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

Percy Vega's reply seems to be the best working solution.

    for (int i = 0; i < mSectionsPagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {

        boolean preselected = (i == ErrorDetails.tab_id);
        actionBar.addTab(
                actionBar.newTab()
                        .setText(mSectionsPagerAdapter.getPageTitle(i))
                        .setTabListener(this),preselected);
    }