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Android Programming for Beginners
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Android Programming for Beginners

by John Horton, Paresh Mayani
December 2015
Beginner
698 pages
15h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Coding the fragment communications in MainActivity

We just need to implement the ActivityComs interface and add an instance of our DataManager class. Then, we'll handle the two methods of the interface, and we are good to go.

Implement the interface and add an instance of DataManager as shown highlighted in the next code:

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity implements ActivityComs{

    private ListView mNavDrawerList;
    private DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout;
    private ArrayAdapter<String> mAdapter;
    private ActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle;
    private String mActivityTitle;

    public DataManager dataManager;

Initialize the DataManager instance by adding the highlighted line of code in onCreate:

@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) ...
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