Question

I have been reading your posts and they are very helpful. However, I really need your experienced advise in this and what would you do if you were me.
I am doing and application in which is has 4 tabs. The layout of the 4 tabs is similar (a table that has values in its cells and 3 buttons, and textview). The only thing that changes from one tab to another is the table values and textview. However, I need to share data between the tabs as the values on each tab are dependent on previous tab

How do you think I should approach? I have been reading that using views is generally recommended over activites. Can I use the same view layout for all the tabs?

Please any help on how you would design it will be great. I am on 2.1 and targetting pretty much all platforms .THANK U

PS: I tried (as an example) having textview under the framelayout, but the problem is that changing the text in Java code will make the textview changes in all the tabs. For some reason, I am feeling that having 4 text views (one for each tab) is kinda redundant and bad design but I dont know!

Answer 1

I would approach this by defining a layout, and using that same layout in each of your tabs. E.g.

public class MyTabActivity1 extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.tab_layout);
    }