What to choose between Action bar or TabLayout?

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I'm developing for ICS. In a test activity, I need to display a top bar which has the number of questions. User can jump to any question by clicking on any question number in top bar. Now after a considerable research, I was going for horizontal listview but I guess thats not gonna work for me. I have two options now, either use Action bar or tablayout. Now which one to choose, I'll be developing in both of them for the first time.

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '12 at 12:43

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I think the TableLayout will be the best option. So that you can additionally insert Views and can constomize it as you want

answered Sep 18 '12 at 12:43

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In which one views can be added dynamically? And please redirect me to some example of it. – Ayush Goyal Sep 18 '12 at 12:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 18 '12 at 12:27

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Table layout if you are looking for backward compatibility or else actionbar.

answered Sep 18 '12 at 12:27

Gan

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ActionBar can be totally backward compatible, you just have to use ActioBar Sherlock – Teovald Sep 18 '12 at 12:44
ActionBar can be totally backward compatible, you just have to use ActioBar Sherlock. I think that the choice is between a view control in your actionbar (cf http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html ) or implementing a table layout. A table layout would probably be preferable if your list is 15 elements long – Teovald Sep 18 '12 at 12:49
In which one views can be added dynamically? And please redirect me to some example of it. – Ayush Goyal Sep 18 '12 at 12:50

What to choose between Action bar or TabLayout?

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