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Creating tabs using Fragments now that TabActivity is deprecated

I am creating an application which has five tabs at the bottom of the screen, each of which opens a different Activity.

My Tab Activity extends TabActivity which I have just read is deprecated and I should use Fragments instead.

How do I change my app to use Fragments instead? I have read the information on android.developer.com but I still have no idea how to do this.

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sam Avatar asked Sep 29 '11 15:09

sam


1 Answers

You will need to use the android compatibility library to use fragments. It can be found as a jar file in your android sdk folder.

There are many tutorials out there for fragments.

There is a project named ActionBarSherlock which demos all the capability of the compatibility library. Source code is also available on github. The link is on there site.

This is another tutorial http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-compatibility-working-with-fragments/

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blessanm86 Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 00:09

blessanm86