what is the current android equivalent of UITabBar

Question

There are many old questions here on the matter. And they all mention that the former mechanism is now deprecated. Is there a present means for created Tab based applications in android similar to how it's done in iOS, i.e. using UITabBar/UITabBarController?

Answer 1

If you are using Android studio, you can use it to generate up-to-date code samples for tabs.

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file > new > activity > Tabbed activity

Generates an activity with a tabbar at the top, and uses Fragments for the tabs.

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file > new > activity > Bottom Navigation Activity

Tabbar at the bottom. You will have to implement the tabbing yourself, I would recommend using Fragments here as well. You can generate fragments using file > new > Fragment, and learn how to swap them at runtime: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/fragments/fragment-ui.html#AddAtRuntime