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Kitesurfer
Kitesurfer

Reputation: 3561

Tabs on Main Section of ActionBar

How can i archive a Tab layout like this in Android ? The Tab Navigation is part of that Main ActionBar and is not below. PS: Im using ActionBar Sherlock

At the moment is just do:

actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);

Current ActionBar

But i want a look like this:

ActionBar Design

Thanks for help, Kitesurfer

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2701

Answers (4)

user149408
user149408

Reputation: 5901

Try this. This implements a method that will let you select whether you want the tabs in a separate row or in the top row, regardless of screen orientation.

For those who are using this code with the native ActionBar, simply omit the if (actionBar instanceof ActionBarWrapper) and the block underneath it.

Bear in mind, though, that this is somewhat of a hack and might break in future Android versions.

Upvotes: 0

CoatedMoose
CoatedMoose

Reputation: 4258

From this thread. On the topic of overriding the Action Bar tab functionality.

Jake Wharton

I am obligated to tell you this is probably a Bad Idea™ and I don't recommend it. When you fight the platform you almost always end up losing.

I am inclined to agree about fighting the platform. Instead I opted to abandon the stock tab navigation (from both the android platform and ABS library) and instead wrote a layout that looks basically the same as the tabs, and used it as a custom view, applying it using ActionBar.setCustomView(View) and ActionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true) methods.

This uses the ActionBar api in the standard way (ie. Not fighting the platform) and, as is pointed out in that thread, the tab view is simply a LinearLayout.

Upvotes: 0

Ahmad
Ahmad

Reputation: 72673

I don't recommend doing this but you could override the ActionBar and ABS styles:

<bool name="abs__action_bar_embed_tabs">false</bool> //for ActionBarSherlock
<bool name="action_bar_embed_tabs">false</bool> //for default ActionBar

Upvotes: 4

Androider
Androider

Reputation: 2804

Tab will be displayed in actions bar but only if action bar has space. When you are in landscape mode your tabs will move to action bar because in landscape mode action bar has more room.

Upvotes: 3

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