Fragments

10) Scrollable tabs

Creating a scroll tab: 1) Create the fragment classes and layouts 2) Create a view pager - a view pager is layout manager where each child is a separate page.…

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9) Dialog Fragment

A Dialog box is like a prompt for user decisions/information for an app to continue a task (e.g. deleting a record in a database) A Dialog Box is composed of…

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8) ListFragment

In this example the fragment xml file is hard coded into the activity_main.xml file. We could however use the fragment manager and add() method in the java code to give…

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4) Getting fragments to talk to each other

Example below is from Vivz slide nerd videos on youtube MainActivity.java FragmentA.java FragmentB.java activity_main.xml fragment_a.xml fragment_b.xml AndroidManifest.xml When orientation changes - how do we remember the state of Fragment A…

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3) Adding fragments using Java code

The Fragment Manager Every activity has its own Fragment Manager which is accessible through the method: getFragmentManager() The Fragment Manager maintains references to all the fragments within an activity. You…

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1) Fragment Life Cycle

To make a fragment we have to: 1) Extend the fragment class 2) Give the appearance in XML or Java 3) Override the onCreateView() method to link appearance 4) Use…

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