Difference between onCreateView and onViewCreated

Question

What's the essential difference between these two methods? When I create a TextView, should I use one over the other for performance?

Edit: What's the difference from

onCreateView() {
  root = some view
  View v = new View(some context);
  root.add(v);
  return root;
}


onViewCreated() {
  View v = new View(some context);
  getView().add(v);
}

Answer 1

It's better to do any assignment of subviews to fields in onViewCreated. This is because the framework does an automatic null check for you to ensure that your Fragment's view hierarchy has been created and inflated (if using an XML layout file) properly.

Code snippet from: FragmentManger.java

// This calls onCreateView()
f.mView = f.performCreateView(f.getLayoutInflater(f.mSavedFragmentState), null, f.mSavedFragmentState);

// Null check avoids possible NPEs in onViewCreated
// It's also safe to call getView() during or after onViewCreated()
if (f.mView != null) {
    f.mView.setSaveFromParentEnabled(false);
    if (f.mHidden) f.mView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    f.onViewCreated(f.mView, f.mSavedFragmentState);
}

Answer 2

onViewCreated is called immediately after onCreateView (the method you initialize and create all your objects, including your TextView), so it's not a matter of performance.

From the developer site:

onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState)

Called immediately after onCreateView(LayoutInflater, ViewGroup, Bundle) has returned, but before any saved state has been restored in to the view. This gives subclasses a chance to initialize themselves once they know their view hierarchy has been completely created. The fragment's view hierarchy is not however attached to its parent at this point.