Issue with displaying TabHost Layout in new Intent

Question

I am having an issue with using TabHost in a new Intent of type TabActivity which I hope you can point me in the right direction. Funnily it works fine when I try to view it

Answer 1

I have previously constructed tabhosts with an id of android:id="@+id/tabhost". Does this work for you?

You could also consider constructing your tab view programmatically:

    TabHost t = getTabHost();
    TabSpec tab = t.newTabSpec(label)
                   .setIndicator(label, icon)
                   .setContent(intent);
    t.addTab(tab);

Answer 2

even though i had changed my main.xml to use android:id="@android:id/tabhost" like the error stated, it kept trying to use the old name. finally i found the file res/layout-port/main.xml that was identical to main.xml except used the wrong android:id. i must have added a portrait view accidentally and it was holding on to the old value. either fixing the portrait file or removing it fixes my problem.

Answer 3

I had this issue along with 'ERROR: Unknown option '--no-crunch''. If you updated ADT plug-in in Eclipse but have not updated the SDK at the same time. Updating the SDK Manager in Eclipse, fixed the issue for me.

Answer 4

"public class NextActivity extends TabActivity" --change TabActivity to ActivityGroup.

when problem happen when you want wo run tabhost in tabhost.it is ok.

Answer 5

I had copied and pasted code and noticed that in the id attribute I had:

android:id="@+id/tabs" 

when what I really wanted was:

android:id="@android:id/tabs"

Answer 6

I had the same problem. Luckily there was a quick fix:

1. Delete the R file.
2. Wait for your IDE to generate the file.
3. Profit!