how to use android tabs in the same Activity

Question

Hallo,

Any idea where I can find a simple tabs example?

The Android Developers Hello Views Tab Layout example only details how to use separate Activities for each Tab.

I would like to use tabs to extend a screen of settings without scrolling, i.e. there are too many options for a single screen, so I'd like to split them over two tabs, but still handle them in the same Activity.

Each tab can refer to a separate layout file if that is how it needs to be done,

TIA,

-Frink

Answer 1

In your tabhost instead of passing an intent you can pass a viewID

Answer 2

if your tabs don't need to be dynamic you can just load the views in the xml file. Just like in this example http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html