Get text from edit text fields that are in multiple tabs - android

I am trying to create an android application that uses tabs for an input form. Basically I want it set up so the user can enter some information on one tab, then either submit that information, or go to another tab and enter more information and then submit the information from both tabs.
I am using the action bar and fragments to display my tabs from one activity.
If I enter text in one tab then switch to the other, then switch back, the text is still there, but I can seem to figure out how to grab the text from the tab that is not currently shown when the submit button is clicked.
Is there any way of doing this?
Ok heres my code so far. I'm new to posting here sorry.
My tabs are set up using this:
ActionBar bar = getActionBar();
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
//initiate tabs, set text and set listeners
Tab tab = bar.newTab();
tab.setText("Details");
tab.setTabListener(new TabListener<DetailsFragment>(this, "Details", DetailsFragment.class));
bar.addTab(tab);
tab = bar.newTab();
tab.setText("Comments");
tab.setTabListener(new TabListener<CommentsFragment>(this, "Details", CommentsFragment.class));
bar.addTab(tab);
My TabListener:
private class TabListener<T extends Fragment> implements ActionBar.TabListener{
private Fragment mFragment;
private final Activity mActivity;
private final String mTag;
private final Class<T> mClass;
public TabListener(Activity activity, String tag, Class<T> clz){
mActivity = activity;
mTag = tag;
mClass = clz;
}
public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
//check if the fragment is already initialized
if(mFragment == null){
//if not, instantiate and add it to the activity
mFragment = Fragment.instantiate(mActivity, mClass.getName());
ft.add(android.R.id.content, mFragment, mTag);
}
else{
//if it exists, attach it in order to show it
ft.attach(mFragment);
}
}
My on click listener:
public void onClick(View v) {
titleText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textTitle);
authorText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textAuthor);
seriesText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textSeries);
pubText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textPublisher);
isbnText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textISBN);
commentsText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textComments);
String title = titleText.getText().toString();
String author = authorText.getText().toString();
String series = seriesText.getText().toString();
String pub = pubText.getText().toString();
String isbn = isbnText.getText().toString();
String comments = commentsText.getText().toString();
My fragment classes look like this:
public class DetailsFragment extends Fragment{
#Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState){
return inflater.inflate(R.layout.detailsfragment, container, false);
}
}
and an example of their layout:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/detailsTab"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="center_horizontal">
<EditText android:id="#+id/textTitle"
android:hint="#string/textTitle"
android:inputType="textCapWords"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10"
android:layout_marginBottom="15dp"
android:layout_marginTop="25dp">
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
<EditText android:id="#+id/textAuthor"
android:hint="#string/textAuthor"
android:inputType="textCapWords"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10"
android:layout_margin="15dp"/>
If there is any other code you want to see I can post that as well.

Ok so I figured out a way to get it to work how i want it to. I doubt its the best way of doing it but heres what I did.
In the onTabUnselected in the TabListener I added a function right before I detach the fragment to check which fragment is about to be detached and then save the data to variables stored in the activity.
public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft)
{
if(mFragment != null)
{
saveData(mFragment);
//Detach the fragment
ft.detach(mFragment);
}
}
public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
//do nothing
}
}
private void saveData(Fragment frag){
if(frag.getTag() == "Details")
{
titleText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textTitle);
title = titleText.getText().toString();
authorText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textAuthor);
author = authorText.getText().toString();
}
else if(frag.getTag() == "Comments")
{
commentsText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textComments);
comments = commentsText.getText().toString();
}
}
I still feel like there has to be a better way of doing this since the data is retained when i switch between tabs in the text boxes.

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replace the Fragment within the tab(Without viewpager)

I have 2 tabs in my app.Each have single fragment initially.
Scenario 1(Tab 1):
I 'm adding a second fragment in the tab on Button Click from the first fragment & again a third fragment on button click from second fragment.
Scenario 2(Tab 2):
Similar as tab1
Scenario 2(Switch between the Tab):
As I switch between the tab.I'm unable to get same tab fragment which I have added in the respective tab.
Below is my code:(First Fragment Tab1)
public class ArticleFragment extends Fragment {
#Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
ViewGroup view=(ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.article_fragment, container,false);
fragmentTabHost.setup(getActivity(), getChildFragmentManager() , R.id.frag_container);
Button article_button = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.article_btn);
article_button.setOnClickListener( new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
article_txt.setText("Changed Value");
ArticleDetails articleFragment = new ArticleDetails();
fragmentTransaction.add(ScreenFragmentActivity.getContainertId(), articleFragment, AppConstants.ARTICLE_FRAGMENT_DETAILS);
fragmentTransaction.hide(ArticleFragment.this);
fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack(ArticleFragment.class.getName());
fragmentTransaction.commit();
}
});
return view;
}
}
Second Fragment Tab1:
public class ArticleDetails extends Fragment {
#Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
ViewGroup view=(ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.article_details, container,false);
Button article_button = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.article_details_btn);
article_button.setOnClickListener( new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ArticleDetailsWithIn articleFragment = new ArticleDetailsWithIn();
fragmentTransaction.add(ScreenFragmentActivity.getContainertId(), articleFragment,
AppConstants.ARTICLE_FRAGMENT_DETAILS_WITHIN);
fragmentTransaction.hide(ArticleDetails.this);
fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack(null);
fragmentTransaction.commit();
}
});
return view;
}
My Layout:
<android.support.v4.app.FragmentTabHost
android:id="#+id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TabWidget
android:id="#+id/tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"
android:orientation="horizontal" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v4.app.FragmentTabHost>
So Basically I'm trying to add the new Fragment within the tab .But on Switch I'm not able to retain my respective fragment
You can try this - tag your fragments with some name and store this in any static helper class using getter/setter method. Make your first fragment tag name as default (this is for first time launch). Then at place where you have logic to add new fragments, put the required if-else statements. Same goes for other tab also. (you can even use shared preferences, if you want to remember last seen fragment even when app is closed and restarted again.)
