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Android 9 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Android 9 Development Cookbook Over 100 recipes and solutions to solve the most common problems faced by Android developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991216
Length 464 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Activities FREE CHAPTER 2. Layouts 3. Views, Widgets, and Styles 4. Menus and Action Mode 5. Fragments 6. Home Screen Widgets, Search, and the System UI 7. Data Storage 8. Alerts and Notifications 9. Using the Touchscreen and Sensors 10. Graphics and Animation 11. A First Look at OpenGL ES 12. Multimedia 13. Telephony, Networks, and the Web 14. Location and Using Geofencing 15. Getting Your App Ready for the Play Store 16. Getting Started with Kotlin 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Passing data between Fragments

Often, the need arises to pass information between Fragments. An email application serves as a classic example. It's common to have the list of emails in one Fragment and show the email details in another Fragment (this is commonly referred to as a Master/Detail pattern). Fragments make creating this pattern easier because we only have to code each Fragment once, then include them in different layouts. We can easily have a single Fragment in a portrait layout with the ability to swap out the master Fragment with the detail Fragment when an email is selected. We can also create a two-panel layout where both the list and detail Fragments are side by side. Either way, when the user clicks the email in the list, the email opens up in the detail panel. This is when we need to communicate between two Fragments.

Since one of the primary goals of Fragments...

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