Changing color of TabHost/TabWidget

Question

I'm having a really hard time changing the color of my TabWidget. I've looked at several posts and tried them out, but none of them worked for me. I'm trying to change the default (blue) color scene to green.

Image of my app

My xml code:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity"
android:id="@+id/relativeLayout">

<TabHost
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:id="@+id/tabHost"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"

    android:layout_alignParentStart="true">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        >

        <TabWidget
            android:id="@android:id/tabs"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:clickable="true"
            android:tabStripEnabled="false">

        </TabWidget>

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent">

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/tab1"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical">

            </LinearLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/tab2"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:orientation="vertical">
                <FrameLayout
                    android:id="@+id/listFragment"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
            </LinearLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/tab3"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical">
            </LinearLayout>

        </FrameLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
</TabHost>

Answer 1

The way to change the color of the tabs programmatically is by using

for(int i=0;i<mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildCount();i++)
{
    mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i)
                           .setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#00304E"));
}

To change the color of the currently selected tab,

mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(mTabHost.getCurrentTab())
                       .setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#008EE8"));