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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

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protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.home_layout);
TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();
TabHost.TabSpec myprofiletab = tabHost.newTabSpec("Profile");
myprofiletab.setIndicator("Profile",getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.myprofile_icon));
Intent myprofileintent = new Intent(this,MyProfile.class);
myprofiletab.setContent(myprofileintent);
TabHost.TabSpec newsfeedtab = tabHost.newTabSpec("NewsFeed");
newsfeedtab.setIndicator("Feed",getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.newsfeed_icon));
Intent feed = new Intent(this,NewsFeed.class);
newsfeedtab.setContent(feed);
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tabHost.addTab(myprofiletab);
}
Here is the home_layout
<?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_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<RelativeLayout
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"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Solved my problem by adding one line to my FrameLayout
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_above="#android:id/tabs" />

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I created activity with tabhost: Code below:
<TabHost
android:id="#+id/tabhost1_zabytek"
android:background="#null"
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="40dp"
android:background="#drawable/tlo12"
/>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:background="#null"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
And programically try set text position:
TabHost host= (TabHost) findViewById(R.id.tabhost1_zabytek);
final View view = host.getTabWidget().getChildTabAt(0);
final textView = view.findViewById(R.id.title);
((TextView) textView).setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
So , when I run my application on device with android 4.1 all is ok.
But, when I run my application on device with android 2.3, application display text on tabhost in a wrong position.
My application should display text position Gravity.Center on each version Android. What should I do?? How solve my problem?

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I'm currently trying to create an application according the customer's specs, and these include a double tab set.
Meaning that the user needs to click in a tab at the bottom, and for example in the first tab, he will also see a set of tabs at the top where he can click (but when clicking in these, only the ones at the top will change, while the tabs at the bottom will remain the same).
How could I perform this with Android?
So far I could only implement the normal tabs creating a root item 'TabHost' just 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" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
</FrameLayout>
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
</TabHost>
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I found this, thanks to the ActionBar (and SherlockActionBar for pre-Honeycomb devices):
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/ActionBarTabs.html
and also this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMu8XhxUBl8

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I am working on a Android project. In my project I am using tab layout. It works fine but all tabs background is black and when I am selecting any tab ,that tabs background changes to light brown.Is it possible to give custom color?
my xml file is
<?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:id="#+id/LinearLayout01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
></TabWidget>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
></FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
my java code is
Resources res = getResources();
TabHost tb=getTabHost();
Intent i;
TabHost.TabSpec spec;
spec = tb.newTabSpec("mee").setIndicator ("home").setContent(i);
tb.addTab(spec);
spec=tb.newTabSpec("contacts").setIndicator("search").setContent(i);
tb.addTab(spec);

Sure :)
You should define and use styles.
I suggest you to read here - http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html