I\'m looking how to get a similar bar at the bottom of my application like MyTubo (or GroupMe) for Android. Something like this:
Also for me a good way to obtain something similar to iPhone's UITabBarController in Android consists in using RadioGroup plus RadioButtons. The good of this approach is that you can also use Fragment or anything you like, instead of only Intent and Activity.
I wrote a blog post to achieve the same result of Pied Piper, but using RadioGroup and RadioButtons. It's in Italian but, fortunately, the code speaks internationally ;) Here the result:

For more elaborate navigation bar design (like the ones in the original question), I suppose it's only a matter of cool and smart drawable ;)