“Deprecated” in Android means “we think there is a better solution that you should investigate”. Rarely does “deprecated” mean “it is unusable”. TabHost
, AFAIK, works fine on Android 4.0.
That being said, I would recommend considering switching to tabs in the action bar, using ActionBarSherlock to give you backwards compatibility to Android 2.1.
UPDATE
Besides, TabHost
is not deprecated. TabActivity
is deprecated. You can still use TabHost
, with views for your tabs. Or, use:
ViewPager
with a tabbed indicator, likePagerTabStrip
FragmentTabHost
, for aTabHost
that uses fragments for tabs
The action bar also has tab support, but that was deprecated starting with the “L” Developer Preview.