Question

i have a tabActivity that hold 3 tabs.
from one tab i want to open another tab and run a method that refresh the data.

i use this method to switch tabs

public void switchTabInActivity(int indexTabToSwitchTo) {
        MyTabsActivity ParentActivity;
        ParentActivity = (MyTabsActivity) this.getParent();
        ParentActivity.switchTab(indexTabToSwitchTo);
    }

to open the tab but i cant’ call the method.

any ideas?

Answer 1

According to me, I believe what you are doing here is correct, but still you are not doing the entire flow. Let me explain,

Calling the above method will redirect you to that particular tab. But what you actually have to do is to execute some method in that class. But were are you calling that method.

Consider a Activity with onCreate(),

you could have called that method in your onCreate(). But now when you execute your

public void switchTabInActivity(int indexTabToSwitchTo) {
        MyTabsActivity ParentActivity;
        ParentActivity = (MyTabsActivity) this.getParent();
        ParentActivity.switchTab(indexTabToSwitchTo);
    }

method, this will call the onResume() of that activity. So my suggestion would be to override the onResume method of your particular activity which has that method..