setCurrentTab of a tabHost

Question

I\'m asking if we can call a setCurrentTab on a tabhost from another class than the class that contains the tabhost and tabspecs?

Can we put

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Answer 1

But if you are in another activity, you won't see the tabs anyway will you?

I had a similar problem with a ListView which started the tabHost activity onItemClick to get that working, i passed the tabNumber i wanted to display, through the intent, then used setCurrentTab to set the current tab to the passed tab number. Not sure if this would work for you though.

EDIT: Here is how i did it:

Intent i = new Intent(this, TabHostActivity.class);
i.putExtra("TabNumber", tabNumberToBeSelected); //tabNumberToBeSelected is an int
startActivity(i);

and then in the tabHost activity:

int tabNumber = getIntent().getIntExtra("TabNumber", 0);

//tabHost code goes here

tabHost.setCurrentTab(tabNumber);