Question

I wanted to change the background of Android tab widget. So I used this code

public static void setTabColor(TabHost tabhost) {
    for (int i = 0; i < tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildCount(); i++) {
        tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i).setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF")); //unselected
    }
    tabhost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(tabhost.getCurrentTab()).setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#000000")); // selected
}

In order to change the color of each tab, I had to implement onTabChangedListener on the object of the class TabHost.

tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new TabHost.OnTabChangeListener() {
            public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {

            }
        });

Now, my question is: how can I call the method setTabColor() from onTabChanged when I have no TabHost object to pass as the parameter?

Answer 1

You can set the tabHost variable final, then you can reference it inside of OnTabChangeListener. Another solution like this would be to make tabHost a member variable of your Activity, so you can reference it anytime.

Alternatively, if you are in a TabActivity, you can call getTabHost() at any time.