Anyone Know What This Error Mean For Android Tabs?

I am trying to try out the tutorial online and wanted to put the tab to the layout xml. I have change the extends from Activity to TabActivity. In the design view of the layout xml

Solution 1:

Known bug http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13092

A user suggested to switch build target to 1.6 and the issue goes away. Obviously a temporary fix.

Solution 2:

You need a layout like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><TabHostxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:id="@android:id/tabhost"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="fill_parent"><LinearLayoutandroid:orientation="vertical"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="fill_parent"android:padding="5dp"><TabWidgetandroid:id="@android:id/tabs"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content" /><FrameLayoutandroid:id="@android:id/tabcontent"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="fill_parent"android:padding="5dp" /></LinearLayout></TabHost>

See the Tab Layout tutorial for more info.

Solution 3:

Do you have a TabWidget with id android:id/tabs as the error message tells you you need?

Solution 4:

Switch to android Target 3.0 or 3.1. You can find that drop down list on the top right side

Solution 5:

I had the same issue. The workaround is detailed in this link:

Comment 63 by blundell...@gmail.com, May 5, 2011

As stated above Quick Fix: Just change the API Target (top left of XML graphical view) to 3.0 and you can see it