Horizontal Tabs in Android

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How to implement horizontally scrollable tabs?

I would like to implement tabs in an app that essentially also allows swiping between two screens. A good example would be in the App section in the Google Play store. There are horizontal scrollable tabs up top and they move as the screen scrolls.

I am targeting Android 4.0 with this but need to make it backwards compatible.

I am obviously not asking anyone to write the entirety of code on this, I simply am looking for a tutorial somewhere, or advice on how to go about starting this. The Dev site show exactly what I want here: http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/tabs.html

But doesn't show HOW to do this (or at least make it visibly clear); it only says that's its good practice to do.

Yes, but that is older implementation. I believe they have new recommendation now then what that shows? — TheLettuceMaster, Jun 26 '12 at 15:54
An older (???) implementation that works just fine and follow the rules. What's up with that about old code anyways? — davidcesarino, Jun 26 '12 at 16:40
As in, I thought Google deprecated one method in favor of another. Happens all the time. — TheLettuceMaster, Jun 26 '12 at 19:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 26 '12 at 15:41

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take a look at this API, I use it and its very easy to implement

ViewPagerIndicator

answered Jun 26 '12 at 15:41

tyczj

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Is this free for commercial use? – Signcodeindie Jan 17 '13 at 07:22
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its open source, plenty of applications in the market use it – tyczj Jan 17 '13 at 15:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '12 at 15:39

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This is usually done by using ViewPager class. In order to make it backward compatible take a look at the ActionBarSherlock project; there you will find examples on how to implement this kind of design pattern and make it work even on Android 1.6.

Also, as Alex said, you can take a look at the ViewPageIndicator project of the same developer if you don't want to care about an action bar.

answered Jun 26 '12 at 15:39

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[`ViewPagerIndicator`](http://viewpagerindicator.com/) is a possibility too, if the OP doesn't care about the action bar at all. – Alex Lockwood Jun 26 '12 at 15:41
You are right Alex. Thanks for pointing it out. – Cristian Jun 26 '12 at 15:42
No point in importing the entire `ActionBarSherlock` library for no reason... that thing is huge :) – Alex Lockwood Jun 26 '12 at 15:45
I never even considered it, but for these two activities, I wouldn't necessarily need an ActionBar. – TheLettuceMaster Jun 26 '12 at 15:55

Horizontal Tabs in Android

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