Updated example to demonstrate custom styling of tabs.

actionbarexample/AndroidManifest.xml

@@ -3,18 +3,22 @@
       package="com.markupartist.android.actionbar.example"
       android:versionCode="1"
       android:versionName="1.0">
-    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
+    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon"
+                 android:label="@string/app_name"
+                 android:theme="@style/Theme.ActionBar"
+                 >
         <activity android:name=".HomeActivity"
                   android:label="@string/app_name"
-                  android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">
+                  >
             <intent-filter>
                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
             </intent-filter>
         </activity>
         <activity android:name=".OtherActivity"
                   android:label="@string/app_name"
-                  android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">
+                  android:theme="@style/OtherTheme"
+                  >
         </activity>
     </application>
     <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="10"/>

actionbarexample/res/drawable/tab_custom_indicator.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<!--
+  Copyright 2011 Google Inc.
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+  -->
+<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
+    <!-- selected tabs -->
+    <item android:drawable="@drawable/tab_custom_selected_pressed"
+        android:state_selected="true"
+        android:state_pressed="true" />
+    <item android:drawable="@drawable/tab_custom_selected_focused"
+        android:state_selected="true"
+        android:state_pressed="false"
+        android:state_focused="true" />
+    <item android:drawable="@drawable/tab_custom_selected"
+        android:state_selected="true"
+        android:state_focused="false"
+        android:state_pressed="false" />
+
+    <!-- unselected tabs -->
+    <item android:drawable="@drawable/tab_custom_unselected_pressed"
+        android:state_selected="false"
+        android:state_pressed="true" />
+    <item android:drawable="@drawable/tab_custom_unselected_focused"
+        android:state_selected="false"
+        android:state_pressed="false"
+        android:state_focused="true" />
+    <item android:drawable="@drawable/tab_custom_unselected"
+        android:state_selected="false"
+        android:state_focused="false"
+        android:state_pressed="false" />
+</selector>

actionbarexample/res/values/styles.xml

@@ -22,4 +22,29 @@
     <style name="ActionBarProgressBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Small.Inverse">
     </style>
      -->
+
+    <!-- Demonstrates how we can style the action bar differently for another
+         activity. Drawables for the tabs used in this examples has been stolen
+         from the iosched app <http://code.google.com/p/iosched>. -->
+    <style name="OtherTheme" parent="@style/Theme.ActionBar.Light">
+        <item name="actionBarTabBarStyle">@style/FancyTabBar</item>
+        <item name="actionBarTabViewStyle">@style/FancyTabView</item>
+        <item name="actionBarTabTextStyle">@style/FancyTabText</item>
+    </style>
+
+    <style name="FancyTabBar" parent="ActionBar_TabBar">
+        <item name="android:background">@drawable/tab_custom_off_background</item>
+        <item name="android:paddingTop">5dip</item>
+        <item name="android:layout_height">38dp</item>
+    </style>
+    <style name="FancyTabView" parent="ActionBar_TabView">
+        <item name="android:background">@drawable/tab_custom_indicator</item>
+        <item name="android:layout_height">38dp</item>
+        <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">2dip</item>
+        <item name="android:layout_marginRight">2dip</item>
+    </style>
+    <style name="FancyTabText" parent="ActionBar_TabText">
+        <item name="android:textColor">?android:attr/textColorPrimary</item>
+        <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item>
+    </style>
 </resources>

actionbarexample/src/com/markupartist/android/actionbar/example/OtherActivity.java

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
         actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
         actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText("Tab 1").setTabListener(this));
         actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText("Tab 2").setTabListener(this));
+        actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText("Tab 3").setTabListener(this));
 
         actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
         actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);