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 ...

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