How to update TextView in a fragment when exiting from another fragment? - android

So I have a fragment A which has a button to open another a fragment B. In fragment B I can pick some options, which is bundled into an Bundleobject. When I exit from fragment B, I want to refresh a TextView in fragment A.
Right now I'm using dismiss() method to remove the fragment, and then call back the fragment again so that onCreateView() is called. It works fine, but I don't want the animation where the fragment windows is run. So I like to not use dismiss() to remove the fragment instead I want to keep it on the Activity, but I need to know how I can refresh fragment A. I've tried overriding onActivityCreated() but it didn't result in the action I wanted.
So I wonder what's the approach if I want to refresh fragment A without having to dismiss it first so that onCreateView() can be called again.
I can attach code if needed. But maybe just an explanation is enough here?

you can use the life cycle function onResume() in fragment A to update the textview.

You can create your own Listener interface ( example how to do it or this) that listens when you remove your fragment, and you can get the event on Fragment A where you can setText to your TextView.

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Calling ShowViewModel on activity, does not show Child fragment

Following the MvvmCross sample here
I am trying to show an activity, that contains a fragment. When I call ShowViewModel on the Activity, I see the activity, without the contained fragment.
If I call ShowViewModel on the Fragment, the Activity AND the Fragment are created.
Does this mean, in order to show a fragment I need to call ShowViewModel on the fragment and not on the parent activity? surly I should be able to call ShowViewModel on the activity and have that create the fragment.
Sorry if i'm missing something here.
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Use onClick Listener for a button located in one of tab fragment, in Main Activity?

Can I use onClick Listener for a button located in one of tab fragment, in Main Activity?
I think you want to perform some action in your MAIN ACTIVITY when a button is clicked in your fragment. If I am right, then just create a interface callback from your fragment to the activity and use the over-ridden method to perform whatever action you require.
Have a look at this
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/fragments/communicating.html
or this
onAttach callback from fragment to activity
Hope this helps.
Yes, you can think of a Fragment as a stand alone user interface that contains it's own animations and logic. So an onClickListener for a Button in a Fragment is no different than in an Activity.
Though the method using Interface is sufficient, this is the simple way to do it.
You can pass context("getActivity()") of MainActivity while calling
the fragment.
Create a method in MainActivity to change the fragment.
call the MainActivity method to set the Fragment.
((MainActivity) context).setFragment(fragment);
you are done.

Refreshing a fragment view from MainActivity

So I currently have an app that has 4 tabs (fragments). They are fragments A,B,C,D, in that order.
Fragment A is the first view opened (along with B because viewPager loads the view before and after the current view).
When I click a button in Fragment A, it sends Data back to MainActivity and then sends that data out to Fragments B and C.
However, this is where the issue comes into play. Since Fragment B was already called, the View isn't updated once I click the button and send the data over, but Fragment C is because the view wasn't called before.
Is there any way that I can remedy this?
You can do it a few ways right.
Just set the data to the fragment and have it update its views
Have all the fragments like B and C register themselves to recieve data from the MainActivity and when MainActivity gets it's data set you tell all the registered receivers of the new data
Recreate the fragment
Use an event bus and tell all subsribers of the new data and MainActivity, Fragment B would get notified of new data. Fragment C would get its data when created by MainActivity
I think this list is pretty endless tbh
The key here is the fragments need to fetch the data from the actvitiy aswell as be updated by the activity. In which case you need to break your UI update behaviour out of onCreateView and into its own updateUI() function. updateUI(MyData) can then be called from onCreateView and also called in a setMyData() on the fragment. Just make sure you check the isAdded flag in setMyData.
This pretty much says it all:
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/fragments/communicating.html
I used a simple fragment communicator that allows the activity to call the fragment, and the same for a fragment to talk to the activity.
You can change the views with the new data based on calling the method from within the activity. The way I do it is set the fragments in the activity then pass them into the page adapter this way I can call the methods within the fragment and implement the fragmentcommunicator interface on the fragments.
You can honestly even avoid the interface if you want, but if you are going to include the same method in all the fragments to talk to them it is easiest.
If you show code, I can show you a quick example.

how to save my fragment content? how to refresh my fragment?

I have 2 fragments which are called from the action bar of an activity. Both are gridviews, the first one displays applications with a dedicated adapter, and the second one displays a file list with another adapter. My problem is that when I launch a file then when I back to my activity I switch from one fragment to another, when I come back to the previous one, its content disappears. And when I rotate tablet I have the some problem, because my Fragment restart so for this I think that removing fragment give the possibility to create a new Fragment up to date. How can I save and reload data in my fragment.
How can I manage to update the content of the first fragment while coming back from the second one ? And how to remove fragment after the rotation in order to recreate the Action with new Fragment? I asked this questions but I don't have any responses. the code is given below
If your data is just strings or integers, you can make use of shared preferences to store and retrieve data.
Solution to your first problem -how to save fragment state
Use setRetainInstance(true) in you fragments onCreate() *it prevents your fragment from destroying and hence recreating.
Add your fragment to back stack
declare your adapter globally in fragment and resuse it when you get back.
when, you get back to fragment its onCreateView() method will be called directly. hence initialize your adapter in onCreate() method and use it in onCreateView().
Solution to your second problem -how to update fragment content
For this you can use interface. create interface in your second fragment and implement it in your first fragment. prefer this doc for this,
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidFragments/article.html#fragments_activitycommunication

Call fragment events from activity

So, I got the event in my fragment to pass to the activity, so how do I make it so the activity in turns, notifies fragment B to do something. I want to fragment B to populate a custom list when fragment A has a list item clicked on. So, it sends the event to the activity, now how do I get the activity to call events in fragment B?
One way to do it would be like this in your activity:
FragmentB fragmentB = (FragmentB)getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragmentBId);
fragmentB.performSomeTask();
This is of course assuming that you have a publicly accessibly method in FragmentB called performSomeTask();
Hope that helps!
The best practice is probably to create interfaces for both fragments and then have the activity implement the interfaces. You want to have good decoupling between fragments so that you can reuse them in other places.

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