how to Keep Tabhost when start other activity

Question

I have a problem with TabHost...

I have TabBarActivity class flow as :

public class TabBarActivity extends TabActivity implements OnTabChangeListener{

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Answer 1

How to use:

In one tab of some tabs such as 4 tabs, every tab extends the TabActivity, in witch u start your really activity using the method startChildActivity.

code

public class Tab_BookCityActivity extends TabGroupActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    startChildActivity("BookCityActivity", new Intent(this, BookCityActivity.class));

    }
}

Answer 2

You have to use TabGroupActivity class,

further more u have to implement Tab1Activity class and Tab2Activity class which are extends from TabGroupActivity

where you will call startChildActivity(TAB1.class) and startChildActivity(TAB2.class) respectively, by this you will have options for your tabs whether u r in TAB1 or TAB2.

you can have the TabGroupActivity class implemented sample good onlinely,

recently i had simillar project thats y m stating like this.

Answer 3

You can achieve this using this custom class :

import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ActivityGroup;
import android.app.LocalActivityManager;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.view.Window;

/*
 * The purpose of this Activity is to manage the activities in a tab.
 * Note: Child Activities can handle Key Presses before they are seen here.
 * @author Eric Harlow
 */
public class TabGroupActivity extends ActivityGroup {

    private ArrayList<String> mIdList;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);       
        if (mIdList == null) mIdList = new ArrayList<String>();
    }

    /*
     * This is called when a child activity of this one calls its finish method. 
     * This implementation calls {@link LocalActivityManager#destroyActivity} on the child activity
     * and starts the previous activity.
     * If the last child activity just called finish(),this activity (the parent),
     * calls finish to finish the entire group.
     */
  @Override
  public void finishFromChild(Activity child) {
      LocalActivityManager manager = getLocalActivityManager();
      int index = mIdList.size()-1;

      if (index < 1) {
              finish();
              return;
          }

          manager.destroyActivity(mIdList.get(index), true);
          mIdList.remove(index);
          index--;
          String lastId = mIdList.get(index);
          Intent lastIntent = manager.getActivity(lastId).getIntent();
          Window newWindow = manager.startActivity(lastId, lastIntent);
          setContentView(newWindow.getDecorView());
  }

  /*
   * Starts an Activity as a child Activity to this.
   * @param Id Unique identifier of the activity to be started.
   * @param intent The Intent describing the activity to be started.
   * @throws android.content.ActivityNotFoundException.
   */
  public void startChildActivity(String Id, Intent intent) {     
      Window window = getLocalActivityManager().startActivity(Id,intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP));
      if (window != null) {
          mIdList.add(Id);
          setContentView(window.getDecorView()); 
      }    
  }

  /*
   * The primary purpose is to prevent systems before android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ECLAIR
   * from calling their default KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK during onKeyDown.
   */
  @Override
  public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
      if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
          //preventing default implementation previous to android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ECLAIR
          return true;
      }
      return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
  }

  /*
   * Overrides the default implementation for KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK 
   * so that all systems call onBackPressed().
   */
  @Override
  public boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
      if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
          onBackPressed();
          return true;
      }
      return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
  }

  /*
   * If a Child Activity handles KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK.
   * Simply override and add this method.
   */
  @Override
  public void  onBackPressed  () {
      int length = mIdList.size();
      if ( length >=1) {
          Activity current = getLocalActivityManager().getActivity(mIdList.get(length-1));
          current.finish();
      }
  }
}

And using like this :

In your main class which holds the tabs :

public class MainActivity extends TabGroupActivity {

}

and in your onItemClickListener you can start the activity like this :

startChildActivity("CollectionList", new Intent(this,CollectionMenu.class));

and when you are in CollectionMenu (which extend TabGroupActivity), you can start your child activities like the code below:

Intent previewMessage = new Intent(getParent(), DetailScreen.class);
TabGroupActivity parentActivity = (TabGroupActivity)getParent();
parentActivity.startChildActivity("DetailScreen", previewMessage);

This should work.If you have any problems just ask!