Question

I’m trying to do the Tab Layout tutorial and my code crashes because of “Source not found”
on the lines :

    intent = new Intent().setClass(this, FavouritesActivity.class);
    spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("favourites").setIndicator("favourites",
                      res.getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_tab_favourites))
                  .setContent(intent);
    tabHost.addTab(spec);

and to be more specific it crashes on :

res.getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_tab_favourites)

I do have a class named FavouritesActivity and ic_tab_favourites.xml‬ file on res/drawable
(Eclipse even autocompletes those two…).

Any idea on what could be wrong ?

edit: I found that the code in ic_tab_favourites.xml‬ is the problem, the code is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- When selected, use grey -->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_tab_favourites_gray"
      android:state_selected="true" />
<!-- When not selected, use white-->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_tab_favourites_white" />
</selector>

and the problem is with the drawable resources “ic_tab_favourites_gray”, “ic_tab_favourites_white”.

but I don’t know why, Eclipse autocompletes them when I edit the .xml file and I do have
ic_tab_favourites_gray.ico,
ic_tab_favourites_white.ico

edit 2 : if for example I change the .xml to :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- When selected, use grey -->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_tab_main_gray"
      android:state_selected="true" />
<!-- When not selected, use white-->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_tab_main_gray" />
</selector>

than it works (but ofcourse I don’t want ic_tab_main_gray icon for this tab…)

Answer 1

have you used Resources res = getResources();
in tabs activity?