how to set the tabs in the bottom of the screen in android?

Question

hi all,

i am working on tabactivity.

i wanna show my tabwidget below the tabcontent(framelayout).

i done it by setting the tabwiget tab attribute as

android:gravity="bottom"

but the framelayout cant align with those tabs.

that is the tabs are shown at the bottom of the screen and overlap the framelayout

how to do that? if set some height value to the framelayout it not optimized for all screens of android. what can i do? any idea???

Answer 1

Android's examples to the rescue!

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html

Just swap tabcontent and tabs in res/layout/main.xml:

   <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:padding="5dp">
   <FrameLayout
            android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
            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" />

   </LinearLayout>

Answer 2

or just use a custom one from: http://code.google.com/p/androidtabs/

it allows tabs on the bottom

Answer 3

As this question is a duplicate, I will simply link to my full answer on the other question.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2395661/android-tabs-at-the-bottom/2710404#2710404

Answer 4

I post a solution on the other question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2395661/android-tabs-at-the-bottom/3533787#3533787

Hope it helps :)