How to get a view from an Activity similar to a TabHost

Question

I am trying to make an Accordian control where each section would have its own view accompanied with its own activity. With the TabHost I can add tabs based on Intents and it is this behavior I am trying to understand how to use. So given an intent or an activity how can i get the view?

Answer 1

When building things like that, you maybe want to use the ActivityGroup class, which allows you to manipulate a group of activities. There, you can do things like:

// this will give you the view
View view = getLocalActivityManager()
    .startActivity("NewsActiviy", intentRoot)
    .getDecorView();

If you are working directly from an Activity, and want to get its view, you will do something like this:

// this will give you the view
View view = getWindow().getDecorView();