title: ANDROID: Customized tab design crashes app on startup
body: <p>I have bin trying to customize how my tabs look, and I don't get any errors. But when I try to run the app it crashes. This is what I got:</p>
  
  <pre><code>setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  tabHost = (TabHost) findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and:</p>
  
  <pre><code>private void setUpTabs() {
      // tabHost.setup();
      //
      // TabSpec spec1 = tabHost.newTabSpec("TAB 1");
      // spec1.setContent(R.id.tab_1);
      // spec1.setIndicator("", getResources().getDrawable(R.raw.home));
      //
      // TabSpec spec2 = tabHost.newTabSpec("TAB 2");
      // spec2.setContent(R.id.tab_2);
      // spec2.setIndicator("", getResources().getDrawable(R.raw.most));
      // TabSpec spec3 = tabHost.newTabSpec("TAB 3");
      // spec3.setContent(R.id.tab_3);
      // spec3.setIndicator("", getResources().getDrawable(R.raw.favorites));
      // TabSpec spec4 = tabHost.newTabSpec("TAB 4");
      // spec4.setContent(R.id.tab_4);
      // spec4.setIndicator("",
      // getResources().getDrawable(R.raw.search_icon));
      // tabHost.addTab(spec1);
      // tabHost.addTab(spec2);
      // tabHost.addTab(spec3);
      // tabHost.addTab(spec4);
      // tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(this);
  
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
      tabHost = (TabHost) findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);
      setupTab(new TextView(this), "Tab 1");
      setupTab(new TextView(this), "Tab 2");
      setupTab(new TextView(this), "Tab 3");
  }
  
  private void setupTab(final View view, final String tag) {
      View tabview = createTabView(tabHost.getContext(), tag);
      TabSpec setContent = tabHost.newTabSpec(tag).setIndicator(tabview).setContent(new TabContentFactory() {
                  public View createTabContent(String tag) {
                      return view;
                  }
              });
      tabHost.addTab(setContent);
  }
  
  private static View createTabView(final Context context, final String text) {
      View view = LayoutInflater.from(context)
              .inflate(R.xml.tabs_bg, null);
      TextView tv = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tabsText);
      tv.setText(text);
      return view;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The section commented out, is what I did before using the standard tab design.
  The .xml parts so far should have no problems, sins that it so far is based 100% on other stuff that I dug up in the net.</p>