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5,701 Pointsimplementing Designs for android. Challenging Challenge ;-/
Now switch to the ArtistActivity.java file. This also has tabs, but we are going to use icons instead of text. Set the icon for each tab using the setIcon() method, and use the value returned by the PagerAdapter's getIcon() method as the parameter for setIcon().
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity implements
ActionBar.TabListener {
// Some code has been omitted for brevity!
public ActionBar mActionBar;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
mActionBar = getActionBar();
mActionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
PagerAdapter pagerAdapter = new PagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
// Some code omitted for brevity...
for (int i = 0; i < pagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
ActionBar.Tab tab = mActionBar.newTab();
tab.setText(pagerAdapter.getPageTitle(i));
tab.setTabListener(this);
/*
* Add your code here to set the text!
*/
mActionBar.addTab(tab);
}
}
// These listener methods are intentionally blank
@Override
public void onTabSelected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) { }
@Override
public void onTabUnselected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) { }
@Override
public void onTabReselected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) { }
}
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
public class ArtistActivity extends FragmentActivity implements
ActionBar.TabListener {
// Some code has been omitted for brevity!
public ActionBar mActionBar;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_artist);
mActionBar = getActionBar();
mActionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
PagerAdapter pagerAdapter = new PagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
// Some code omitted for brevity...
for (int i = 0; i < pagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
ActionBar.Tab tab = mActionBar.newTab();
tab.setTabListener(this);
/*
* Add your code here to set the icon!
*/
mActionBar.addTab(tab);
}
}
// These listener methods are intentionally blank
@Override
public void onTabSelected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) { }
@Override
public void onTabUnselected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) { }
@Override
public void onTabReselected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) { }
}
import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter;
public class PagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
/*
* Some code has been omitted for brevity!
*/
public PagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
// code omitted
}
@Override
public int getCount() {
return 3;
}
@Override
public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
switch (position) {
case 0:
return "Songs";
case 1:
return "Albums";
case 2:
return "Artists";
}
return null;
}
public int getIcon(int position) {
switch (position) {
case 0:
return R.drawable.ic_tab_profile;
case 1:
return R.drawable.ic_tab_discography;
case 2:
return R.drawable.ic_tab_related_artists;
}
return R.drawable.ic_tab_profile;
}
}
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5,701 PointsAdlight Sibanda
5,701 Pointsi got it now: tab.setIcon(pagerAdapter.getIcon(i));