How to disable tabs from the activities inside the tabs in Android

Question

My application has a TabActivity which contains 4 tabs. Each tab contains the corresponding activities.

The activity in the first tab is the Boot Activity. Based on some conditions I have to enable/disable the other 3 tabs from this Activity.

Can anyone help in enabling/disabling tabs from activities inside the tab?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '11 at 04:08

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I think you are talking about hiding a tab.
Then use the following

Get TabHost from resource as

TabHost  tabHost = (TabHost)findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);

Then runtime use this

tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(3).setVisibility(View.GONE);

Supposing that you are trying to hide 4th Tab.(So 3 is used)

answered May 18 '11 at 04:08

Tanmay Mandal

hi Tanmay . thanks for the reply. the problem is i want to disable the tab2 and tab3 and tab4 from the Activity present inside the Tab1. – bHaRaTh May 18 '11 at 04:11
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I have shown you how to disable a tab.Now use it as you want. – Tanmay Mandal May 18 '11 at 04:21

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 14 '12 at 07:52

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tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(3).setEnabled(false)

edited Sep 14 '12 at 07:52

Baz

answered Sep 14 '12 at 07:48

Mikey

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