The FragmentManager
The FragmentManager is a component that takes care of the fragments belonging to an activity. This includes fragments on the back stack and fragments that may just be hanging around. We’ll explain.
Fragments should only be created within the context of an activity. This occurs either through the inflation of an activity’s layout XML or through direct instantiation using code like that in Listing 8–1. When instantiated through code, a fragment usually gets attached to the activity using a fragment transaction. In either case, the FragmentManager class is used to access and manage these fragments for an activity.
You use the getFragmentManager() method on either an activity or an attached fragment to retrieve a fragment manager. ...
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