Calling a Fragment method from a parent Activity

Question

I see in the Android Fragments Dev Guide that an "activity can call methods in a fragment by acquiring a reference to the Fragment from FragmentManager, using findFragmentById() or findFragmentByTag()."

The example that follows shows how to get a fragment reference, but not how to call specific methods in the fragment.

Can anyone give an example of how to do this? I would like to call a specific method in a Fragment from the parent Activity. Thanks.

Answer 1

FragmentManager fm = getFragmentManager(); 
MainFragment frag = (MainFragment)fm.findFragmentById(R.id.main_fragment); 
frag.<specific_function_name>(); 

Answer 2

First you create method in your fragment like

public void name()
{


}

in your activity you add this

add onCreate() method

myfragment fragment=new myfragment()

finally call the method where you want to call add this

fragment.method_name();

try this code

Answer 3

not get the question exactly as it is too simple :

ExampleFragment fragment = (ExampleFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.example_fragment);
fragment.<specific_function_name>(); 

Update: For those who are using Kotlin

var fragment = supportFragmentManager.findFragmentById(R.id.frameLayoutCW) as WebViewFragment
fragment.callAboutUsActivity()

Answer 4

If you are using “import android.app.Fragment;” Then use either:

1)

ExampleFragment fragment = (ExampleFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.example_fragment); 
fragment.specific_function_name(); 

Where R.id.example_fragment is most likely the FrameLayout id inside your xml layout. OR

2)

ExampleFragment fragment = (ExampleFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(“FragTagName”); 
fragment.specific_function_name(); 

Where FragTagName is the name u specified when u did:

TabHost mTabHost.newTabSpec(“FragTagName”)

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If you are using “import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;” Then use either:

1)

ExampleFragment fragment = (ExampleFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.example_fragment); 
fragment.specific_function_name(); 

OR

2)

ExampleFragment fragment = (ExampleFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(“FragTagName”); 
fragment.specific_function_name(); 

Answer 5

1. If you're not using a support library Fragment, then do the following:

((FragmentName) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_id)).methodName();

2. If you're using a support library Fragment, then do the following:

((FragmentName) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_id)).methodName();

Answer 6

From fragment to activty:

((YourActivityClassName)getActivity()).yourPublicMethod();

From activity to fragment:

FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();

//if you added fragment via layout xml
YourFragmentClass fragment = 
(YourFragmentClass)fm.findFragmentById(R.id.your_fragment_id);
fragment.yourPublicMethod();

If you added fragment via code and used a tag string when you added your fragment, use findFragmentByTag instead:

YourFragmentClass fragment = (YourFragmentClass)fm.findFragmentByTag("yourTag");