Is there a method that works like start fragment f

Question

I currently have a fragment in an overlay. This is for signing in to the service. In the phone app, each of the steps I want to show in the overlay are their own screens and activities. There are 3 parts of the sign-in process and each had their own activity that was called with startActivityForResult().

Now I want to do the same thing using fragments and an overlay. The overlay will show a fragment corresponding to each activity. The problem is that these fragments are hosted in an activity in the Honeycomb API. I can get the first fragment working, but then I need to startActivityForResult(), which isn't possible. Is there something along the lines of startFragmentForResult() where I can kick off a new fragment and when it's done have it return a result to the previous fragment?

Answer 1

If you wish, there are some methods for communication between Fragments,

setTargetFragment(Fragment fragment, int requestCode)
getTargetFragment()
getTargetRequestCode()

You can callback using these.

Fragment invoker = getTargetFragment();
if(invoker != null) {
    invoker.callPublicMethod();
}

Answer 2

Another thing you could do depending on your architecture is use a shared ViewModel between the fragments. So in my case FragmentA is a form, and FragmentB is a item selection view where the user can search and select an item, storing it in the ViewModel. Then when I come back to FragmentA, the information is already stored !

Answer 3

The easiest way to pass data back is by setArgument(). For example, you have fragment1 which calls fragment2 which calls fragment3, fragment1 -> framgnet2 -> fargment3

In fragment1

public void navigateToFragment2() {
    if (fragmentManager == null) return;

    Fragment2 fragment = Fragment2.newInstance();
    String tag = "Fragment 2 here";
    fragmentManager.beginTransaction()
            .setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_FADE)
            .add(R.id.flContent, fragment, tag)
            .addToBackStack(null)
            .commitAllowingStateLoss();
}

In fragment2 we call fragment3 as usual

private void navigateToFragment3() {
    if (fragmentManager == null) return;
    Fragment3 fragment = new Fragment3();
    fragmentManager.beginTransaction()
            .setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_FADE)
            .replace(R.id.flContent, fragment, tag)
            .addToBackStack(null)
            .commit();
}

When we finished our task in fragment3 now we call like this:

FragmentManager fragmentManager = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();
if (fragmentManager == null) return;
fragmentManager.popBackStack();
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putString("bundle_filter", "data");
fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag("Fragment 2 here").setArguments(bundle);

Now in fragment2 we can easily call arguments

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    Bundle rgs = getArguments();
    if (args != null) 
        String data = rgs.getString("bundle_filter");
}