Android FragmentTabHost - Not fully baked yet?

Question

I wanted to see if anyone has had success with customization of tabs using FragmentTabHost that comes with the new Android API level 17.

I was excited to be able to

Answer 1

I think, it was a mistake to set method initFragmentTabHost() to constructor. At that time TabHost don't his children - it happens after. LinearLayout, for example, work with his children in onMeasure() method (grepcode). ViewGroup in constructor just init variables, and set mChildrenCount = 0 (grepcode).

All what I can did, it's only costumize FragmentTabHost:

And costumize Tabs (have problems with tab heights, I solve them in code):

In code:

    tabSpec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(tag).setIndicator(createTab(caption));

...

    private View createTab(CharSequence title) {
        final View v = View.inflate(getActivity(), LAYOUT_TAB, null);
        ((TextView) v.findViewById(android.R.id.title)).setText(title);
        return v;
    }

I think other customization with TabWidget we can do only with programmatically manipulating, like this:

    final View tabs = (TabWidget) mTabHost.findViewById(android.R.id.tabs);
    final ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup) mTabHost.getChildAt(0); 
    parent.removeView(tabs);
    parent.addView(tabs);

IMHO, this is not good.