Passing an Object to Fragment or DialogFragment upon Instantiation

Question

I\'m trying to work out the correct way to pass in an Object to a Fragment or DialogFragment without breaking the \'empty constructor\' rule.

For example I have created

Answer 1

You can pass Object in the Bundle extras as Parcelable Objects (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Parcelable.html ) and pass them to Bundle in the onCreateView(Bundle savedInstanceState). You can although save them if the user flips the screen.

EDIT: this Parcelable tutorial was quite good!

Another way is getting the data object from your ParentActivity, but I'm not sure if this is a good way (but it works..)

@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
    mYourObject = ((MainActivity) getActivity()).getYourObject();
}

you have to create a Getter in your Activity for that

public YourObject getYourObject(){
   return mYourObecjt;
}

But I guess Parcelables are the better way, because you can reuse your Fragments without any dependencies...