Basic communication between two fragments

Question

I have one activity - MainActivity. Within this activity I have two fragments, both of which I created declaratively within the xml.

I am trying to pas

Answer 1

Consider my 2 fragments A and B, and Suppose I need to pass data from B to A.

Then create an interface in B, and pass the data to the Main Activity. There create another interface and pass data to fragment A.

Sharing a small example:

Fragment A looks like

public class FragmentA extends Fragment implements InterfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity {
public InterfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity interfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity;
String data;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);
}

@Override
public void updateData(String data) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    this.data = data;
    //data is updated here which is from fragment B
}

@Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onAttach(activity);
    try {
        interfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity = (InterfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity) activity;
    } catch (ClassCastException e) {
        throw new ClassCastException(activity.toString()
                + " must implement TextClicked");
    }

}

}

FragmentB looks like

class FragmentB extends Fragment {
public InterfaceDataCommunicator interfaceDataCommunicator;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // call this inorder to send Data to interface
    interfaceDataCommunicator.updateData("data");
}

public interface InterfaceDataCommunicator {
    public void updateData(String data);
}

@Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onAttach(activity);
    try {
        interfaceDataCommunicator = (InterfaceDataCommunicator) activity;
    } catch (ClassCastException e) {
        throw new ClassCastException(activity.toString()
                + " must implement TextClicked");
    }

}

}

Main Activity is

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements InterfaceDataCommunicator {
public InterfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity interfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public void updateData(String data) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    interfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity.updateData(data);

}

public interface InterfaceDataCommunicatorFromActivity {
    public void updateData(String data);
}

}

Answer 2

Learn " setTargetFragment() "

Where " startActivityForResult() " establishes a relationship between 2 activities, " setTargetFragment() " defines the caller/called relationship between 2 fragments.

Answer 3

I recently created a library that uses annotations to generate those type casting boilerplate code for you. https://github.com/zeroarst/callbackfragment

Here is an example. Click a TextView on DialogFragment triggers a callback to MainActivity in onTextClicked then grab the MyFagment instance to interact with.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements MyFragment.FragmentCallback, MyDialogFragment.DialogListener {

private static final String MY_FRAGM = "MY_FRAGMENT";
private static final String MY_DIALOG_FRAGM = "MY_DIALOG_FRAGMENT";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
        .add(R.id.lo_fragm_container, MyFragmentCallbackable.create(), MY_FRAGM)
        .commit();

    findViewById(R.id.bt).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            MyDialogFragmentCallbackable.create().show(getSupportFragmentManager(), MY_DIALOG_FRAGM);
        }
    });
}

Toast mToast;

@Override
public void onClickButton(MyFragment fragment) {
    if (mToast != null)
        mToast.cancel();
    mToast = Toast.makeText(this, "Callback from " + fragment.getTag() + " to " + this.getClass().getSimpleName(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
    mToast.show();
}

@Override
public void onTextClicked(MyDialogFragment fragment) {
    MyFragment myFragm = (MyFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(MY_FRAGM);
    if (myFragm != null) {
        myFragm.updateText("Callback from " + fragment.getTag() + " to " + myFragm.getTag());
    }
}

}

Answer 4

Update

Ignore this answer. Not that it doesn't work. But there are better methods available. Moreover, Android emphatically discourage direct communication between fragments. See official doc. Thanks user @Wahib Ul Haq for the tip.

Original Answer

Well, you can create a private variable and setter in Fragment B, and set the value from Fragment A itself,

FragmentB.java

private String inputString;
....
....

public void setInputString(String string){
   inputString = string;
}

FragmentA.java

//go to fragment B

FragmentB frag  = new FragmentB();
frag.setInputString(YOUR_STRING);
//create your fragment transaction object, set animation etc
fragTrans.replace(ITS_ARGUMENTS)

Or you can use Activity as you suggested in question..