Too much stuff in the action bar about atarashii HOT 7 CLOSED

Wow, that does indeed look cluttered.

Unfortunately, this is standard android behavior. Android only puts the tabs on a new row on small-width devices (I.e. phones).

So, making this better involves one of two things: Custom implementation of the action bar, or tablet layout that doesn't use action bar tabs.

I'm thinking the latter.

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I don't know if this is standard Android, but you could also a spinners (instead of the name of the app) and chance the 'Switch List' to icon only. That way you win a lot of space.

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Actually, that was the original implementation way way back before 1.0. Unfortunately, as far as I know, Action bar tabs and spinners aren't compatible, they're separate Navigation Modes. :/

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And if you moved the search and refresh button to the menu and changed the 'Switch Lists' to a icon only? Is this something you can do or is it also something Android does on its own?

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Should be possible. The items in the action bar (search, refresh) are set to ifRoom and withText. Android is simply expanding them to fill as much space.

But then again, we've set the values as they are to be optimized for phones. A better tablet layout would also include making the action bar cleaner for tablets.

Basically: app is optimized for phones; tablet layout coming, possibly in 1.4 (which should really be just the new layouts, so hopefully it won't take forever)

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One possibility would be to re-think the flow of the application, possibly moving to use a ViewPager and use the list switcher as the main navigation element. That might be messy, but I haven't investigated.

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This is fixed now on my Nexus 7.

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