Create a static helper class.
public class HelperClass {
private static string TabOneFragmentOnScreen = "";
public static String getTabOneFragmentOnScreen () {
return TabOneFragmentOnScreen ;
}
public static void setTabOneFragmentOnScreen(
String TabOneFragmentOnScreen) {
HelperClass.TabOneFragmentOnScreen = TabOneFragmentOnScreen;
}
}
When you click one TabOne
if(HelperClass.getTabOneFragmentOnScreen.equals("")){
HelperClass.setTabOneFragmentOnScreen("FragmentOne");
//logic to add fragment one goes here
}
if(HelperClass.getTabOneFragmentOnScreen.equals("FragmentTwo")){
HelperClass.setTabOneFragmentOnScreen("FragmentTwo");
//logic to add fragment two goes here
}
This way it will always remember the last fragment on screen under tab one.
This code is not complete, but you can develop further on this logic.

Replacing ListFragment with another within ActionBar - new listfragment replaces other fragments, IllegalStateException when pressing back

Okay, so I have a problem.
I have an activity, which controls an ActionBar. In it's onCreate i populate the actionbar like this:
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
//...some other things
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
siteSpecificFragmentManager.populateActionBar(this, actionBar);
}
The last line refers to my method that populates action bar with tabs depending on what tabs I want to show, which ones I want to hide, etc, etc... An example I'm using looks like this. CategoriesFragment is a ListFragment that has no corresponding layout xml, and OfflineFragment is a simple Fragment with a layout xml.
public void populateActionBar(Activity activity, ActionBar bar) {
Tab tab = bar.newTab().setText(R.string.tab_sites).setTabListener(
new TabListener<CategoriesFragment>(activity,"tag1",CategoriesFragment.class));
bar.addTab(tab);
tab = bar.newTab().setText(R.string.tab_offline).setTabListener(
new TabListener<OfflineFragment>(activity,"tag2", OfflineFragment.class));
bar.addTab(tab);
}
TabListener looks like this:
public class MyFragmentListener<T extends Fragment> implements
android.app.ActionBar.TabListener {
public MyFragmentListener(Activity activity, String tag, Class<T> tClass) {
this(activity, tag, tClass, null);
}
public MyFragmentListener(Activity activity, String tag, Class<T> tClass,
Bundle bundle) {
this.activity = activity;
this.tag = tag;
this.tClass = tClass;
this.bundle = bundle;
fragment = activity.getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(tag);
if(fragment != null && !fragment.isDetached()){
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = activity.getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.detach(fragment);
fragmentTransaction.commit();
}
}
#Override
public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
}
#Override
public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
if(fragment == null){
fragment = Fragment.instantiate(activity, tClass.getName(),bundle);
ft.add(android.R.id.content,fragment, tag);
} else{
ft.attach(fragment);
}
}
#Override
public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
if(fragment != null){
ft.detach(fragment);
}
}
}
Ok, all set, let's try whether it works. When the activity starts, I see two tabs on ActionBar, I can switch between both without any problems. First tab contains the list, second tab contains some other things.
When I select an item from the list, I want to push a new ListFragment, called SubcategoryFragment onto it. Here's how I'm doing it:
public void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putString("chosen", category[position]);
Fragment fragment = new SubcategoryFragment();
fragment.setArguments(bundle);
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.replace(getId(), fragment);
fragmentTransaction.setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_OPEN);
fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack("category_to_subcategory");
fragmentTransaction.commit();
}
And the problems are ->
1: When I select an item in the first tab, my fragment is replaced by the subcategory fragment. However, the list of the subcategory fragment overlays the content of the second, offline tab, the list drawn over the contents.
2: When I press back after switching from category to subcategory, the subcategory fragment pops, and I'm returned to category list. That's okay.
When I select a category, to make a subcategoryfragment, switch to the second tab, and press back, the list disappears. When I click back to 1st tab, the Category fragment is not visible.
3: When I do the things mentioned above, and instead of pressing back in the second tab, i switch back to first tab, and then press back, I'm greeted with
06-15 20:11:12.151: E/AndroidRuntime(18971): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fragment already added: CategoriesFragment{414d9350 #0 id=0x1020002 fanfictionnet_categories}
So, as you can see, something doesn't work as I'd like it to. What am I doing wrong?

Calling addToBackStack() on a Fragment that is added via ActionBar

So basically, I have a simple Fragment that uses an AsyncTask to download a bitmap from a URL and then displays it inside an ImageView.
This is the Fragment's code:
public class TestFragment extends Fragment {
public TestFragment () {}
private String pictureUrl = "https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/532762_10150739418088211_1186720820_n.jpg";
private TextView sampleText;
private ImageView sampleImage;
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_view, container, false);
String textToSet = "Section Three";
sampleText = (TextView) root.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
sampleText.setText(textToSet);
sampleImage = (ImageView) root.findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
DownloadImageTask task = new DownloadImageTask(pictureUrl, root, sampleImage.getId());
task.execute();
return root;
}
}
This same fragment is displayed three times, one per each tab inside an ActionBar. The problem I am having is that each time the user selects a different tab, the previous one is destroyed, and when the user navigates back to the original tab, the content needs to be redownloaded. I want to make sure that the least amount of resources are consumed (saving both Data, and valuable overHead processing).
