Android ActionBar tabs set initially selected tab

Question

I have noticed that when using

actionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(x)

in the onCreate() method of my Activity, the tab item at position 0

Answer 1

you can use below statment in activtiy onStart method:

protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    actionBar.selectTab(mainTab);
}

which mainTab variable here is of type Tab. this way you need to define tabs as class-wide variables like this:

Tab mainTab, tab2,tab3;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    //add tabs to action bar
    ....
}