due to item of which tab, contextual menu was instantiated?

Question

In my android application I have 3 tabs. Each of these 3 tabs have got listviews. Now I have registered these listviews for a contextual menu. How do i detect the tab (id or its name) from which the Contextual menu was instantiated? because all the three listviews from the tabs are registered for same contextual menu.

Answer 1

When a tab get selected you can save the current Tab into a variable, then when an item get selected you can use this value.

    private String mCurrentTab;

    public MyTabActivity(){

        this.getTabHost().setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener(){
            @Override
            public void onTabChanged(String tabId){
                mCurrentTab = tabId;
            }
        });

        .
        .
        .
    }

    public getCurrentTab(){
        return mCurrentTab;
    }

Note, that the TabActivity has been deprecated since ICS (4.0) so you may consider, use Fragments instead,