Here is the Fragment Container activity:
public class LayoutContainer extends Activity{
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_layout_container);
if (savedInstanceState != null) {
return;
}
final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
Tab tab = actionBar.newTab()
.setText(R.string.title_section1)
.setTabListener(new TabListener<TestFragment>(
this, "one", TestFragment.class));
actionBar.addTab(tab);
tab = actionBar.newTab()
.setText(R.string.title_section2)
.setTabListener(new TabListener<TestFragment>(
this, "two", TestFragment.class));
actionBar.addTab(tab);
tab = actionBar.newTab()
.setText(R.string.title_section3)
.setTabListener(new TabListener<TestFragment>(
this, "three", TestFragment.class));
actionBar.addTab(tab);
}
public static class TabListener<T extends Fragment> implements ActionBar.TabListener {
private Fragment mFragment;
private final Activity mActivity;
private final String mTag;
private final Class<T> mClass;
public TabListener(Activity activity, String tag, Class<T> clz) {
mActivity = activity;
mTag = tag;
mClass = clz;
}
public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
if (mFragment == null) {
mFragment = Fragment.instantiate(mActivity, mClass.getName());
}
ft.replace(android.R.id.content, mFragment, mTag);
}
public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
ft.addToBackStack(null);
ft.commit();
}
public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
}
}
I currently have it set to call ft.replace() on the OnTabSelected() method, but I had previously tried with ft.add(). Same goes for my current ft.addToBackStack() call inside OnTabUnselected(), I initially had it set for simply calling ft.detach() but that was doing the same thing I described as being my problem. It loads that way, but it has to download the image every single time.
Now, I have tried calling addToBackStack() but the app force closes stating the FragmentTransaction CANNOT be added to the back stack. I also tried in the past to cache the image offline, to avoid data consumption, the app would still need to parse the image from a local URI and use processing power.
Any ideas I can try?
FYI, Yes, I know that the same fragment is loading the same image on all three tabs. This is merely a test project that is intended to help me better understand the lifecycle of Fragments.
So After a lot of reading I realized that the important code block is not done on your TabListener but in fact done on each Fragment that you use.
The fragment WILL be detached when navigating away from it, but that does not mean I cannot retain it state using onSaveInstanceState(...).
Here is simple implementation of what was needed to retain the Fragment's state after it being detached.
public class TimelineFragment extends ListFragment{
...
public TimelineFragment () {}
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState){
getActivity().getFragmentManager().putFragment(outState, TAG, this);
}
public void onRetoreInstanceState(Bundle inState){
getActivity().getFragmentManager().getFragment(inState, TAG);
}
...
}
We are saving the Fragment by calling putFragment(), and restoring it by calling getFragment(). Pretty darn simple, and I never thought of it.
What I do when a user need an image from the web I first check if I've cached it or the image is at the SD. If the image can't be found at SD or cache I download the image, store it to SD and add it to the cache.
It usually goes something like this:
Bitmap cacheBitmap = Database.getImageFromMemory(exercise.image, getActivity());
if(cacheBitmap != null) {
image.setImageBitmap(cacheBitmap);
progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
Bitmap localBitmap = ImageDownloader.decodeSampledBitmap(exercise.image, width, height, getActivity());
if(localBitmap != null) {
image.setImageBitmap(localBitmap);
progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
Database.addBitmapToMemoryCache(exercise.image, localBitmap, getActivity());
} else {
ImageDownloader imageDownloader = new ImageDownloader(this.getActivity().getApplicationContext(), image, progressBar, width, height);
imageDownloader.execute(exercise.image);
}
Now this is not all the code but it gives you an idea about how to handle it. If you need more code feel free to ask, but it seems like you are on the right track.

Fragment Navigation Inside a Tabbed Action Bar

The Problem
Before I describe my current setup I will describe my problem. I need to have hierarchal navigation between fragments inside separate tabs. Say I drill down on level in a tab, I then switch tabs and then go back to the first, original tab, I need it to be on the drilled down level and then have the ability to go back up to the top level of that tab.
Now onto my setup.
I have an application with one activity called MainActivity. This activity is what controls my tabbed action bar. I have followed many different tutorials to handle the switching of Fragments when a tab is selected and here is the code below that works drawing your attention to the onTabSelected and onTabUnselected methods.
MainActivity -- Tab Listener
public static class MyTabListener<T extends Fragment> implements ActionBar.TabListener {
private final Activity mActivity;
private final String mTag;
private final Class<T> mClass;
private final Bundle mArgs;
private Fragment mFragment;
public MyTabListener(Activity activity, String tag, Class<T> clz) {
this(activity, tag, clz, null);
}
public MyTabListener(Activity activity, String tag, Class<T> clz, Bundle args) {
mActivity = activity;
mTag = tag;
mClass = clz;
mArgs = args;
// Check to see if we already have a fragment for this tab, probably
// from a previously saved state. If so, deactivate it, because our
// initial state is that a tab isn't shown.
mFragment = mActivity.getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(mTag);
if (mFragment != null && !mFragment.isDetached()) {
FragmentTransaction ft = mActivity.getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ft.detach(mFragment);
ft.commit();
}
}
public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
Log.e("FRAGMENT","Selected Fragment With Tag " + mTag);
if (mFragment == null) {
mFragment = Fragment.instantiate(mActivity, mClass.getName(), mArgs);
ft.add(android.R.id.content, mFragment, mTag);
} else {
ft.attach(mFragment);
}
}
public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
if (mFragment != null) {
ft.detach(mFragment);
}
}
public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
Toast.makeText(mActivity, "Reselected!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
When I am on Tab1 viewing Fragment1', when a button is pressed I then show anotherFragmentcalledFragment2` which I need the ability to go back from. The code below works if I just stay on that tab however when navigating away from the tab and back to it, everything messes up.
MainActivity -- Showing second fragment
Fragment tdFrag = Fragment.instantiate(this, SecondFragment.class.getName());
FragmentTransaction ft = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ft.replace(android.R.id.content, tdFrag, "secondfrag");
ft.addToBackStack(null);
ft.commit();
My Thoughts
I think it must be the way I detach the fragments and handle the switching over when a new tab is pressed. Maybe I need to implement some way of storing each individual backstack for each tab and loading the fragments from that instead of the system back stack?
