January 2017
Beginner to intermediate
624 pages
22h 42m
English
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
Figure 7.11 shows the fragment lifecycle. It is similar to the activity lifecycle: It has stopped, paused, and resumed states, and it has methods you can override to get things done at critical points – many of which correspond to activity lifecycle methods.
Figure 7.11 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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