Android Closing tab in tabHost

Question

I am developing chat application using android. Programmatically now I am able to add no of tab as per necessary. But problem is that I am unable to close a single tab. tabhost.clearAllTabs closes all tabs. I want to close particular tab when another user left chat window. Is it possible using tabhost? though there is no direct way to close tab is there any indirect way to close tab?

Thank you.

Update:

TabHost tabHost;
public class TActivity extends TabActivity {

    tabHost = getTabHost();                 
}

public void addTAb(){

        TabSpec tabSpec = tabHost.newTabSpec("counter:"+counter);    

        View tab = LayoutInflater.from(getTabHost().getContext()).inflate(R.layout.tab, null);              
        tabSpec.setIndicator(tab);          
        Intent tabIntent = new Intent(this, Foo.class);
        tabSpec.setContent(tabIntent);  

        tabHost.addTab(tabSpec);        

        tabHost.setCurrentTabByTag(--);
        tabCounter = tabCounter +1;
}

Answer 1

Did you try something like this code:

myTabhost.getTabWidget()
    .removeView(myTabhost.getTabWidget()
    .getChildTabViewAt(myTab)); // myTab is the one you want to close  

I saw this on this question: Close tab programmatically TabHost

Hope you'll have the expected result.

Answer 2

To close tab, I did following trick & finally it works.

1st I have set one default tab & locally maintaining list of all new tabs.

//local list
private LinkedList<String> tabList = new LinkedList<String>();  
//adding tab
TabSpec tabSpec = tabHost.newTabSpec(tab_id);   
tabHost.addTab(tabSpec);
//making local entry
tabsList.add(tab_id);   

Then using following code I removes particular tab,

tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildTabViewAt(tabHost.getCurrentTab()).setVisibility(View.GONE);

then picks last tab from local list & switch to that tab using following code,

String tabid = tabList.getLast();     
tabHost.setCurrentTabByTag(tabid);

Last step is not mandatory, but sometimes I didn't get tabHost view properly, if don't switch to another tab. If all tabs are closed, then switch to default tab.

I hope it might useful to you guys also.

If somebody has find better way, please let us know.

Thank you.