Any help would be great. I have tried to explain it as thoroughly and simply as possible.
Thanks in advance.
Ok so after a bit of experimentation I decided to implement a custom backstack using enumerated types.
I have two types of enumerated types: a ViewType and CurrentTab type. The CurrentTab type tells me what tab I'm currently viewing and the ViewType tells me what view is being viewed in these tabs. I have an instance of a ViewType for each tab I have to store where I am in the hieerarchy.
To implement a backstack I override the method thats called when the back button is pressed.
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
return true;
}
return super.onKeyDone(keyCode,event);
}
So in where it checks for the back button I put my code to check the current tab and the separate view types. That way I know where I am and if I push back I know where I need to go.
I hope this helps any questions just post a comment.

Separate Back Stack for each tab in Android using Fragments

I'm trying to implement tabs for navigation in an Android app. Since TabActivity and ActivityGroup are deprecated I would like to implement it using Fragments instead.
I know how to set up one fragment for each tab and then switch fragments when a tab is clicked. But how can I have a separate back stack for each tab?
For an example Fragment A and B would be under Tab 1 and Fragment C and D under Tab 2. When the app is started Fragment A is shown and Tab 1 is selected. Then Fragment A might be replaced with Fragment B. When Tab 2 is selected Fragment C should be displayed. If Tab 1 is then selected Fragment B should once again be displayed. At this point it should be possible to use the back button to show Fragment A.
Also, it is important that the state for each tab is maintained when the device is rotated.
BR
Martin
Read this before using this solution
Wow, I still can't believe this answer is the one with most votes in this thread. Please don't blindly follow this implementation. I wrote this solution in 2012 (when I was just a novice in Android). Ten years down the line, I can see there is a terrible issue with this solution.
I am storing hard reference to fragments to implement the navigation stack. It is a terrible practice and would result in memory leak. Let the FragmentManager saves the reference to fragments. Just store the fragment identifier if needed.
My answer can be used with above modification if needed. But I don't think we need to write a multi stacked navigation implementation from scratch. There is surely a much better readymade solution for this. I am not much into Android nowadays, so can't point to any.
I am keeping the original answer for the sake of completeness.
Original answer
I am terribly late to this question . But since this thread has been very informative and helpful to me I thought I better post my two pence here.
I needed a screen flow like this (A minimalistic design with 2 tabs and 2 views in each tab),
tabA
-> ScreenA1, ScreenA2
tabB
-> ScreenB1, ScreenB2
I had the same requirements in the past, and I did it using TabActivityGroup (which was deprecated at that time too) and Activities. This time I wanted to use Fragments.
So this is how I done it.
1. Create a base Fragment Class
public class BaseFragment extends Fragment {
AppMainTabActivity mActivity;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mActivity = (AppMainTabActivity) this.getActivity();
}
public void onBackPressed(){
}
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data){
}
}
All fragments in your app can extend this Base class. If you want to use special fragments like ListFragment you should create a base class for that too. You will be clear about the usage of onBackPressed() and onActivityResult() if you read the post in full..
2. Create some Tab identifiers, accessible everywhere in project
public class AppConstants{
public static final String TAB_A = "tab_a_identifier";
public static final String TAB_B = "tab_b_identifier";
//Your other constants, if you have them..
}
nothing to explain here..
3. Ok, Main Tab Activity- Please go through comments in code..
public class AppMainFragmentActivity extends FragmentActivity{
/* Your Tab host */
private TabHost mTabHost;
/* A HashMap of stacks, where we use tab identifier as keys..*/
private HashMap<String, Stack<Fragment>> mStacks;
/*Save current tabs identifier in this..*/
private String mCurrentTab;
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.app_main_tab_fragment_layout);
/*
* Navigation stacks for each tab gets created..
* tab identifier is used as key to get respective stack for each tab
*/
mStacks = new HashMap<String, Stack<Fragment>>();
mStacks.put(AppConstants.TAB_A, new Stack<Fragment>());
mStacks.put(AppConstants.TAB_B, new Stack<Fragment>());
mTabHost = (TabHost)findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);
mTabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(listener);
mTabHost.setup();
initializeTabs();
}
private View createTabView(final int id) {
View view = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.tabs_icon, null);
ImageView imageView = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.tab_icon);
imageView.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(id));
return view;
}
public void initializeTabs(){
/* Setup your tab icons and content views.. Nothing special in this..*/
TabHost.TabSpec spec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(AppConstants.TAB_A);
mTabHost.setCurrentTab(-3);
spec.setContent(new TabHost.TabContentFactory() {
public View createTabContent(String tag) {
return findViewById(R.id.realtabcontent);
}
});
spec.setIndicator(createTabView(R.drawable.tab_home_state_btn));
mTabHost.addTab(spec);
spec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(AppConstants.TAB_B);
spec.setContent(new TabHost.TabContentFactory() {
public View createTabContent(String tag) {
return findViewById(R.id.realtabcontent);
}
});
spec.setIndicator(createTabView(R.drawable.tab_status_state_btn));
mTabHost.addTab(spec);
}
/*Comes here when user switch tab, or we do programmatically*/
TabHost.OnTabChangeListener listener = new TabHost.OnTabChangeListener() {
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
/*Set current tab..*/
mCurrentTab = tabId;
if(mStacks.get(tabId).size() == 0){
/*
* First time this tab is selected. So add first fragment of that tab.
* Dont need animation, so that argument is false.
* We are adding a new fragment which is not present in stack. So add to stack is true.
*/
if(tabId.equals(AppConstants.TAB_A)){
pushFragments(tabId, new AppTabAFirstFragment(), false,true);
}else if(tabId.equals(AppConstants.TAB_B)){
pushFragments(tabId, new AppTabBFirstFragment(), false,true);
}
}else {
/*
* We are switching tabs, and target tab is already has atleast one fragment.
