Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments

Chapter 4. Working with Fragment Transactions

This chapter covers dynamically managing fragments within an activity, implementing back button behavior, and monitoring user interaction with the back button.

Let's have a look at the topics covered:

• Understanding FragmentTransactions
• Dynamically adding and removing fragments
• Managing fragment UI separate from activity relationship
• Adding back button support to FragmentTransactions

By the end of this chapter, we will be able to create interactive UIs that use fragments to dynamically change the appearance of the screen in response to user actions.

Intentional screen management

Until now, we've considered each activity to always correspond to a single screen in our application. We've used fragments only to ...