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();

and

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Answer 1

I'm lately here. But somethings I just known that might help you a bit.

If you are using Java, there is nothing much to change. But for kotlin developers, here is some following snippet I think that can make you a basement to run on:

• Parent fragment:

inline fun  newInstance(text: String): T {
    return T::class.java.newInstance().apply {
        arguments = Bundle().also { it.putString("key_text_arg", text) }
    }
}

• Normal call

val f: SampleFragment = SampleFragment.newInstance("ABC")
// or val f = SampleFragment.newInstance("ABC")

• You can extend the parent init operation in child fragment class by:

fun newInstance(): ChildSampleFragment {
    val child = UserProfileFragment.newInstance("XYZ")
    // Do anything with the current initialized args bundle here
    // with child.arguments = ....
    return child
}

Happy coding.