new android market layout

Question

the new android market does introduce a tab like control, as seen in these pictures

what control is it? the one saying "Editors Choice" in dark green, you could swipe it in the main activity.

i wanna know the name so i can research how to use it :)

Answer 1

It's a 'Scrollable Tab'

http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/tabs.html

http://developer.android.com/design/media/tabs_scrolly.mp4

Scroll down to scrolling tabs:

http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/swipe-views.html

They talk about implementation details here:

Swipe to switch tab selection

And as Mark mentioned a ViewPagerIndicator implementation here:

https://github.com/JakeWharton/Android-ViewPagerIndicator