Pro Android 4

Summary

This chapter introduced the Fragment class and its related classes for the manager, transactions, and subclasses. This is a summary of what’s been covered in this chapter:

• The Fragment class, what it does, and how to use it.
• Why fragments cannot be used without being attached to one and only one activity.
• That although fragments can be instantiated with a static factory method such as newInstance(), you must always have a default constructor and a way to save initialization values into an initialization arguments bundle.
• The lifecycle of a fragment and how it is intertwined with the lifecycle of the activity that owns the fragment.
• FragmentManager and its features.
• Managing device configurations using fragments.
• Combining fragments into ...