* No need of animation, no need of stack pushing. Just show the target fragment
*/
pushFragments(tabId, mStacks.get(tabId).lastElement(), false,false);
}
}
};
/* Might be useful if we want to switch tab programmatically, from inside any of the fragment.*/
public void setCurrentTab(int val){
mTabHost.setCurrentTab(val);
}
/*
* To add fragment to a tab.
* tag -> Tab identifier
* fragment -> Fragment to show, in tab identified by tag
* shouldAnimate -> should animate transaction. false when we switch tabs, or adding first fragment to a tab
* true when when we are pushing more fragment into navigation stack.
* shouldAdd -> Should add to fragment navigation stack (mStacks.get(tag)). false when we are switching tabs (except for the first time)
* true in all other cases.
*/
public void pushFragments(String tag, Fragment fragment,boolean shouldAnimate, boolean shouldAdd){
if(shouldAdd)
mStacks.get(tag).push(fragment);
FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction();
if(shouldAnimate)
ft.setCustomAnimations(R.anim.slide_in_right, R.anim.slide_out_left);
ft.replace(R.id.realtabcontent, fragment);
ft.commit();
}
public void popFragments(){
/*
* Select the second last fragment in current tab's stack..
* which will be shown after the fragment transaction given below
*/
Fragment fragment = mStacks.get(mCurrentTab).elementAt(mStacks.get(mCurrentTab).size() - 2);
/*pop current fragment from stack.. */
mStacks.get(mCurrentTab).pop();
/* We have the target fragment in hand.. Just show it.. Show a standard navigation animation*/
FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction();
ft.setCustomAnimations(R.anim.slide_in_left, R.anim.slide_out_right);
ft.replace(R.id.realtabcontent, fragment);
ft.commit();
}
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
if(mStacks.get(mCurrentTab).size() == 1){
// We are already showing first fragment of current tab, so when back pressed, we will finish this activity..
finish();
return;
}
/* Each fragment represent a screen in application (at least in my requirement, just like an activity used to represent a screen). So if I want to do any particular action
* when back button is pressed, I can do that inside the fragment itself. For this I used AppBaseFragment, so that each fragment can override onBackPressed() or onActivityResult()
* kind of events, and activity can pass it to them. Make sure just do your non navigation (popping) logic in fragment, since popping of fragment is done here itself.
*/
((AppBaseFragment)mStacks.get(mCurrentTab).lastElement()).onBackPressed();
/* Goto previous fragment in navigation stack of this tab */
popFragments();
}
/*
* Imagine if you wanted to get an image selected using ImagePicker intent to the fragment. Ofcourse I could have created a public function
* in that fragment, and called it from the activity. But couldn't resist myself.
*/
#Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if(mStacks.get(mCurrentTab).size() == 0){
return;
}
/*Now current fragment on screen gets onActivityResult callback..*/
mStacks.get(mCurrentTab).lastElement().onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
}
}
4. app_main_tab_fragment_layout.xml (In case anyone interested.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0"/>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+android:id/realtabcontent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"/>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
5. AppTabAFirstFragment.java (First fragment in Tab A, simliar for all Tabs)
public class AppTabAFragment extends BaseFragment {
private Button mGotoButton;
#Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_one_layout, container, false);
mGoToButton = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.goto_button);
mGoToButton.setOnClickListener(listener);
return view;
}
private OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener(){
#Override
public void onClick(View v){
/* Go to next fragment in navigation stack*/
mActivity.pushFragments(AppConstants.TAB_A, new AppTabAFragment2(),true,true);
}
}
}
This might not be the most polished and correct way. But it worked beautifully in my case. Also I only had this requirement in portrait mode. I never had to use this code in a project supporting both orientation. So can't say what kind of challenges I face there..
If anyone want a full project, I have pushed a sample project to github.
We had to implement exactly that same behaviour that you describe for an app recently. The screens and overall flow of the application were already defined so we had to stick with it (it's an iOS app clone...). Luckily, we managed to get rid of the on-screen back buttons :)
We hacked the solution using a mixture of TabActivity, FragmentActivities (we were using the support library for fragments) and Fragments. In retrospective, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the best architecture decision, but we managed to get the thing working. If I had to do it again, I'd probably try to do a more activity-based solution (no fragments), or try and have only one Activity for the tabs and let all the rest be views (which I find are much more reusable than activities overall).
So the requirements were to have some tabs and nestable screens in each tab:
tab 1
screen 1 -> screen 2 -> screen 3
tab 2
screen 4
tab 3
screen 5 -> 6
etc...
So say: user starts in tab 1, navigates from screen 1 to screen 2 then to screen 3, he then switches to tab 3 and navigates from screen 4 to 6; if the switched back to tab 1, he should see screen 3 again and if he pressed Back he should return to screen 2; Back again and he is in screen 1; switch to tab 3 and he's in screen 6 again.
The main Activity in the application is MainTabActivity, which extends TabActivity. Each tab is associated with an activity, lets say ActivityInTab1, 2 and 3. And then each screen will be a fragment:
MainTabActivity
ActivityInTab1
Fragment1 -> Fragment2 -> Fragment3
ActivityInTab2
Fragment4
ActivityInTab3
Fragment5 -> Fragment6
Each ActivityInTab holds only one fragment at a time, and knows how to replace one fragment for another one (pretty much the same as an ActvityGroup). The cool thing is that it's quite easy to mantain separate back stacks for each tab this way.
The functionality for each ActivityInTab was quite the same: know how to navigate from one fragment to another and maintain a back stack, so we put that in a base class. Let's call it simply ActivityInTab:
abstract class ActivityInTab extends FragmentActivity { // FragmentActivity is just Activity for the support library.
