I searched a lot but could not find specific solution for my problem. I am posting a screen shot where you can see a tab widget. Also there is an exclamation mark there don't know why! You can see on the right bottom corner there is Background set to drawable. I have put the same named drawable into x,m,l,s, dpi folders. Also you can see in the Screen shot that there is API 8 used. Now the problem that I am facing is I can see the background set for 4.0 but not for 2.2! I have used setBackgroundResource also in class file, I tried to set alpha 0 for this tabwidget also. But don't know why its not taking my image as its Bg for API 8!! Thanks all would appreciate any relevant help.