Youtube style sliding Tab Layout in Android App

Question

The new Youtube app, and the newer version of JuiceDefender, contains a sliding tabbed layout similar to those seen in Windows 7 Phone. This is a UI feature I would like to include in an app I'm am designing but I cannot find any information or tutorials online. Has anyone seen a tutorial on this?

Answer 1

I believe it's implemented as a HorizontalScrollView containing a TabWidget with custom, fixed-width, tab indicator views.

Now, getting the tab content views to be paged horizontally is less easy, and that requires something like adapting Workspace.java in the Launcher.git project in AOSP.

Answer 2

I have found the answer to this question. The Sliding layout I described is a ViewPager, available from the Android Compatibility Package v4, which is available from the SDK installer.

A tutorial for this can be found here :http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-user-interface-design-horizontal-view-paging/

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Edit

An improvement over the Android Compatibility package is the http://actionbarsherlock.com/ an improvement over the support package that adds more Jelly bean style stuff.