Android Studio: Setting up tabs in a TabHost Container

A short tutorial of how to add an popularize a tabhost container in Android Studio.

1. In the design view add a tabhost container.
2. Add/remove the tabs as you need and rename the tabs to something meaningful, prefixing the id’s with “tab” might be a good idea, so they can be easily accessed via auto completion.
3. In the onCreate function of your activity set up the tabhost

   TabHost th = (TabHost) findViewById(R.id.tabHostId);
   th.setup();
   

4. After the TabHost is setup, add specs for each tab

   TabHost.TabSpec ts = th.newTabSpec("tab_name");
   ts.setContent(R.id.tabId);
   ts.setIndicator("Tab Label");
   th.addTab(ts);
   

Repeat Step 4 for each tab you want to add.