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Why ActionBar Tabs show as Spinner on Tablet devices?

I have made an app using TABS as navigation. On any devices like cell phones everything looks great but on tablet devices instead of tabs I see spinner ... why? I have tested that issue on AVD but everything seems to be ok. Any idea what to do?

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  • I have made an app using TABS as navigation.

    From your question title, I am assuming that by "TABS" you mean action bar tabs. Action bar tabs were deprecated in Android 5.0, and they always had issues.

    On any devices like cell phones everything looks great but on tablet devices instead of tabs I see spinner ... why?

    Because that's what Google wants, based on their response to the issue I filed over three years ago regarding this behavior.

    Any idea what to do?

    Stop using action bar tabs. Use ViewPager and a tabbed indicator (e.g., PagerSlidingTabStrip), or use FragmentTabHost, or use TabHost with views for tabs.