Customizing ActionBar Tabs on Android 4

Question

I\'m trying to customize Tabs on my ActionBar. I just want to align tabs to phone screen and make it stretchable for various screens. But all I get is this:

Answer 1

I have found using style guides for the tabs to very inconsistent for honeycomb, It was much easier to just inflate a custom view that does want you want.

Fragment serivceFrag = new ServicesFragment();
Tab serviceTab = bar.newTab();
TextViewPlus serviceTabTextView =(TextViewPlus)getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.tab_item_layout, null);
serviceTabTextView.setText(servicesLabel);
serviceTab.setCustomView(serviceTabTextView);
serviceTab.setTabListener(new TabListenerFragment(serivceFrag,"Service",R.id.MainInfoPaneFragment));
bar.addTab(serviceTab);

This to me was much simpler,