Question

I got stuck with Jake Wharton ViewPagerIndicator.

The problem is that when I try to make a Tab indicator – the result I’m getting is extremely different from what I need and I can’t get to style it or make it behave as it should.

So, what I ask for is two things:
1) Am I right when I say that TabIndicator is Foursquare-like ViewPagerIndicator? (when all tabs are shown on screen)
2) Can anyone provide me links to some tutorials or samples of using this type of ViewPagerIndicator, cause samples from JWs’ site don’t want to get working.

Thanks a lot for your attention!

Answer 1

moskis is right on about ViewPagerIndicator. Installing that APK helped me a lot when I first started working with it and it is a great library.

However, to answer the first part of your question and what I think you are asking in general, I think ViewPagerIndicator isn’t what you need to solve this specific problem. Foursquare’s tabs at the top are the standard Android tabs as shown in http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/tabs.html.

Standard Android tabs are implemented using a TabHost and TabWidget. There is an official tutorial about creating a tabbed interface at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/tabs.html

Foursquare achieves a custom look by providing state-list drawables for the tabs and you will probably want to provide your own to get the style that you want for your app.

Note that I don’t have access to the Foursquare implementation, but am going off of what I observe whiel using the app. However, I have implemented a tabbed interface for Android in past projects.