iPhone- like tab bar in Android?

Question

In iPhone we can create a view that has a tab bar and make it the root view of the application then use the tab bar to navigate through sub views.

what is the most close approach to this in Android?

Is it to use a Tabbed Control? but this includes using just one activity.

what is the approach to use in Android to create an activity with a navigation control to other activities in a way similar to that of the iPhone?

Hyperostosis

Update: hi all, I've found another approach to do this. check my blogpost android-pro.blogspot.com/2010/08/… – Hyperostosis

Answer 1

There's a tutorial for creating a "Tab Layout" on the android dev site:

You can implement your tab content in one of two ways: use the tabs to swap Views within the same Activity, or use the tabs to change between entirely separate activities

_{(source: android.com)}

Trodden

Answer 2

Sorry, I really don't know the iPhone, but may a QuickAction Dialog help you??

http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-create-quickaction-dialog-in-android/

I imagine a list of some activities in that dialog.

I hope this is close to what you want.

Burschenschaft

Answer 3

There are a couple of examples around

http://www.anddev.org/code-snippets-for-android-f33/iphone-tabs-for-android-t14678.html

This one is scrollable http://code.google.com/p/mobyfactory-uiwidgets-android/

Trevelyan

Answer 4

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
android:id="@android:id/tabhost" 
android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"        
android:layout_marginBottom="0dp" 
>
    <FrameLayout
    android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"            
    android:layout_weight="1" 
    />

    <TabWidget
    android:id="@android:id/tabs"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="0"
   />
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>

Babul

TabHost, TabActivity etc is depreciated, isn't it? – Gnu