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Asked: 2026-06-06T12:03:17+00:00

This is the code I am using to set the divider between by tabs

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This is the code I am using to set the divider between by tabs in the tab host.

mTabHost.getTabWidget().setDividerDrawable(R.drawable.tabdivider);

But it does not show up in the emulator. Searching around on SO led me to many posts regarding this but I have not been able to come to a perfect solution to this.

Any help/suggestion in this regard will be really helpful.

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  1. Editorial Team

    TabHost is deprecated in android api level 11 onwards.

    Try using ActionBar.

    For more details, see this.

    UPDATE:

    Please see this, for using setDrawable in ICS.

    UPDATE:
    If you want to make use of tabs on all android versions, you can use the following code:

    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {

// setup action bar for tabs
    ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
    actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
    actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

    Tab tab = actionBar.newTab()
            .setText(R.string.artist)
            .setTabListener(new TabListener<ArtistFragment>(
                    this, "artist", ArtistFragment.class));
    actionBar.addTab(tab);

    tab = actionBar.newTab()
        .setText(R.string.album)
        .setTabListener(new TabListener<AlbumFragment>(
                this, "album", AlbumFragment.class));
    actionBar.addTab(tab);
} else {

// put your TabHost code here...

}

    This should be placed in your onCreate() method.

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