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

If you have 3 tabs (i.e. tab 0, tab 1, tab 2) and want tab 1 to be preselected. Do this:

for (int i = 0; i < mFragmentPagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
    boolean preselected = (i == 1);
    actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText(
        mFragmentPagerAdapter.getPageTitle(i)).setTabListener(this), preselected);
}

You will be using:

public abstract void addTab (ActionBar.Tab tab, boolean setSelected)

as per this API specification.