Android Tabs in XML

Question

My question is simple. Is it possible to create tabs entirely in xml? My app has only one activity. I want to have 2 tabs that show the same data but in slightly different layouts. It seems like it should be but I cannot find anything on it.

TIA,

Mark

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 19 '11 at 19:09

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You can do something like this. Your layout for each tab would go inside a tabwidget. This will have it's limitations that you would easily get around if you employ a simple TabHost

 <TabHost 
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:id="@android:id/tabhost"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <!-- Tabs at bottom of screen -->
    <TabWidget
    android:background="@drawable/textview_top"
    android:layout_weight="12"
    android:id="@android:id/tabs"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dip"
    />
   </TabHost>

edited Mar 19 '11 at 19:09

Tushar Vengurlekar

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answered Mar 19 '11 at 14:23

apesa

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@codeHammer Don't forget the closing tag at the end. I had it pasted in the code blcok above, but it is not showing up. – apesa Mar 19 '11 at 14:32
Hidden part is displayed. You just need to push it by inserting some spaces. – Tushar Vengurlekar Mar 19 '11 at 19:02

Android Tabs in XML

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