I have an Android application for pre-Honeycomb devices that uses custom tabs to launch various activities in the app. I'm using Android Compatibility Library and each activity contains one fragment.
I want to develop the app for Honeycomb devices also and I would like to use the tabs in the actionbar for version >= 11 instead of the custom tabs that i use in versions < 11.
My first question is if it is possible to use the tabs in the actionbar for launching activities and if yes, how? I see from the documentation that the main purpose of the tabs is to show/hide fragments and not entire activities.
What other solutions do I have?
EDIT:
I can see that I can call other activities from my implementation of ActionBar.TabListener so I think this would work. Is there a possible problem with this approach?
Yes, it is possible to launch activities from tabs. However, it's a bit tricky because some of the TabListener callbacks are called even when creating the tabs for the first time.
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I've been working on a school project in a course for Mobile prototype for a couple of weeks when our mentor said we should change our way of navigate in the app.
Before the app started with a simple menu where the user could chose which feature to open, which could be different activities, listactivities, mapactivities, activities with custom views, ect.
We then found the ActionBarSherlock library which could help us make a nice tab bar. But should we then change our activities to be fragments (supportfragments runs 2.3.3) or can we keep it as (normal) activities? if so how to best show this under each tab.
Actionbarsherlock have been implemented successfully in our apps start activity and now we "only" need to make the navigation to the existing the activities or change them to fragments.
Do tell if this isn't clear what have described or you need any further information.
If you wish you can only use Activities with ActionBarSherlock
It all depends on what your want to achieve and the use of fragment might help you making a cleaner app.
Actionbarsherlock sample:
1° tab bar with fragment & viewpager
2° tab bar with fragment
I have developed this application which uses an ActivityGroup to switch between Activitys in a tab. I have downloaded the newest AdMob SDK, forcing me to use a targetSdkVersion of 13 instead of 8. Because of that, I get the warning that ActivityGroup is deprecated.
What is the new way of switching between Activitys in a single tab? I'd rather keep my minSdkVersion at 8. And are there any examples of it?
What is the new way of switching between Activitys in a single tab?
There is no "new way of switching between Activitys in a single tab". The closest thing to a "new way" is to not use activities-in-tabs, but to use fragments-in-tabs, or tabs in the action bar (that alter the UI, such as by changing fragments).
The JavaDocs for TabActivity show how to implement fragments-in-tabs.
I'm developing an application and I want to place two activities in a tabbed layout. I need the ability for the first activity to send an intent and programmatically switch to the second tabbed activity. This seems possible and is outlined in other posts:
Launching activities within a tab in Android
However, this approach doesn't seem advisable and it makes use of ActivityGroup, which is now deprecated. Can anyone recommend a stable solution that would meet my design needs?
You may want to take a look at ViewPager from the support library, coupled with https://github.com/JakeWharton/Android-ViewPagerIndicator/blob/master/library/src/com/viewpagerindicator/TabPageIndicator.java
It will produce a tab-like interface that you can swipe through. You can explicitly change which tab is being shown by calling viewPager.setCurrentItem(int).
I need to do a tabbed layout with dynamically populated listviews inside each tab and I'm unsure which method to use, since tabActivity has been deprecated.
Do I absolutely need to use fragments to achieve this correctly? Can't it be done with Tabhost + an activity for each tab? If so, what's the way around not using Tabactivity?
Thanks
TabActivity has been deprecated in favour of fragments as of Android 3.0 (API Level 11) which isn't very popular yet. http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
I say develop your app with tabs.
Can I implement a tab host which will remain in overall application and works through out the application .
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Also can i implement the tab host on the top and on the bottom of the same activity.
Any tutorial any help please....
Thanks
This is possible if you use Activity Group. But still it is deprecated and hence you cannot use it for newer versions of android. But still, you can go through what it is and try to implement it.
ActivityGroup Example
http://blog.henriklarsentoft.com/2010/07/android-tabactivity-nested-activities/
http://gamma-point.com/content/android-how-have-multiple-activities-under-single-tab-tabactivity
So now since Activity Groups are deprecated what is the alternate strategy we can make use of? Here is the solution for this problem.
Go for fragments or Views.
I have pasted the comment which I recieved from Commonsware regarding the ActivityGroup.
You never needed ActivityGroup to use tabs. You can put views in tabs, for example (github.com/commonsguy/cw-android/tree/master/Fancy/Tab). Going forward, tabs are in the action bar on Honeycomb, typically using fragments. You can achieve the same functionality on previous versions of Android using ActionBarSherlock.