Getting EditText Value from a Fragment in main Activity

Question

I have placed three edit text in a fragment and want to get the values of the edit text in the fragment from the main activity. I tried the following code but its throwing

Answer 1

f1 = new Fragment()

This is not how you add fragments. You are just creating a new fragment instance here. The fragment's onCreateView never gets called because the fragment has not been added. Due to this, the editText variable is null and you get the exception. Please study fragments a little bit.

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidFragments/article.html

This is how you add a fragment :

getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(R.id.frag_layout_id, f1, "fragment_identifier").commit();

EDIT

Since the question has been edited with the xml, although you have declared the fragment in XML, the f1 instance in your java does not refer to that. To get a handle for the instance added through xml, use this

Fragment_Example f1 = (Fragment_Example)getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment);