Tabs in the Android work with TabWidgets.
Contained in the tabwidget are relative layouts for each of your tabs which each contain an imageview and a textview.
Tab index will start from 0 and to access the Tab Contents use the following steps.
For Example. if you want to access title of tab
mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(0).findViewById(android.R.id.title);
the above statement will provide the view (TextView) at this position.
change the text of Tab
TextView v = ((TextView)mTabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(0).findViewById(android.R.id.title));
v.setText("My New Title");
Congratulations.
Your text of tab is changed.