actionbar up navigation with fragments

Question

I have a tabbed Actionbar/viewpager layout with three tabs say A, B, and C. In tab C tab(fragment),I am adding another fragment say fragment D. with

 DFragment f= new DFragment();
 ft.add(android.R.id.content, f, "");
 ft.remove(CFragment.this);
 ft.addToBackStack(null);
 ft.commit();

I modify actionbar in DFragment's onResume to add up button:

ActionBar ab = getActivity().getActionBar();
ab.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD);
ab.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
ab.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

Now in DFragment, when I press hardware(phone) Back button, I return to the original Tabbed(ABC) layout with CFragment selected. How can I achieve this functionality with actionbar up button?

Answer 1

Kotlin:

class MyActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        ...
        supportFragmentManager.addOnBackStackChangedListener { setupHomeAsUp() }
        setupHomeAsUp()
    }

    private fun setupHomeAsUp() {
        val shouldShow = 0 < supportFragmentManager.backStackEntryCount
        supportActionBar?.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(shouldShow)
    }

    override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean = 
        supportFragmentManager.popBackStack().run { true }

    ...
}

Answer 2

This is a very good and reliable solution: http://vinsol.com/blog/2014/10/01/handling-back-button-press-inside-fragments/

The guy has made an abstract fragment that handles the backPress behaviour and is switching between the active fragments using the strategy pattern.

For some of you there maybe a little drawback in the abstract class...

Shortly, the solution from the link goes like this:

// Abstract Fragment handling the back presses

public abstract class BackHandledFragment extends Fragment {
    protected BackHandlerInterface backHandlerInterface;
    public abstract String getTagText();
    public abstract boolean onBackPressed();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        if(!(getActivity()  instanceof BackHandlerInterface)) {
            throw new ClassCastException("Hosting activity must implement BackHandlerInterface");
        } else {
            backHandlerInterface = (BackHandlerInterface) getActivity();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();

        // Mark this fragment as the selected Fragment.
        backHandlerInterface.setSelectedFragment(this);
    }

    public interface BackHandlerInterface {
        public void setSelectedFragment(BackHandledFragment backHandledFragment);
    }
}   

And usage in the activity:

// BASIC ACTIVITY CODE THAT LETS ITS FRAGMENT UTILIZE onBackPress EVENTS 
// IN AN ADAPTIVE AND ORGANIZED PATTERN USING BackHandledFragment

public class TheActivity extends FragmentActivity implements BackHandlerInterface {
    private BackHandledFragment selectedFragment;

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if(selectedFragment == null || !selectedFragment.onBackPressed()) {
            // Selected fragment did not consume the back press event.
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setSelectedFragment(BackHandledFragment selectedFragment) {
        this.selectedFragment = selectedFragment;
    }
}

Answer 3

This worked for me. Override onSupportNavigateUp and onBackPressed, for example (code in Kotlin);

override fun onBackPressed() {
    val count = supportFragmentManager.backStackEntryCount
    if (count == 0) {
        super.onBackPressed()
    } else {
        supportFragmentManager.popBackStack()
    }
}

override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean {
    super.onSupportNavigateUp()
    onBackPressed()
    return true
}

Now in the fragment, if you display the up arrow

activity.supportActionBar?.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true)

Clicking on it takes you back the previous activity.