Question

I’m still learning about Android, and while playing around with TabHost and TabWidget, I can’t help but notice that there’s no option to turn off the icons.

It’s eating up valuable space even when I don’t actually set an icon into the TabSpec. Is there any way to reduce the height of the tab bar? It’s really hard to find small icons (at 3 different sizes) that perfectly fits what I intended those tabs to contain. I have zero skills with graphics.

Answer 1

I have this:

        TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();  // The activity TabHost

Add code to add tabs into tab host… and then finally

        tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(0).getLayoutParams().height = 25;
        tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(1).getLayoutParams().height = 30;
        tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(2).getLayoutParams().height = 35;
        tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(3).getLayoutParams().height = 50;

Which (if you do not have pics) results in this:

It looks like 35 is a good number.. Perhaps it needs to be changed for different dpi.