Android ActionBar: show/hide tabs dynamically?

Question

Is it possible to remove/restore the tab bar from the action bar dynamically? Up to now I did this by changing the navigation mode of the action bar. I used following code to remove and restore the tab bar: ``` @Override public void restoreTabs() { getSupportActionBar() .setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); this.supportInvalidateOptionsMenu(); } @Override public void removeTabs() { getSupportActionBar() .setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD); this.supportInvalidateOptionsMenu(); } ``` That works, but there is a big problem: Everytime I call `setNavigationMode`, `onTabSelected` is called in the `TabListener` and the currently opend tab gets recreated.

Accepted Answer

To remove the actionbar tabs dynamically, you simply need:

```
getActionBar().setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD);
```

To add them on the fly, simply do:

```
getActionBar().setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
```

For the second case, the assumption is that after setting the navigation mode, you will also add tabs, to the action bar, similar to this:

```
for (int resourceId : tabs) {
        actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText(resourceId)
                .setTabListener(this));
}
```

Android ActionBar: show/hide tabs dynamically?

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