Question

I’m trying to get a tabbed layout working on android. Using an example I managed to get the tabs working but my different tabs are in different activities. Each tab is similar, it’s almost the same so I want them in the same activity.

I want an xml file in the layout folder as content.

This works, seperate classes:

tabSpec1.setIndicator("tabName1").setContent(new Intent(this, FirstTab.class));

This doesn’t work:

tabSpec2.setIndicator("tabName2").setContent(R.layout.tab);

The setContent function accepts id’s like that. The reference to tab is also in my R class. This is the XML in my tab:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="This is the tab from XML"/> </LinearLayout>

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to do this. One way is to add a view like Cephron has shown in another answer.

Depending on how similar the tab activities are. Another way to do this would be to pass the intent to the same activity with different extras and then parse them in the Activity code.

Something like:

Intent intent = new Intent(this, FirstTab.class);
intent.putExtra("callingTab", 1);
tabSpec1.setIndicator("tabName1").setContent();

You activity code can then use something like this:

 if (FirstTab.this.getIntent().getExtras() != null) {
      callingTab = this.getIntent().getExtras().getInt("callingTab");
 }

This will allow you to use the same layout for both activities with the minor changes you require coded in.