title: How to Implement Android tab menu without deprecated tabhost
body: <p>My question sounds simple, but I can't seem to find a sufficient answer for this.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to design an app for tablets that has some information at the top quarter of the screen, and then a tabbed menu for information below the top quarter.</p>
  
  <p>Basically what I'm looking for is :</p>
  
  <pre><code>┌─────────────────────────────────────
  │
  │ Top of Page
  │
  ├───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬─────
  │ Tab 1 │ Tab 2 │ Tab 3 │ Tab 4 │
  │       └───────┴───────┴───────┴─────
  │
  │ Bottom of page
  │
  │
  │
  ⁞
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was originally going to use a tabhost with multiple tabs; but I realize that it's deprecated now, and so I'm looking for the most efficient, and up-to-date method for doing this for Android development. 
  The easiest thing already implemented would be the action-bar, but that's at the top of the app -- and that's not quite what I'm trying to go for either.</p>
  
  <p>I read on another thread that Fragments should be used instead; but considering the simplicity of tabhosts, I don't quite see how a fragment can replace this because, so far as I can tell, it doesn't have a built-in tab option; only lists. (Of course I may be wrong)</p>
  
  <p>The other options I have found were ActionbarSherlock, and just using buttons that change layouts.</p>
  
  <p>I guess overall what I'm asking is, what is the best, most up-to-date backwards-compatible way to reproduce the design I have up there?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  So far the only thing I have found from researching is still stating that I use fragments with the compatibility API, or simply using buttons and a FrameLayout.
  I'm really not interested in using the action-bar, as it does not go below the layout that is supposed to be on the top.</p>
  
  <p>Or would it really be so bad to just go ahead and use the TabHost anyway, even though it's deprecated? </p>