How to use SherlockFragmentActivity with SlidingMenu?

Question 1

EDIT:

I wanted to take this design as a challenge and see what is the result:

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As I suggested in the comments, I used PagerSlidingTabStrip andViewPager.

I did not include the ActionBarSherlock, but if needed that will be easy to modify: the MainActivity will be required to extend from SherlockFragmentActivity, and the theme @style/Theme.Sherlock.Light added to manifest file, and that is all.

(Just to be sure you got the idea, PagerSlidingTabStrip is the one who creates the tabs at the bottom)

Here are the steps I took to integrate PagerSlidingTabStrip and ViewPager with SlidingMenu:

1 - Import SlidingMenu library into Eclipse workspace
2 - Import PagerSlidingTabStrip library into Eclipse workspace
3 - Add Android Support Library to your project (and copy the same .jar into SlidingMenu and PagerSlidingTabString libraries, otherwise eclipse might complain)
4 - A minimal example of MainActivity:

public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity  {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        SlidingMenu menu = new SlidingMenu(this);
        menu.setTouchModeAbove(SlidingMenu.TOUCHMODE_FULLSCREEN);
        menu.setBehindOffset(50);
        menu.setFadeDegree(0.35f);
        menu.attachToActivity(this, SlidingMenu.SLIDING_CONTENT);
        menu.setMenu(R.layout.left_menu);

        ViewPager pager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
        pager.setAdapter(new ViewPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager()));

        PagerSlidingTabStrip tabs = (PagerSlidingTabStrip) findViewById(R.id.tabs);
        tabs.setViewPager(pager);
    }
}

5 - The layout of sliding menu, R.layout.left_menu:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/left_menu"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#CCC"
    android:orientation="vertical" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/org.grec">

    <com.astuetz.viewpager.extensions.PagerSlidingTabStrip
        android:id="@+id/tabs"
        app:shouldExpand="true"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_height="48dip" />

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/pager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_above="@id/tabs" />

</RelativeLayout>

6 - The ViewPagerAdapter:

public class ViewPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {

    private final int PAGES = 3;
    private String[] titles={"Tab 1", "Tab 2", "Tab 3"};

    public ViewPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        switch (position) {
            case 0:
                return new TabFragment1();
            case 1:
                return new TabFragment2();
            case 2:
                return new TabFragment3();
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("The item position should be less or equal to:" + PAGES);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
        return titles[position];
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return PAGES;
    }
}

7 - And an example of fragment, TabFragment1.java (the other 2 are similar):

public class TabFragment1 extends Fragment {
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_tab_1, container, false);
    }
}

8 - And the layout of the fragment R.layout.fragment_tab_1 which is pretty simple, it contains a single TextView, so I won't include it here.

I hope this example addresses your issue and will help you getting started on the right track.

Full source on github: https://github.com/vgrec/SlidingMenuWithViewpager

Question 2

1) Add SherlockActionBar library to SlidingMenu

2) Change SlidingFragmentActivity extends FragmentActivity to SlidingFragmentActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity

3) Then add SlidingMenu library to your project and your project should use MyProjectActivity extends SlidingFragmentActivity

You can use SherlockActionBar to create sliding menu with tabs inside Here sample code to create Tab with view pager For sliding, you can look at their documentation

public static class TabsAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter implements ActionBar.TabListener, ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener {
    private final Context mContext;
    private final ActionBar mActionBar;
    private final ViewPager mViewPager;
    private final ArrayList<TabInfo> mTabs = new ArrayList<TabInfo>();

    static final class TabInfo {
        private final Class<?> clss;
        private final Bundle args;

        TabInfo(Class<?> _class, Bundle _args) {
            clss = _class;
            args = _args;
        }
    }

    public TabsAdapter(SherlockFragmentActivity activity, ViewPager pager) {
        super(activity.getSupportFragmentManager());
        mContext = activity;
        mActionBar = activity.getSupportActionBar();
        mViewPager = pager;
        mViewPager.setAdapter(this);
        mViewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(this);
    }

    public void addTab(ActionBar.Tab tab, Class<?> clss, Bundle args) {
        TabInfo info = new TabInfo(clss, args);
        tab.setTag(info);
        tab.setTabListener(this);
        mTabs.add(info);
        mActionBar.addTab(tab);
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return mTabs.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        TabInfo info = mTabs.get(position);
        return Fragment.instantiate(mContext, info.clss.getName(), info.args);
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageSelected(int position) {
        mActionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(position);
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
    }

    public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        Object tag = tab.getTag();
        for (int i = 0; i < mTabs.size(); i++) {
            if (mTabs.get(i) == tag) {
                mViewPager.setCurrentItem(i);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
    }
}

    mViewPager = new ViewPager(this);
    mViewPager.setId(R.id.pager);

    setContentView(mViewPager);
    ab.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);

    mTabsAdapter = new TabsAdapter(this, mViewPager);

    mTabsAdapter.addTab(ab.newTab().setText("tab1"), FirstFragment.class, null);
    mTabsAdapter.addTab(ab.newTab().setText("tab2"), SecondFragment.class, null);
    mTabsAdapter.addTab(ab.newTab().setText("tab3"), ThirdFragment.class, null);

Question 3

As what you have said the SlidingMenu uses fragments and you want to to have Tabs inside a Menu. For me, using Tabs inside a Menu needs nested fragments which means that you can't use SherlockFragmentActivity since it is like the Main Activity. You can't contain an Activity inside a fragment.

I have not implemented this kind of approach but maybe you can try implementing TabListener inside a fragment.

I am using this code for my activity not the fragment,

class MainActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity implements ActionBar.TabListener
{
}

maybe you can have,

 class FragmentA extends SherlockFragment implements TabListener{
    @Override
    public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

}

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