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how to find the tabs tag in tabwidget

I have a tab host with four tabs and I want to do an operation on changing a tab.
I know that with mytabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new ...){...} we can do operations when changing from a tab to another, but I want a way to find the tab's numeric number that I navigated(changed) to it even out of "changing tab listener" event
this is my code:
tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
int mediaPlayerIndex = tabHost.getCurrentTab();
initViews();
}
});

How to get tab click in Android?

I have created two tabs in my Activity using the below code. This is working perfectly fine. When I click on the first tab I see its contents and the other one shows its content when clicked on it.
How ever I want to set a variable value to true or false based on the Tab selected. But I dont know how to get the tab click for this tab. Can you please help me on this.
The code :
tabHost.setup();
TabSpec ts = tabHost.newTabSpec("Tab1");
ts.setIndicator("", getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.tab1_content));
ts.setContent(R.id.tab1Layout);
tabHost.addTab(ts);
TabSpec ts1 = tabHost.newTabSpec("Tab2");
ts1.setIndicator("", getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.tab2_content));
ts1.setContent(R.id.tab2Layout);
tabHost.addTab(ts1);

Add onTabchangedListener to the tabhost and using selectedTab Value manage whatsoever you want to manage.
selectedTab value will be = 0 for first tab and rest so on
tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener(){
#Override
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
int selectedTab = tabHost.getCurrentTab() // selected
}
});
Hope it helps :)

Android TabHost with only selected tab on stack

I have a TabHost with 4 tabs. I need only the selected tab activity to be available on the stack. When user changes the tab, how to finish the activity under previous tab. I tried the following code. Here showing code for first tab. It similar for remaining tabs:
spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("tab1").setIndicator("Tab1",
res.getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_tab_tab1))
.setContent(new Intent(this, Tab1.class)
.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP));
But the above code is deleting the Tab1 Activity on stack/heap only when the user comes again to that tab but not when user changes to new tab.

I've had a look at this, what is your reason for this?
How do you know what's on the stack? Are you depending on onDestroy() or something?
I haven't got a full answer but you can see which tab is active:
Let your class implement OnTabChangeListener
public class YourClass extends TabActivity implements OnTabChangeListener {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// Load all your normal objects as well as TabHost
// make your tabhost listen for tab changes
mTabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(this);
}
#Override
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
int currentTabNumber = mTabHost.getCurrentTab();
for(int i=0;i<mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildCount();i++)
{
if(i != currentTabNumber){
System.out.println("I'm not a currently active tab");
}
}
}
}

Get index of selected tab in tabHost

I'm trying to store the index of the currently selected tab in onSaveInstanceState so I can restore it. However the getCurrentTab apparantely gives me back the String I used in the etTabHost().newTabSpec, which I find a bit weird since the documentation says it returns an int and setCurrentTab also taking an int.
Does anyone know how I can get the index of my currently selected tab so I can restore it?

you are on the right way, use setOnTabChangedListener to get your selected tab.
public class MainActivity extends TabActivity {
static TabHost mytabs;
mytabs = getTabHost();
mytabs.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onTabChanged(String arg0) {
Log.i("***Selected Tab", "Im currently in tab with index::" + mytabs.getCurrentTab());
}
});
...
...
...

You can use getCurrentTab() that returns index of tab start from 0.

Use tabHost.getCurrentTab() to get Tab ...
tabHost= getTabHost();
tabHost.addTab(tab0); // TabSpec tab0=tabHost.newTabSpec(...
tabHost.addTab(tab1); // TabSpec tab1=tabHost.newTabSpec
int current = tabHost.getTabHost() ;

OnClickListener on Tabs not working

Greetings,
I am trying to get the Click - event when clicking on the currently selected tab of my TabActivity. The onTabChangedHandler is only called whenever the tab is changed, not if the currently active Tab is clicked. The debugger tells me i have the onClickListener Registered for the TabWidget within my TabHost.
Am i registering for the wrong View?
Also, I am unable to create a Context Menu for the Tabs, only for its content, is this problem related?
public class TestDroidViewTab extends TabActivity
implements TabContentFactory
, OnTabChangeListener, OnClickListener {
private static final String LOG_KEY = "TEST";
ListView listView;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
final TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();
TabHost.TabSpec ts = tabHost.newTabSpec("ID_1");
ts.setIndicator("1");
ts.setContent(this);
tabHost.addTab(ts);
ts = tabHost.newTabSpec("ID_2");
ts.setIndicator("2");
ts.setContent(this);
tabHost.addTab(ts);
ts = tabHost.newTabSpec("ID_3");
ts.setIndicator("3");
ts.setContent(this);
tabHost.addTab(ts);
tabHost.setOnClickListener(this);
tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(this);
}
public void onClick(View v) {
Log.d(LOG_KEY, "OnClick");
}
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
Log.d(LOG_KEY, "OnTabChanged");
}

If you want to see that a particular tab is clicked, you need to add your listener to the tab itself, not the TabHost.
The hierarchy of views in a tab implementation is:
TabHost
TabWidget
(tab)
(tab)
FrameLayout
The tabs are added at runtime by calling: tabHost.addTab(tabHost.newTabSpec(""));
You can then get a handle to the individual tabs by calling: getTabWidget().getChildAt(4);
In essence, you are adding your OnClickListener to a child of the TabWidget. You can now pick up the clicks on your individual tab. However, this will override the default behavior which changes the content when a tab is clicked. So, to get your content to change, your OnClickListener will need to do that for you.
Here is a full example, which lets you intercept the click event, and change the content below the tab:
final String myTabTag = "My Tab";
final int myTabIndex = 3;
getTabHost().addTab( getTabHost().newTabSpec(myTabTag) );
getTabWidget().getChildAt(myTabIndex).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if (getTabHost().getCurrentTabTag().equals(myTabTag)) {
getTabHost().setCurrentTab(myTabIndex );
}
}
});

use setOnTabChangedListener instead of OnClickListener ;)
static TabHost tabHost;
tabHost = getTabHost();
tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onTabChanged(String arg0) {
Log.i("******Clickin Tab number ... ", "" + tabHost.getCurrentTab());
}
});

Your clause is wrong, use:
...
if (getTabHost().getCurrentTabTag().equals(myTabTag) == false) {
getTabHost().setCurrentTab(myTabIndex );
}
...

into my code, it shows some errors and ask me to create new methods in
those names like getTabWidget(), getTabHost(), etc. Waiting for your
response.
Try this
tabHost.getTabHost().setCurrentTab(myTabIndex);