Branching Other Activities off TabActivity Activity

Question

So I have a TabActivity that branches into three sub-activities (tabs). One of these activities is a ListView, which I want to branch into further ListView activities. However, I want each of these branched ListViews to also have the same tabs at the top. To do this, do I need to create a separate TabActivity and a separate Activity for each of these branched ListViews? Or is there an easier way?

Answer 1

Switch from the old deprecated APIs using like TabActivity or ActivityGroup into Fragments.

This class was deprecated in API level 13.

New applications should use Fragments instead of this class; to continue to run on older devices, you can use the v4 support library which provides a version of the Fragment API that is compatible down to DONUT.

From TabActivity documentation.

Answer 2

Cannot you trick a user into having TabActivities, but instead simply have one ListView instance with 3 buttons on the top of an activity (Tabs) and every time user clicks one of the "fake" tabs, just refresh the existing ListView with views that are appropriate for one of those "fake" tabs. In my opinion this solution would be more efficient resource-wise and render time -wise (which anyway are dual concepts)

This is what I have in mind

You may use Fragments as proposed by MaciejGórski for TabActivityOne, TabActivityTwo and TabActivityThree, while the ListView inflation technique could still be used