Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition

Challenge: A Responsive DialogFragment

For a more involved challenge, modify the presentation of the DatePickerFragment.

The first stage of this challenge is to supply the DatePickerFragment’s view by overriding onCreateView instead of onCreateDialog. When setting up a DialogFragment in this way, your dialog will not be presented with the built-in title area and button area on the top and bottom of the dialog. You will need to create your own OK button in dialog_date.xml.

Once DatePickerFragment’s view is created in onCreateView, you can present DatePickerFragment as a dialog or embedded in an activity. For the second stage of this challenge, create a new subclass of SingleFragmentActivity and host DatePickerFragment in that activity. ...