An Abstract Activity for Hosting a Fragment

In a moment, you will create the CrimeListActivity class that is designed to host a CrimeListFragment. First, let’s set up a view for CrimeListActivity.

A generic fragment-hosting layout

For CrimeListActivity, you can simply reuse the layout defined in activity_crime.xml (Listing 9.7). This layout provides a FrameLayout as a container view for a fragment, which is then named in the activity’s code.

Listing 9.7  activity_crime.xml is already generic

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