Android User Interface - Are tabs at the bottom the best approach?

I am creating an app that provides users information about a building that the app is being designed for. For example it will tell the user the location of the building, hotels/restaurants/cafes nearby and some other useful information.

I will be creating seperate activities to carry this out, so an activity to tell user the location and maybe contain a map, an activity listing hotels and an activity listing nearby cafes etc.

My problem is that I am not sure how to design the interface for this. I was thinking of having开发者_开发问答 tabs at the botton of the screen where each tab opens the corresponding activity. Is this a good way to do it or is there a better way?

Thanks

This is really a UX (user experience) decision, not a coder decision. You are probably asking this question on a wrong site.

I recommend you look around how other apps have solved a similar problem, to get ideas what is possible. Then pick a solution that you like best.

You might want to ask that at UX
Personally I think Tabs are a quite intuitive way to let the user choose between dedicated views/activities - especially if they are labelled with distinct icons

Tabs is always a clean solution.

Maybe something like a dashboard would also be nice. (Pattern 3 in my link)

This link covers some things that may be useful in further development.

Android Dev UI Development

Right now i can think of some other solutions

• Use a gesture to swap to another activity
• Use a pair of arrow buttons at the bottom

But your solution seems nicer