title: What are the official Android recommendations for tabs?
body: <p>I have to say I'm pretty lost when it comes to designing tabbed layouts on Android right now.  The platform developers seem to be evolving the design faster than I can figure out their intentions.  </p>
  
  <p>From what I can gather from the combination of the recently deprecated <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/TabActivity.html" rel="nofollow"><code>TabActivity</code></a> and the new <a href="http://developer.android.com/design/index.html" rel="nofollow">design guide</a>, I think they intend for tabs to be exclusively with the Action Bar, either inside the main action bar or stacked on a secondary action bar.  </p>
  
  <p>Though the <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html" rel="nofollow">developer's guide suggests</a> using the Action Bar for "global navigation".  Does this mean that it's recommended to create your own tabs outside the Action Bar if your tabs only apply to a particular application context?</p>