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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition
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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition

by Bill Phillips, Chris Stewart, Brian Hardy, Kristin Marsicano
July 2015
Beginner to intermediate
600 pages
18h 59m
English
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Hosting a UI Fragment

To host a UI fragment, an activity must:

  • define a spot in its layout for the fragment’s view

  • manage the lifecycle of the fragment instance

The fragment lifecycle

Figure 7.12 shows the fragment lifecycle. It is similar to the activity lifecycle: it has stopped, paused, and running states, and it has methods you can override to get things done at critical points – many of which correspond to activity lifecycle methods.

Figure 7.12  Fragment lifecycle diagram

Fragment lifecycle diagram

The correspondence is important. Because a fragment works on behalf of an activity, its state should reflect the activity’s state. ...

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