I created tabs with snippets using TabWidget with a custom layout for each tab. Everything seems to work and looks great, except for one. In ICS and above, it looks like this:
But on Gingerbread, it looks like this:
As you can clearly see, the separators disappear in the gingerbread.
So, I have two questions. First of all, is there a way to make dividers on Gingerbread? I tried various stackoverflow suggestions, but they just don't want to appear.
Secondly, is there a way to customize the appearance of the delimiters? I tried using:
setDividerDrawable()
with images that work on ICS, but I get a null pointer exception in Gingerbread.
(UPDATE: in connection with a bold question, I just discovered something really annoying. It seems that Gingerbread and ICS + deal with delimiters differently. I got a Null pointer exception when calling TabWidget.getChildAt (). When the divisor is set , in Rectangle, the divider is considered to be a child of the Tabwidget in which it is contained, but it is NOT (or ignored) in ICS +. Therefore, the index I use for getChildAt is completely incorrect in Gingerbread, because tabwidget sees 5 children (3 tabs and 2 separators), but in ICS he sees only 3 (only 3 tabs))
I also tried setting the color of the separators, but they don't seem to work at all.
Here's how the tabs are configured:
private void initialiseTabHost(Bundle args) { this.tabHost = (TabHost) findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost); this.tabHost.setup(); TabInfo tabInfo = null; addTab( this, this.tabHost, this.tabHost.newTabSpec(TAB_DASHBOARD).setIndicator(LayoutInflater.from(getApplicationContext()) .inflate(R.layout.tabview_dashboard, null)), (tabInfo = new TabInfo(TAB_DASHBOARD, MonitoringTab.class.getName(), args))); this.mapTabInfo.put(tabInfo.tag, tabInfo);