This is my first open source project. It's a scrollable TabHost.
I put this in code snippet because it isn't exactly a full app. Just a widget for developers to integrate into their application

http://bit.ly/7DWtjt

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq8Tbcp8mQs[/youtube]

Thank you.
It looks so promising.

I was searching for something like this at one point and could not find one.
will check it out soon

Let me know if you have any suggestions, or if you like to contribute updates to the projects.

Next time I'll do it probably to give devs the option to turn on/off the scrollview. If scrollview is off, it'll group the buttons in the non-visible region and put it as a the last button as a list, just like iPhone.

Hello honcheng,
its a nice thing, relatively easy to adopt in my application.
I have one question left: I click on one tab which loads up a new Activity. This activity contains a ListView and in case I click on one ListItem it should switch to an other tab. How could I achieve this? In other words: How to access the tabs from a class that does not extend ScrollableTabActiviy?

Thank you!
Boni

you may try making the TabHost as a static variable and then access it from the other class and use setCurrentTab method there.
in your class[MyTabActivity] that extends TabActivityAnd then in your other activityI never tried it though but I do not see why it should not work.

TabHost? I used to try this on ScrollableTabActivity

Thank you anyway, I'm sure I'm gonna need this knowledge elsewhere!

Boni2k wrote:Hello honcheng,
its a nice thing, relatively easy to adopt in my application.
I have one question left: I click on one tab which loads up a new Activity. This activity contains a ListView and in case I click on one ListItem it should switch to an other tab. How could I achieve this? In other words: How to access the tabs from a class that does not extend ScrollableTabActiviy?

Thank you!
Boni

I'm not sure hoe to call methods available in the previous activity. I assume the activity group I'd considered the previous activity n the currently display activity is the current. The only way I can think of is using broadcastreceivers. Tried it n works. Will commit soon. I don't think it's the best solution. Let me know if you know any

Boni2k wrote:Hello honcheng,
its a nice thing, relatively easy to adopt in my application.
I have one question left: I click on one tab which loads up a new Activity. This activity contains a ListView and in case I click on one ListItem it should switch to an other tab. How could I achieve this? In other words: How to access the tabs from a class that does not extend ScrollableTabActiviy?

Thank you!
Boni

Hi,
check the latest commit I made. I have made this function available. You can compile and look at the demo.
I am not sure what is the best way for the Activity to communicate with the ActivityGroup, so I used BroadcastReceiver. May not be the best way.

Thanks a lot, works fine! Just what I wanted
Just two little thing left:

1. Demo Scrollable TabHost3 seems to ignore any title, is that on purpose?
2. In line 88 of TabBarButton.java and in line 79 of RadioStateDrawable.java there is R.drawable.bottom_bar_highlight mentioned. I guess it's just like the background oh the Tabbar from the iPhone if it's activated. This looks pretty neat but I did not find a way to make use of this.

If my tabicon would have a title (1.) and this background (2.) it would be awesome.

Greetings!

Boni2k wrote:Thanks a lot, works fine! Just what I wanted
Just two little thing left:

1. Demo Scrollable TabHost3 seems to ignore any title, is that on purpose?
2. In line 88 of TabBarButton.java and in line 79 of RadioStateDrawable.java there is R.drawable.bottom_bar_highlight mentioned. I guess it's just like the background oh the Tabbar from the iPhone if it's activated. This looks pretty neat but I did not find a way to make use of this.

If my tabicon would have a title (1.) and this background (2.) it would be awesome.

Greetings!

you must have gone through the code thoroughly. Those are bugs.
If I remove the background image, it somehow causes title not rendered fully. The one without title is also a known bug. I'm not sure what's the problem yet.

Are u familiar enough with android to fix that?

Boni2k wrote:Thanks a lot, works fine! Just what I wanted
Just two little thing left:

1. Demo Scrollable TabHost3 seems to ignore any title, is that on purpose?
2. In line 88 of TabBarButton.java and in line 79 of RadioStateDrawable.java there is R.drawable.bottom_bar_highlight mentioned. I guess it's just like the background oh the Tabbar from the iPhone if it's activated. This looks pretty neat but I did not find a way to make use of this.

If my tabicon would have a title (1.) and this background (2.) it would be awesome.

Greetings!

you must have gone through the code thoroughly. Those are bugs.
If I remove the background image, it somehow causes title not rendered fully. The one without title is also a known bug. I'm not sure what's the problem yet.

Are u familiar enough with android to fix that?

honcheng wrote:you must have gone through the code thoroughly. Those are bugs.
If I remove the background image, it somehow causes title not rendered fully. The one without title is also a known bug. I'm not sure what's the problem yet.

Are u familiar enough with android to fix that?

Hello,
actually I'm still not too familiar with it. Though I will try to fix it this day by myself. But I'm not too confident that I can fix it. It would be the last thing I want - I will soon release my application. It's an application for a german community called "KWICK!". This is the current state: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyMao5HNSXI

Many greetings, Jonas

Boni2k wrote:

honcheng wrote:you must have gone through the code thoroughly. Those are bugs.
If I remove the background image, it somehow causes title not rendered fully. The one without title is also a known bug. I'm not sure what's the problem yet.

Are u familiar enough with android to fix that?

Hello,
actually I'm still not too familiar with it. Though I will try to fix it this day by myself. But I'm not too confident that I can fix it. It would be the last thing I want - I will soon release my application. It's an application for a german community called "KWICK!". This is the current state: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyMao5HNSXI

Many greetings, Jonas

It looks a bit odd in the video. When you click on a button, it turns green, but momentarily turns gray again. It does not happen in the demo. Is that what you want? Or is it another bug?

Hey,
I'm not sure about it. But I didn't edited it to act like this. It turns grey when a ProgressDialog is called and turns green again when it disappears. But that's not too disturbing
Jonas

Boni2k wrote:Hey,
I'm not sure about it. But I didn't edited it to act like this. It turns grey when a ProgressDialog is called and turns green again when it disappears. But that's not too disturbing
Jonas

it feels like a bug, which it is
just to check again, if the page loads without progressdialog, it doesn't blink like that?