How to close one single tab in android tablayout without clearing all the tabs and adding again

There is a method to add a tab in TabHost as well as clear all tabs, but there are no APIs to remove one single tab.

F开发者_如何学Pythonollowing the logic in clearAllTabs tried to

tabwidget.removeViewAt(index);
tabHost.getTabContentView().removeViewAt(index)

After this the behaviour is strange. I assume that is because the mTabSpecs still contain the tabspec reference. mTabSpecs is a private variable in TabHost and there are not get methods to get a handle to this.

How to resolve the issue if one wants to close a single tab, and yes I have tried to clear all the tabs and add back all the tabspecs. It does not work for my usecase where some views contains some information regarding a session. If I recreate those tabspecs, I will go back to the starting point in those views.

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You can try to set Visibility of the Tab that you want to close to View.GONE.

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resolved with the View.GONE but with method which specifically checks for the visibility before counting the tabs. drawback is the index of the view cannot be changed.