Android Developers Backstage Episode 1 KitKat

Get an overview of the new features in Android 4.4 KitKat presented by members of the Android team. Chet Haase and Tor Norbye cover many of the new features including Transitions, Storage Access Framework, Immersive Mode, Printing API, and Closed Captioning.

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iPhone Like Tab bar in Android

In a previous post we saw how to use the TabHost to create tabs in Android applications. Also we noticed that the Tabs in Android appear at the top of the activity.
but what if we want to give the tabs the look of the iPhone Tab Bar ?

this is possible by wrapping the TabWidget and the FrameLayout in a RelativeLayout container and adding android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" attribute to the TabWidget just like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


 <TabHost android_layout_width="fill_parent"
 android_layout_height="fill_parent"
 android_id="@android:id/tabhost"
 
 >
 <RelativeLayout
 android_layout_width="fill_parent"
 android_layout_height="fill_parent"
 >
 <TabWidget
 android_layout_width="fill_parent"
 android_layout_height="wrap_content"
 android_id="@android:id/tabs"
 android_layout_alignParentBottom="true"
 />
 <FrameLayout
 android_layout_width="fill_parent"
 android_layout_height="fill_parent"
 android_id="@android:id/tabcontent"
 >
 
 </FrameLayout>
 </RelativeLayout>
 </TabHost>

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