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_in_tab);
}
/**
* Navigates to a new fragment, which is added in the fragment container
* view.
*
* #param newFragment
*/
protected void navigateTo(Fragment newFragment) {
FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction();
ft.replace(R.id.content, newFragment);
// Add this transaction to the back stack, so when the user presses back,
// it rollbacks.
ft.addToBackStack(null);
ft.commit();
}
}
The activity_in_tab.xml is just this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:isScrollContainer="true">
</RelativeLayout>
As you can see, the view layout for each tab was the same. That's because it's just a FrameLayout called content that will hold each fragment. The fragments are the ones that have each screen's view.
Just for the bonus points, we also added some little code to show a confirm dialog when the user presses Back and there are no more fragments to go back to:
// In ActivityInTab.java...
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();
if (manager.getBackStackEntryCount() > 0) {
// If there are back-stack entries, leave the FragmentActivity
// implementation take care of them.
super.onBackPressed();
} else {
// Otherwise, ask user if he wants to leave :)
showExitDialog();
}
}
That's pretty much the setup. As you can see, each FragmentActivity (or just simply Activity in Android >3) is taking care of all the back-stacking with it's own FragmentManager.
An activity like ActivityInTab1 will be really simple, it'll just show it's first fragment (i.e. screen):
public class ActivityInTab1 extends ActivityInTab {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
navigateTo(new Fragment1());
}
}
Then, if a fragment needs to navigate to another fragment, it has to do a little nasty casting... but it's not that bad:
// In Fragment1.java for example...
// Need to navigate to Fragment2.
((ActivityIntab) getActivity()).navigateTo(new Fragment2());
So that's pretty much it. I'm pretty sure this is not a very canonical (and mostly sure not very good) solution, so I'd like to ask seasoned Android developers what would be a better approach to acheive this functionality, and if this is not "how it's done" in Android, I'd appreciate if you could point me to some link or material that explains which is the Android way to approach this (tabs, nested screens in tabs, etc). Feel free to tear apart this answer in the comments :)
As a sign that this solution is not very good is that recently I had to add some navigation functionality to the application. Some bizarre button that should take the user from one tab into another and into a nested screen. Doing that programmatically was a pain in the butt, because of who-knows-who problems and dealing with when are fragments and activities actually instantiated and initialized. I think it would have been much easier if those screens and tabs were all just Views really.
Finally, if you need to survive orientation changes, it's important that your fragments are created using setArguments/getArguments. If you set instance variables in your fragments' constructors you'll be screwed. But fortunately that's really easy to fix: just save everything in setArguments in the constructor and then retrieve those things with getArguments in onCreate to use them.
The framework won't currently do this for you automatically. You will need to build and manage your own back stacks for each tab.
To be honest, this seems like a really questionable thing to do. I can't imagine it resulting in a decent UI -- if the back key is going to do different things depending on the tab I am, especially if the back key also has its normal behavior of closing the entire activity when at the top of the stack... sounds nasty.
If you are trying to build something like a web browser UI, to get a UX that is natural to the user is going to involve a lot of subtle tweaks of behavior depending on context, so you'll definitely need to do your own back stack management rather than rely on some default implementation in the framework. For an example try paying attention to how the back key interacts with the standard browser in the various ways you can go in and out of it. (Each "window" in the browser is essentially a tab.)
This can be easily achieved with ChildFragmentManager
Here is post about this with associated project. take a look,
http://tausiq.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/android-multiple-fragments-stack-in-each-viewpager-tab/
Storing strong references to fragments is not the correct way.
FragmentManager provides putFragment(Bundle, String, Fragment) and saveFragmentInstanceState(Fragment).
Either one is enough to implement a backstack.
Using putFragment, instead of replacing a Fragment, you detach the old one and add the new one. This is what the framework does to a replace transaction that is added to the backstack. putFragment stores an index to the current list of active Fragments and those Fragments are saved by the framework during orientation changes.
The second way, using saveFragmentInstanceState, saves the whole fragment state to a Bundle allowing you to really remove it, rather than detaching. Using this approach makes the back stack easier to manipulate, as you can pop a Fragment whenever you want.
I used the second method for this usecase:
SignInFragment ----> SignUpFragment ---> ChooseBTDeviceFragment
\ /
\------------------------/
I don't want the user to return to the Sign Up screen, from the third one, by pressing the back button. I also do flip animations between them (using onCreateAnimation), so hacky solutions won't work, atleast without the user clearly noticing something is not right.
This is a valid use case for a custom backstack, doing what the user expects...
private static final String STATE_BACKSTACK = "SetupActivity.STATE_BACKSTACK";
private MyBackStack mBackStack;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle state) {
super.onCreate(state);
if (state == null) {
mBackStack = new MyBackStack();
FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction tr = fm.beginTransaction();
tr.add(R.id.act_base_frg_container, new SignInFragment());
tr.commit();
} else {
mBackStack = state.getParcelable(STATE_BACKSTACK);
}
}
#Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
outState.putParcelable(STATE_BACKSTACK, mBackStack);
}
private void showFragment(Fragment frg, boolean addOldToBackStack) {
final FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
final Fragment oldFrg = fm.findFragmentById(R.id.act_base_frg_container);
FragmentTransaction tr = fm.beginTransaction();
tr.replace(R.id.act_base_frg_container, frg);
// This is async, the fragment will only be removed after this returns
tr.commit();
if (addOldToBackStack) {
mBackStack.push(fm, oldFrg);
}
}
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
MyBackStackEntry entry;
if ((entry = mBackStack.pop()) != null) {
Fragment frg = entry.recreate(this);
FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction tr = fm.beginTransaction();
tr.replace(R.id.act_base_frg_container, frg);
tr.commit();
// Pop it now, like the framework implementation.
