Android 2.1 NullPointerException with TabWidgets

Question

I have an issue I have not been able to figure out and it is only happening on devices running <2.1. It works fine on android 2.2. I have ansynchronous task that displa

Answer 1

An easy solution is to set the tabWidget visibility to gone in your layout

Then once you have defined your tabs content, you can make it visible again:

// Add tab content (here a fragment class)
tabHost.addTab(
    tabHost.newTabSpec("tag1").setIndicator("Title"), 
    contentFragment.class, 
    null);

// Set tabWidget visible again
tabWidget.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);