title: Creating Navigation Tabs in Android
body: <p>I'm new to Android (and Java to some extent). </p>
  
  <p>My question is how can I create a tabbed action bar for navigation in an Android Application?</p>
  
  <p>The possibilities and variances are mind boggling and i cant tell what is useful or not.</p>
  
  <p>On the Android developer site it says you can use navigation tabs with fragments but all i want the navigation tabs to do is start activities so fragments seems overcomplicated and unnecessary.</p>
  
  <p>All I want is a nice tabbed navigation bar with three options. I also have one option in the action bar for a quick action. Some sites are suggesting action bar sherlock but this is throwing up errors that i cant seem to fix.</p>
  
  <p>Surely i dont have to download a whole separate library just to make a tabbed action bar that starts activities when each is touched. </p>
  
  <p>(sorry im really new to this and Android is totally impenetrable at the moment) </p>