fm.executePendingTransactions();
} else {
super.onBackPressed();
}
}
public class MyBackStack implements Parcelable {
private final List<MyBackStackEntry> mList;
public MyBackStack() {
mList = new ArrayList<MyBackStackEntry>(4);
}
public void push(FragmentManager fm, Fragment frg) {
push(MyBackStackEntry.newEntry(fm, frg);
}
public void push(MyBackStackEntry entry) {
if (entry == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
mList.add(entry);
}
public MyBackStackEntry pop() {
int idx = mList.size() - 1;
return (idx != -1) ? mList.remove(idx) : null;
}
#Override
public int describeContents() {
return 0;
}
#Override
public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
final int len = mList.size();
dest.writeInt(len);
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
// MyBackStackEntry's class is final, theres no
// need to use writeParcelable
mList.get(i).writeToParcel(dest, flags);
}
}
protected MyBackStack(Parcel in) {
int len = in.readInt();
List<MyBackStackEntry> list = new ArrayList<MyBackStackEntry>(len);
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
list.add(MyBackStackEntry.CREATOR.createFromParcel(in));
}
mList = list;
}
public static final Parcelable.Creator<MyBackStack> CREATOR =
new Parcelable.Creator<MyBackStack>() {
#Override
public MyBackStack createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
return new MyBackStack(in);
}
#Override
public MyBackStack[] newArray(int size) {
return new MyBackStack[size];
}
};
}
public final class MyBackStackEntry implements Parcelable {
public final String fname;
public final Fragment.SavedState state;
public final Bundle arguments;
public MyBackStackEntry(String clazz,
Fragment.SavedState state,
Bundle args) {
this.fname = clazz;
this.state = state;
this.arguments = args;
}
public static MyBackStackEntry newEntry(FragmentManager fm, Fragment frg) {
final Fragment.SavedState state = fm.saveFragmentInstanceState(frg);
final String name = frg.getClass().getName();
final Bundle args = frg.getArguments();
return new MyBackStackEntry(name, state, args);
}
public Fragment recreate(Context ctx) {
Fragment frg = Fragment.instantiate(ctx, fname);
frg.setInitialSavedState(state);
frg.setArguments(arguments);
return frg;
}
#Override
public int describeContents() {
return 0;
}
#Override
public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
dest.writeString(fname);
dest.writeBundle(arguments);
if (state == null) {
dest.writeInt(-1);
} else if (state.getClass() == Fragment.SavedState.class) {
dest.writeInt(0);
state.writeToParcel(dest, flags);
} else {
dest.writeInt(1);
dest.writeParcelable(state, flags);
}
}
protected MyBackStackEntry(Parcel in) {
final ClassLoader loader = getClass().getClassLoader();
fname = in.readString();
arguments = in.readBundle(loader);
switch (in.readInt()) {
case -1:
state = null;
break;
case 0:
state = Fragment.SavedState.CREATOR.createFromParcel(in);
break;
case 1:
state = in.readParcelable(loader);
break;
default:
throw new IllegalStateException();
}
}
public static final Parcelable.Creator<MyBackStackEntry> CREATOR =
new Parcelable.Creator<MyBackStackEntry>() {
#Override
public MyBackStackEntry createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
return new MyBackStackEntry(in);
}
#Override
public MyBackStackEntry[] newArray(int size) {
return new MyBackStackEntry[size];
}
};
}
Disclaimer:
I feel this is the best place to post a related solution I have worked on for a similar type of problem that seems to be pretty standard Android stuff. It's not going to solve the problem for everyone, but it may help some.
If the primary difference between your fragments is only the data backing them up (ie, not a lot of big layout differences), then you may not need to actually replace the fragment, but merely swap out the underlying data and refresh the view.
Here's a description of one possible example for this approach:
I have an app that uses ListViews. Each item in the list is a parent with some number of children. When you tap the item, a new list needs to open with those children, within the same ActionBar tab as the original list. These nested lists have a very similar layout (some conditional tweaks here and there perhaps), but the data is different.
This app has several layers of offspring beneath the initial parent list and we may or may not have data from the server by the time a user attempts to access any certain depth beyond the first. Because the list is constructed from a database cursor, and the fragments use a cursor loader and cursor adapter to populate the list view with list items, all that needs to happen when a click is registered is:
1) Create a new adapter with the appropriate 'to' and 'from' fields that will match new item views being added to the list and the columns returned by the new cursor.
2) Set this adapter as the new adapter for the ListView.
3) Build a new URI based on the item that was clicked and restart the cursor loader with the new URI (and projection). In this example, the URI is mapped to specific queries with the selection args passed down from the UI.
4) When the new data has been loaded from the URI, swap the cursor associated with the adapter to the new cursor, and the list will then refresh.
There is no backstack associated with this since we aren't using transactions, so you will have to either build your own, or play the queries in reverse when backing out of the hierarchy. When I tried this, the queries were fast enough that I just perform them again in oNBackPressed() up until I am at the top of hierarchy, at which point the framework takes over the back button again.
If you find yourself in a similar situation, make sure to read the docs:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/listview.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks.html
I hope this helps someone!
I had exactly the same problem and implemented an open source github project that covers stacked tab, back and up navigation and is well tested and documented:
https://github.com/SebastianBaltesObjectCode/PersistentFragmentTabs
This is a simple and small framework for navigation tabs and fragment switching and handling of up and back navigation. Each tab has its own stack of fragments. It uses ActionBarSherlock and is compatible back to API level 8.
This is a complex problem as Android only handles 1 back stack, but this is feasible. It took me days to create a library called Tab Stacker that does exactly what you are looking for: a fragment history for each tab. It is open source and fully documented, and can be included easily with gradle. You can find the library on github: https://github.com/smart-fun/TabStacker
You can also download the sample app to see that the behaviour corresponds to your needs:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/fr.arnaudguyon.tabstackerapp
If you have any question don't hesitate to drop a mail.
