tabhost

Why is my onSharedPreferenceChangeListener being called multiple times when I change a pref.

I've written an app with 3 tabs. Each tab has the same list view with different data sources. I have setup SharedPreferences in the tabhost activity, but I put my onSharedPreferenceChangeListener method in my listactivity. When I change a preference, my listener gets called and it updates my database. This is all working. However, i...

Android TabHost: update tabs from tab's activity

I have a TabActivity and am going to have 3 or 4 tabs. In TabA, I would like to have an ExpandableListView, which will list products. I would like TabC to act as a sort of "shopping cart", probably with a ListView of itself. So, my question is: is there a way to interact with the TabHost from the Activity? I would like to be able to cl...

Android force tab activity creation?

I have an Android application with a main activity that is the tabhost. I'm adding multiple tabs to the tabhost with an intent to several activities. My problem is that these activities are not created (onCreate is not called) until I click on the tab. This is a problem because I need to register broadcastreceivers: there may be broadca...

Emulate back button in multi-view TabActivity

Hi, all I have a TabActivity with several tabs. Each tab corresponds to a specific view, and those views may further switch to other views. For example, one of my tabs displays RSS feed list, after user clicks one of the RSS feed, it will switch to a view displaying a list of articles, and after user clicks one of the titles, a full art...

Android Activity call another Activity method

Hello, A TabActivity start other activity when i click on a tab, How to send information to parent (tabActivity) and don't finish current activity? My tabactivity start another activity like this : mTabHost.addTab( mTabHost.newTabSpec(TAB_OPTIONS) .setIndicator(TabImgFond5) .setContent(intentOptions)); Inside my n...

Tab widget example not running

I'm trying to reproduce the tabwidget example (http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html). I'm not really sure what's the problem, I got no errors while compiling, but i cannot see the application on the emulators screen. It would be excellent if maybe anyone could have a look at my classes and tell me ...

Android: TabHost

Hi, I have a question in regards to http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html Lots of issues are already discussed but this example only works for me if I in the onCreate() method do NOT use setContentView(R.layout.main); Why is that? What do I have to do if I want to mix a tab layout with other element...

Problem with TabHost UI layout.

What I'm trying to do is create a layout like this: +--------+ Search |EditText| [Button] +--------+ +---------+ |Tab 1 |---------+ | |Tab 2 | |---------+---------+-----------------+ | ListView Item 1 | | ListView Item 2 | | ListView Item 3 | | Lis...

How can change my TabHost ?

I have a tabhost, e.g: final TabHost tabs = getTabHost(); tabs.setup(); TabHost.TabSpec spec = null; spec = tabs.newTabSpec("search"); spec.setContent(new Intent(this, Search.class)); spec.setIndicator("search"); tabs.addTab(spec); in this tabhost is a Intent,and in the activity must chan...

embedding layout inside each tab? - (each tab has its own activity)

I have started with the HelloTabwidget example and it works fine. Now what I am trying to do is have a layout inside each tab. here is what the code looks like myApp extends TabActivity { TabHost tabHost; onCreate() { setContentView (R.layout.main); tabHost = getTabHost(); TabHost.tabspec spec = tabHost.newTabSpec(...

Switch back to previously selected tab after the activity is recreated

In my TabActivity the user may be asked to switch to browser activity for OAuth phase, and if the phase takes too much time, my activity will be killed. After the user switches back to my activity, its onCreate() method is invoked again and tabs are recreated. So I would like to know if there is any simple way to switch back to previous...

Android on TabHost little more depth of the problem, there is the hard return key on the treatment.

Hello everybody, I have a question on the Android Activity, for example I have a TabHost, and there are included four Activities, the first tab is a search Activity, enter a keyword in the current result of this Activity to return, and in the current Activity display. Is called to display the search results themselves. And after searchin...

Android : ListView onClick event in the tabs

Hi guys, I'm just a newbie in Android world. I tried to add a ListView inside a tab (or actually in activity), and each listview will be displaying another view that contains component such text, image and etc. this components is got to be dynamic, will be set within the source program listview layout : <LinearLayout xmlns:android="ht...

Android OnTabChangingListener

The TabHost widget has a setOnTabChangedListener() method to run code when the tab changes, but I need to run code before the tab changes, in order to validate the data entered. Is this possible? I was thinking about using a click listener but it seems like it would be fiddly to get it to detect clicks on items, and I'm still not sure ho...

Unexpected visual element in a simple Tab layout

The screen shot below is of a simplified version of the application from the Tab Layout tutorial. You can see a black horizontal line below the tabs. Why is it there and how can I remove it? ...

Where can I find Android Tab Icons

Does anybody know of a website where I can find Android TabHost icons? (free or paid) ...

Android TabHost - Activities within each tab

I'm trying to create multiple tabs, each with a different Activity. The only downside is i'm using a custom layout file thus my class extends an Activity rather than a TabActivity. While trying to run, it fails and suggests calling TabHost.Setup(ActivityGroupManager agm) Anyone have an idea/practical example of how this can be achieved?...

How do I change the icon, when a tab is selected X?

I have a tabhost with icon, when a tab is selected X, the icon does not appear because the icon is the same color as the selected tab. The question is: How do I change the icon, when a tab is selected X? ...

Creating a tabbed UI without using Layout

As per the android developer docs for creating tab UI you need to have a TabHost and TabWidget and the TabHost must be the root node for the layout. All perfect, I tried the example and everything's fine. Just while looking at the API Samples of tabs, I came across tabs1.java (http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src...

After following Android's Tab Layout tutorial, my tabs' contents overlap, what am I doing wrong?

After following Android's Tab Layout Tutorial, the contents of all 3 of my tabs are always visible, rather than each tab only display it's associated activity. Rather than copy my code here, I can tell you that it is almost verbatim from the tutorial. Below is a screenshot: The date picker and text boxes are in an Intent associated wi...