The Tab Layout tutorial on the Android Developers site shows how to add tabs to a TabHost with a lot of repetitive procedural code.
Is there a declarative way to create tabbed layouts on Android? Something like the following?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp">
<TabWidget
android:id="@android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Tab android:text="Artists"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_tab_artists"
android:href="artists_frame"/>
<Tab android:text="Albums"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_tab_albums"
android:href="albums_frame"/>
<Tab android:text="Songs"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_tab_songs"
android:href="songs_frame"/>
</TabWidget>
<FrameLayout
android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp">
<TextView android:id="artists_frame"
android:text="This is the Artists tab."/>
<TextView android:id="albums_frame"
android:text="This is the Albums tab."/>
<TextView android:id="songs_frame"
android:text="This is the Songs tab."/>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
(If this existed, the FrameLayout would show only one child view at a time.)
