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Someonation
Someonation

Reputation: 175

How to make a tabHost in an Activity that is not a TabActivity

I made a tabHost in an Activty and everytime it reaches the .addTab(Spec) it crashes. I created the tab host in the Activity like so:

peopleTabHost = new TabHost(this);

and then I use a method to add the tab (I can do that because I defined the peopleTabHost as final outside of the onCreat)

    private void CreateNewTab(String tagName, String displayedName, Class<?> intentClass)
    {
          Intent intent = new Intent().setClass(this,  intentClass);
          TabHost.TabSpec spec = peopleTabHost.newTabSpec(tagName).setIndicator(displayedName);
          spec.setContent(intent);
          peopleTabHost.addTab(spec);       
    }

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 225

Answers (2)

jcxavier
jcxavier

Reputation: 2232

I second sianis' answer, but I'm also adding that it might be crashing because you are not initializing (or at least not showing) the tabhost.

Try to run peopleTabHost.setup(); right after calling the constructor.

Upvotes: 1

sianis
sianis

Reputation: 598

Why don't you use TabActivity? It is a class which extends ActivityGroup which extends Activity. So you can use a child of TabActivity class like a simple Activity, but it has some more functionality.

Upvotes: 0

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