Flickr-like Android ActionBar

Question

I have been doing a small research on UI designs for Android for the last few weeks. My main concern right now is the action bar along with tabs. I believe the default android implementation takes to much room on the screen.

Recently I took a look at the Flickr app and I really like how they do this but I am not sure how to implement tabs this smoothly inside the action bar itself.

All help / ideas are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Screenshot of the action bar can be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/242865/Screenshot_2014-11-11-11-04-05.png

Answer 1

Check out this library on github. It's an Android Library to help you create actionbar tabs like Capitaine train app by Cyril Mottier.

Answer 2

You have to set a customview in your actionbar and use something like ViewPagerIndicator http://viewpagerindicator.com/ To setup a custom view in your actionbar just use setCustomView but remember to enable the display of custom view first. Take a look at this http://www.jfarrell.net/2013/10/customizing-action-bar-in-android.html