Android TabWidget detect click on current tab

Question

I am trying to find way to be able to fire an onclick event on a tab when this tab is the current tab.

I did try this way (among several other) with no success thou

Answer 1

After a lot of thinking about this, the solution ended up being easier than I thought. What I did was just create a new child class that extends TabHost and override the setCurrentTab method like so:

package com.mycompany.Views;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TabHost;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class ReclickableTabHost extends TabHost {

    public ReclickableTabHost(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public ReclickableTabHost(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public void setCurrentTab(int index) {
        if (index == getCurrentTab()) {
            // FIRE OFF NEW LISTENER
        } else {
            super.setCurrentTab(index);
        }
    }
}

To use your new class instead of the typical TabHost just edit your layout xml file with:

Hope this helps...