Summary

In this chapter, we covered a lot of ground on creating and managing fragments, including the following topics:

• The Fragment class and what it does, and creating and managing fragments

• How to use a declarative approach for adding fragments to activities using the <fragment> tag

• Using ListFragment with ListAdapter to populate the data

• How to add alternative layout resources from Xamarin Studio layout designer

• How to reuse the fragments to create a multi-pane split view layout for Android tablets

• How to create a dialog using DialogFragment, and create its view hierarchy using the OnCreateDialog() method

• Optimizing the POIApp layout to support large-screen Android tablets

• Dealing with configuration changes to save and retain the fragment state

The next chapter will guide you to deal with data persistence using SQLite in Android.

Let's take a look at the following references:

• http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2012/11/designing-for-tablets-were-here-to-help.html

• https://developer.android...