Programmatically switch tabs in Android using ActionBarSherlock

Question

I couldn\'t find any info about this but, how can i programmatically switch tabs in ActionBarSherlock?

Normally when i want to switch views i\'d use something like:<

Answer 1

In my app I have one tab fragment that has an album of pictures. When the user clicks on one of the pictures it causes that picture to be displayed in a ViewPager on the other tab fragment and automatically switches to that tab with setCurrentTabByTag().

public class EditAlbumTabs extends SherlockFragmentActivity {
   TabHost mTabHost;
   TabsAdapter mTabsAdapter;

   public void onPagerPositionSet(int pagerPosition, String[] imageUrls) {
        FragmentFlash fragmentFlash = (FragmentFlash)mTabsAdapter.getFragment("flash");
        if (fragmentFlash != null) {
           fragmentFlash.pagerPositionSet(pagerPosition, imageUrls);
           **mTabHost.setCurrentTabByTag("flash");**
        }
   }

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.fragment_tabs_pager);
    mTabHost = (TabHost)findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);
    mTabHost.setup();

    mViewPager = (ViewPager)findViewById(R.id.pager);
    mTabsAdapter = new TabsAdapter(this, mTabHost, mViewPager);
    mTabsAdapter.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec("album").setIndicator("Album"),
            FragmentAlbumFlashum.class, null);
    mTabsAdapter.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec("flash").setIndicator("Flash"),
            FragmentFlash.class, null);
}

Answer 2

Try calling actionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(x):

int position = 1;
getSupportActionBar().setSelectedNavigationItem(position);