Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments

Making the shift to fragments

Although fragments are a very powerful tool, fundamentally they do something very simple. Fragments group user interface components and their associated logic. Creating the portion of your user interface associated with a fragment is very much like doing so for an activity. In most cases, the view hierarchy for a particular fragment is created from a layout resource; although, just as with activities, the view hierarchy can be programmatically generated.

Creating a layout resource for a fragment follows the same rules and techniques as doing so for an activity. The key difference is that we're looking for opportunities to partition our user interface layout into manageable subsections when working with fragments.