How to stop ActionBar Tab navigation to display as a spinner when it gets too long?

Question

i have an action bar with a Tab navigation. While running on 3.1 everything was fine, but once i installed the app on a 4.1 device the tabs where forced to be displayed as a

Answer 1

Sorry, but you can't stop this. This is a feature, not a bug, according to Google. See: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24439