Tabs+Swipe in Android for all API levels

Question

My plan is creating an Activity includes Tabs+Swipe for all Android version. If we set it from a default Android project, it has just support for at least API 11.

In Sherlock we have two project named : Tab Navigation, Tab Navigation(collapsed) includes Tabs but not Swipe. They have Issue #240 in their samples that has a bug (swipe left/right when the tabs are in collapsed mode (landscape) and the selected item does not update).

Do you know any sample code that solve this problem?

Answer 1

You made this now with the default Android Support Library (or the ABS), with a ViewPager and a PagerTabStrip:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/pager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <android.support.v4.view.PagerTabStrip
            android:id="@+id/tabStrip"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="top"/>

    </android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>

</LinearLayout>

Then create an Adapter to the ViewPager that extends of FragmentStatePagerAdapter (for example) and override the method public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) to provide a title for each tab.

Hope it helps.