You need to change the current selected tab. There's a method called setCurrentTabByTag(String tag)
in the TabHost
class that will do that, just pass the tag name of your tab (which in your case is B), or you can use the setCurrentTab(int index)
and pass the tab index.
Example. Usually I have a MainActivity class, which is my TabActivity. Inside of this class, I will create all tabs that I need on the onCreate method.
First I set some static int with the tabs indexes.
// Tab index.
public static int FIRST_TAB = 0;
public static int SECOND_TAB = 1;
Later, I create my tabs in the onCreate method.
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Setting the content view.
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// Getting the TabHost object.
mTabHost = getTabHost();
// Declaring the Intent object for the tabs.
Intent intent;
// Creating the First tab.
intent = new Intent().setClass(this, MyFirstActivity.class);
addTab(mTabHost, "First", FIRST_TAB, intent)
// Creating the Second tab.
intent = new Intent().setClass(this, MySecondActivity.class);
addTab(mTabHost, "Second", SECOND_TAB, intent);
// Setting the current tab.
switchTab(FIRST_TAB);
}
public void addTab(TabHost host, String title, String tag, Intent intent) {
TabHost.TabSpec spec = host.newTabSpec(tag);
spec.setContent(intent);
spec.setIndicator(title);
host.addTab(spec);
}
And last the method that will change the current tab.
public void switchTab(int index) {
mTabHost.setCurrentTab(index);
}
Later, inside of the MyFirstActivity you can call the MainActivity swichTab
method and pass the index of the tab to change it.
You can retrieve the MainActivity calling the getParent()
method of the Activity class.
MainActivity parent = (MainActivity)getParent();