How to change the background color of Tab widget in Android?

[deep007.mm]

Hi Everybody,

I am using TabWidget. It comes with the default grey background color. Is it possible to change this? If it is then please tell me how can I do this??

Thanks

Deepak

[mapeters]

The following shows how to change the color and the height of the standard Android tabs.

In TabActivity.onCreate():

final TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();

tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new TabHost.OnTabChangeListener()
@Override
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
setTabColors(tabHost);
}
});

...

// This tab activity is always launched via an intent which
// passes the tag of the tab to start on in a String extra
// with key "tab_name". Set the current tab before initializing
// the colors.
tabHost.setCurrentTabByTag(getIntent().getStringEx tra("tab_name"));
setTabColors(tabHost);

As a method in your TabActivity:

private void setTabColors(final TabHost tabHost) {
for (int i = 0; i < tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildCount(); i++) {
tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i).getLayoutPara ms().height = 40;
tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i).setBackground Color(Color.LTGRAY);
}

tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(tabHost.getCurre ntTab())
.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor(Color.RED));
}

Originally Posted by deep007.mm

Hi Everybody,

I am using TabWidget. It comes with the default grey background color. Is it possible to change this? If it is then please tell me how can I do this??

Thanks

Deepak

[deep007.mm]

Hi,
Thanks for the response.

You are telling method to change the tab on any events. But I want to change the background colors of Tab widget without on any events.

Thanks
Deepak