android Tab icons don't show up

Question

Right now I'm trying to get the Tab layout to work. I've done everything just like in Android TabView tutorial, app runs ok, but the problem is that I dont see any icons that I've defined them in ic_tab_artists.xml. There is text only.

I guess it has something to do with theme that is default one or style or whatever. I've tried to change it but it didn't help at all, still just a text.

I'm using Android SDK v4.03.

I'm sure there are enough Android gurus that will help, so thanks in advance.

This is my .xml defining using icons:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">


    <!-- When selected, use grey -->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_tab_artists_grey" 
      android:state_selected="true" /> 


    <!-- When not selected (default), use white-->  
<item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_tab_artists_white" />

</selector>

And my main HolePage Activity:

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public class HolePage extends TabActivity {


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

    //TABS      

    Resources res = getResources(); // Resource object to get Drawables
    TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();  // The activity TabHost
    TabHost.TabSpec spec;  // Reusable TabSpec for each tab
    Intent intent;  // Reusable Intent for each tab

    // Create an Intent to launch an Activity for the tab (to be reused)
    intent = new Intent().setClass(this, HolePageScores.class);

    // Initialize a TabSpec for each tab and add it to the TabHost
    spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("scores").setIndicator("Scores",
                      res.getDrawable(R.drawable.tab_scores_icons))
                  .setContent(intent);

    tabHost.addTab(spec);

    // Do the same for the other tabs - Info
    intent = new Intent().setClass(this, HolePageInfo.class);
    spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("info").setIndicator("Info",
                      res.getDrawable(R.drawable.tab_scores_icons))
                  .setContent(intent);
    tabHost.addTab(spec);

    // Do the same for the other tabs - Top
    intent = new Intent().setClass(this, HolePageTop.class);
    spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("top").setIndicator("Top",
                      res.getDrawable(R.drawable.tab_scores_icons))
                  .setContent(intent);
    tabHost.addTab(spec);

    // Do the same for the other tabs - Hole
    intent = new Intent().setClass(this, HolePageHole.class);
    spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("hole").setIndicator("Hole",
                      res.getDrawable(R.drawable.tab_scores_icons))
                  .setContent(intent);
    tabHost.addTab(spec);

    // Do the same for the other tabs - Par
    intent = new Intent().setClass(this, HolePagePar.class);
    spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("par").setIndicator("Par",
                      res.getDrawable(R.drawable.tab_scores_icons))
                  .setContent(intent);
    tabHost.addTab(spec);

    //Set default tab2
    tabHost.setCurrentTab(1);

}

}

can you post your code? you can set your icons by code only.. have you done that? — Hiral Vadodaria, Feb 10 '12 at 09:59
Sure, if you mean .xml that defines which icons to load and when> — Viktor Szekeress, Feb 10 '12 at 10:01
Well, my code is the same as this one (except files titles): http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html — Viktor Szekeress, Feb 10 '12 at 10:11
The same code worked for me.Please check do you miss anything there or not? try cleaning and bulding project. — Hiral Vadodaria, Feb 10 '12 at 10:13
Do you get class is deprecated information when you extend your main activity extends TabActivity? May this be a problem? Do you get exactly the same tab style as in that tutorial? — Viktor Szekeress, Feb 10 '12 at 10:19
This is how it looks on me: http://postimage.org/image/ceyrnvukz/ — Viktor Szekeress, Feb 10 '12 at 10:47
It is deprecated in 15 level but still it must not be creating problem,it works though.I didn't try in 15 level,i used in api level 7. — Hiral Vadodaria, Feb 10 '12 at 10:58
I did the same thing and it worked.sorry,i am not able to figure out what problem may be. tab_scores_icons is your selector xml file,right? — Hiral Vadodaria, Feb 10 '12 at 11:02
yes, tab_scores_icons is my selector. I will try another API. Thanks anyway for effort. — Viktor Szekeress, Feb 10 '12 at 11:05

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 20 '12 at 22:09

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without knowing much in depth about themes, i have discovered that specifying the theme @android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar in the application manifest solves the issue and the icons show up in the tabs.

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" 
    >
    <!-- MANIFEST -->
</application>

Hope, that helps!

answered May 20 '12 at 22:09

Janos

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Thank you! Also helped me. The strangest thing was - the app worked fine on android 2.3. – user929298 Feb 03 '13 at 15:32

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