Replace TextView with your layout content for this tab -->
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/edit_item_text_tab"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</FrameLayout>
</TabHost>
</LinearLayout>
Source code of your activity, in this case StartActivity.java
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TabHost;
import android.widget.TabHost.TabSpec;
public class StartActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TabHost tab_host = (TabHost) findViewById(R.id.tab_host);
tab_host.setup();
TabSpec tabspec1 = tab_host.newTabSpec("TAB_1");
tabspec1.setIndicator("Tab 1");
tabspec1.setContent(R.id.first_tab);
tab_host.addTab(tabspec1);
TabSpec tabspec2 = tab_host.newTabSpec("TAB_2");
tabspec2.setIndicator("Tab 2");
tabspec2.setContent(R.id.second_tab);
tab_host.addTab(tabspec2);
TabSpec tabspec3 = tab_host.newTabSpec("TAB_3");
tabspec3.setIndicator("Tab 3");
tabspec3.setContent(R.id.third_tab);
tab_host.addTab(tabspec3);
tab_host.setCurrentTab(0);
}
}
Turns out to look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tabhost" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="1dp">
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TabWidget android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="60dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />
<FrameLayout android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="1dp">
</FrameLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Most likely you'll have to implement tabs by your own. As far as I know that's impossible with regular android tabs.
<TabWidget android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:tabStripEnabled="false"
android:padding="0dip"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
Working with tabs in the Eclipse "graphical layout" mode is not quite intuitive.
NOTE - Currently I am not able to attach pictures to this answer as my reputation is
below 10. Maybe in the future I will edit it and add them.
1) To change tab bar height:- Select "tabs (TabWidget)" in the Outline view. A selection/resize box should appear around the tab bar and its height can now be modified. I have made it thinner in picture1.
2) To move the tab bar to bottom:- Select "tabs (TabWidget)" in the Outline view and drop it into the LinearLayout above it (as marked in the picture 1). This will send the "tabs (TabWidget)" to the bottom of the list (see picture2). Tabs Bar might disappear at this stage. So adjust the weights of "tabcontent" & "tabs (TabWidget)" till it looks ok. I have used 10 & 1 respectively.
3) To bring tab2 to the top:- After design/layout of tab1 is complete, we want to work on the next tab. But Eclipse does not allow selecting it. To bring tab2 to the top select tab1 and drop it into tabcontent. This will send tab1 to the bottom of the list and tab2 to the top.
Later when work on tab2 is complete, tab3 can be brought up.
This pretty roundabout way of working in graphical layout mode but maybe better than typing xml code.
Cheers

Android: Anyone wants to take a shot at suggesting a better layout?

I never designed UIs (more of a middleware guy) before so I apologize if the question is stupid. I am designing a UI to look something like the following:
ImageView ImageView
TabHost
Tab 0 ------ Tab 1 ------ Tab 2
-----INSIDE EACH TAB-----
TextView
ListView
- Consists of ImageView TextView
The problem is I think I am following a very inefficient way of doing the whole stuff. The onCreate method is as follows:
CODE:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TabHost mTabHost = getTabHost();
Drawable Tab1Icon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.tab1_icon);
Drawable Tab2Icon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.tab2_icon);
Drawable Tab3Icon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.tab3_icon);
mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec("Tab1").setIndicator("Tab 1", Tab1Icon).setContent(new Intent(this, Tab1.class)));
mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec("Tab2").setIndicator("Tab 2", Tab1Icon).setContent(new Intent(this, Tab2.class)));
mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec("Tab3").setIndicator("Tab 3", Tab1Icon).setContent(new Intent(this, Tab3.class)));
mTabHost.setCurrentTab(0);
}
This program crashes on CupCake (v1.5) complaining about StackOverflowException but runs well on Donut (v1.6). This is my main.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#color/application_background"
>
<TableLayout
android:id="#+id/TableLayout01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:stretchColumns="0"
android:background="#color/application_background">
<TableRow>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ImageView id="#+id/picview1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/leftlogo"
android:paddingRight="105sp"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/picview2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/rightlogo"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</TableRow>
<TableRow>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Any suggestions regarding the design please?
Thanks
If you are getting StackOverflowExceptions, your UI is too complex. Fire up hierarchyviewer and find ways to remove some layers.
One way to simplify everything and remove layers is to supply the tab contents as Views, not Intents pointing to Activities.
You can just pass the R.drawable ID of the icon to setIndicator().
You should not have the TableLayout inside a LinearLayout (why bother with the LinearLayout?) or a LinearLayout inside of a TableRow (TableRow is a LinearLayout, for all intents and purposes). Please consider dumping the entire TableLayout/TableRow/LinearLayout stuff and just use a single RelativeLayout.

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