Best practice for instantiating a new Android Fragment

Question

I have seen two general practices to instantiate a new Fragment in an application:

Fragment newFragment = new MyFragment();

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Answer 1

Best practice to instance fragments with arguments in android is to have static factory method in your fragment.

public static MyFragment newInstance(String name, int age) {
    Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
    bundle.putString("name", name);
    bundle.putInt("age", age);

    MyFragment fragment = new MyFragment();
    fragment.setArguments(bundle);

    return fragment;
}

You should avoid setting your fields with the instance of a fragment. Because whenever android system recreate your fragment, if it feels that the system needs more memory, than it will recreate your fragment by using constructor with no arguments.

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