如何在Android中为TabView设置颜色？

Question

I want to change the colour of a tabview from the default grey (and black when not selected) to red and green when not selected.

In the tab Widget class I'm trying to set the colour using these functions

tabHost.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);
tabHost.getTabWidget().setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);

But they don't work, its still the default colour. How do I manually set the background and tab colours of a tab widget in android? Also, is it possible to do it in xml?

Answer 1

See Step 4. at this blog, it's how I have done it, very simple, easy to change and tweak if you need to and it's all in XML.

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