Question

I’ve setup my tabs as follows:

 spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("tab1").setIndicator("Tab 1").setContent(intent);
    tabHost.addTab(spec);

And now I have a tab that has no icon, only a title, but it just leaves an icon-sized blank space with the Title at the bottom – I tried adjusting the layout_height in the xml, but then the text is gone because it is rendered below the cutoff point.

How can I change the size of a tab, and have the title displayed without an icon?

Answer 1

The answer is simple: You can’t. The default android tab will always leave some blank space for the image.
But you can create your own tabs to compensate that “restriction” in the default tab. Here is a very good tutorial to create custom tabs.

http://joshclemm.com/blog/?p=136

Good luck,
Arkde