Question

I’m looking to have 3 or 4 tabs, which will each lead to a different activity. However, so far it appears that I am going to have to set up the tabs in each individual activity.

Is there a simple way to declare a set of tabs under the actionbar, and keep the state consistent, even when activities are switched?

Answer 1

Use Fragments. This will require one activity and n fragments (where n is the number of tabs).

Jake Wharton has provided some sample code illustrating how you can implement this behavior.