If you have seen the skype android app, then you may have noticed that when skype moves from one activity to another, the top bar remains in place while the rest of the page slides out and the new activity comes in.
So how are they doing it? I want to do something like that.
Fragments can do what you wan't, and a lot more
In skype.. They are using Tab Activity...
Refer : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/TabActivity.html
Android TabHost Tutorial
Also if you want to use a single title through out the applciation :
You can define a title_layout.xml... & include it in the top of all your layouts like
<include layout="#layout/title_header"/>
You need to create a custom view which will act as your Tab Bar.
After creating your custom tab bar use it in whatever activity as you want.
Check this for more info on custom views.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html
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I want to make something like this in my android app
With 2 or 3 activities or more. I don't want to use visible tabs with names. I just want when i slide through a new activity with its own layout appear, a totally different screen. I've read about viewpager and pageradapter, but i' m a little confused. What do you think is the best way to do it?
This is what you need, just follow this tutorial http://www.androidhive.info/2015/09/android-material-design-working-with-tabs/
You dont even need multiples activities.
You can actually create a swiping activity in android studio.
Goto:
File -> New -> Activity -> Tabbed Activity and choose Navigation Style to be Swipe Views.
Android Studio will do the rest. Then you can change the fragments according to your need.
EDIT:
This is a nice example that demonstrate using Activity with ViewPager.
Android PagerView between Activities
Let me try to make my question much clearer here. Supposed I have a custom tab created by using buttons and images in XML layout and it looks like this.
Each of these buttons, should call a class. Normally, Intent is used to call new class when onClick. But the whole layout would be redrawn when I call any of the classes via Intent.
Intent intent1 = new Intent(TabBar.this, Favourites.class);
startActivity(intent1);
I tried using TabHost and it worked, but my project requires me to use a custom tab bar.
I also tried the solution to this Dynamically change view inside view in Android, which is similar to what I wanted, (switching layouts and maintaining the tab bar below it), which worked as well.
My goal is to maintain the custom tab that I have, and change the classes instead of layout without redrawing the custom tab bar everytime I click on every buttons. With classes, I can run different functions and call different activities.
I googled a lot on this but couldn't seem to find a solution or reference. Can somebody guide me? Thanks in advance.
Update :
I'm new in Android, and after attempting many times, I decided to try out codes from AdilSoomro to achieve what I wanted, http://adilsoomro.blogspot.com/2011/06/iphone-like-tabs-in-android.html which is to create custom tabs that looks like iPhone tabs. However, this project uses TabActivity that is now deprecated in Android 4.1. I attempted to change it to FragmentActivity after referring to other sources that uses Fragments for tabs.
http://android.codeandmagic.org/2011/07/android-tabs-with-fragments/
http://thepseudocoder.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/android-tabs-the-fragment-way/
I managed to create it using FragmentActivity and here is where you can refer to them :
How to use custom iPhone tab in FragmentActivity?
You can use TabHost control to achieve this. Go through this post
It explains all the possibilities. It also includes using custom tab bar defined in the xml file.
One of the way to achieve this is create footer and use it in all your activity. Like This. And Let me know its useful as per your requirement or not.
I've done a great amount of searching and I can't seem to find anything that helps me. I'm new to Android programming (I do know Java though), and I am working on an app that deals with dynamic content being downloaded from a server. I would like to have a bottom navigation bar, that is persistent throughout the app. This nav bar will consist of 5 buttons, that when clicked will open a new activity. However I would like the activity to be loaded in the content area above the nav bar.
So basically I will have a layout that contains a content view and the nav controller. The nav controller should never change...the content view should load a new activity upon nav button click. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
You will have to create a common layout for the navigation bar , and include it in every layout of the activity. use "include" tag in the xml to do this. please have a look at the discussion below, it may help you.
Common buttons or tabs at bottom for every activity
Have a look at this project: http://code.google.com/p/androidtabs/
You might want to consider looking at Fragments since the TabActivity is deprecated. You would need to download a compatibility package in the SDK in order to use it on pre-honeycomb devices. It should be able to do exactly as you want.
I am trying to add tab bar to my existing app. I have divided all my activities into 2 groups, each group of activities has the navigation controls.
I want to place these activities under corresponding group-1, group-2 tabs.
what is the best way of doing this.
Thanks,
Venkat Papana
Knowing nothing particular about your app its hard to say exactly how to go about doing it, but it seems like you want to implement a Tab Layout and can use the following example as a guide: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html
Hallo,
Any idea where I can find a simple tabs example?
The Android Developers Hello Views Tab Layout example only details how to use separate Activities for each Tab.
I would like to use tabs to extend a screen of settings without scrolling, i.e. there are too many options for a single screen, so I'd like to split them over two tabs, but still handle them in the same Activity.
Each tab can refer to a separate layout file if that is how it needs to be done,
TIA,
-Frink
if your tabs don't need to be dynamic you can just load the views in the xml file. Just like in this example http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html
In your tabhost instead of passing an intent you can pass a viewID