I'd like to suggest my own solution in case somebody is looking and want to try and choose the best one for his/her needs.
https://github.com/drusak/tabactivity
The purpose of creating the library is quite banal - implement it like iPhone.
The main advantages:
use android.support.design library with TabLayout;
each tab has its own stack using FragmentManager (without saving fragments' references);
support for deep linking (when you need to open specific tab and specific fragment's level in it);
saving / restoring states of tabs;
adaptive lifecycle methods of fragments in tabs;
quite easy to implement for your needs.
A simple solution:
Every time you change tab/root view call:
fragmentManager.popBackStack(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
It will clear the BackStack. Remember to call this before you change the root fragment.
And add fragments with this:
FragmentTransaction transaction = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
NewsDetailsFragment newsDetailsFragment = NewsDetailsFragment.newInstance(newsId);
transaction.add(R.id.content_frame, newsDetailsFragment).addToBackStack(null).commit();
Note the .addToBackStack(null) and the transaction.add could e.g. be changed with transaction.replace.
This thread was very very interesting and useful.
Thanks Krishnabhadra for your explanation and code, I use your code and improved a bit, allowing to persist the stacks, currentTab, etc... from change configuration (rotating mainly).
Tested on a real 4.0.4 and 2.3.6 devices, not tested on emulator
I change this part of code on "AppMainTabActivity.java", the rest stay the same.
Maybe Krishnabhadra will add this on his code.
Recover data onCreate:
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.app_main_tab_fragment_layout);
/*
* Navigation stacks for each tab gets created..
* tab identifier is used as key to get respective stack for each tab
*/
//if we are recreating this activity...
if (savedInstanceState!=null) {
mStacks = (HashMap<String, Stack<Fragment>>) savedInstanceState.get("stack");
mCurrentTab = savedInstanceState.getString("currentTab");
}
else {
mStacks = new HashMap<String, Stack<Fragment>>();
mStacks.put(AppConstants.TAB_A, new Stack<Fragment>());
mStacks.put(AppConstants.TAB_B, new Stack<Fragment>());
}
mTabHost = (TabHost)findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);
mTabHost.setup();
initializeTabs();
//set the listener the last, to avoid overwrite mCurrentTab everytime we add a new Tab
mTabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(listener);
}
Save the variables and put to Bundle:
//Save variables while recreating
#Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
outState.putSerializable("stack", mStacks);
outState.putString("currentTab", mCurrentTab);
//outState.putInt("tabHost",mTabHost);
}
If exist a previous CurrentTab, set this, else create a new Tab_A:
public void initializeTabs(){
/* Setup your tab icons and content views.. Nothing special in this..*/
TabHost.TabSpec spec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(AppConstants.TAB_A);
spec.setContent(new TabHost.TabContentFactory() {
public View createTabContent(String tag) {
return findViewById(R.id.realtabcontent);
}
});
spec.setIndicator(createTabView(R.drawable.tab_a_state_btn));
mTabHost.addTab(spec);
spec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(AppConstants.TAB_B);
spec.setContent(new TabHost.TabContentFactory() {
public View createTabContent(String tag) {
return findViewById(R.id.realtabcontent);
}
});
spec.setIndicator(createTabView(R.drawable.tab_b_state_btn));
mTabHost.addTab(spec);
//if we have non default Tab as current, change it
if (mCurrentTab!=null) {
mTabHost.setCurrentTabByTag(mCurrentTab);
} else {
mCurrentTab=AppConstants.TAB_A;
pushFragments(AppConstants.TAB_A, new AppTabAFirstFragment(), false,true);
}
}
I hope this helps other people.
I would recommend do not use backstack based on HashMap>
there is lots of bugs in "do not keep activities" mode.
It will not correctly restore the state in case you deeply in fragment's stack.
And also will be crached in nested map fragment (with exeption: Fragment no view found for ID) .
Coz HashMap> after background\foreground app will be null
I optimize code above for work with fragment's backstack
It is bottom TabView
Main activity Class
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Fragment;
import android.app.FragmentManager;
import android.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.Window;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TabHost;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.strikersoft.nida.R;
import com.strikersoft.nida.abstractActivity.BaseActivity;
import com.strikersoft.nida.screens.tags.mapTab.MapContainerFragment;
import com.strikersoft.nida.screens.tags.searchTab.SearchFragment;
import com.strikersoft.nida.screens.tags.settingsTab.SettingsFragment;
public class TagsActivity extends BaseActivity {
public static final String M_CURRENT_TAB = "M_CURRENT_TAB";
private TabHost mTabHost;
private String mCurrentTab;
public static final String TAB_TAGS = "TAB_TAGS";
public static final String TAB_MAP = "TAB_MAP";
public static final String TAB_SETTINGS = "TAB_SETTINGS";
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);
getActionBar().hide();
setContentView(R.layout.tags_activity);
mTabHost = (TabHost) findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);
mTabHost.setup();
if (savedInstanceState != null) {
mCurrentTab = savedInstanceState.getString(M_CURRENT_TAB);
initializeTabs();
mTabHost.setCurrentTabByTag(mCurrentTab);
/*
when resume state it's important to set listener after initializeTabs
*/
mTabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(listener);
} else {
mTabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(listener);
initializeTabs();
}
}
private View createTabView(final int id, final String text) {
View view = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.tabs_icon, null);
ImageView imageView = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.tab_icon);
imageView.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(id));
TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tab_text);
textView.setText(text);
return view;
}
/*
create 3 tabs with name and image
and add it to TabHost
*/
public void initializeTabs() {
TabHost.TabSpec spec;
spec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(TAB_TAGS);
spec.setContent(new TabHost.TabContentFactory() {
public View createTabContent(String tag) {
return findViewById(R.id.realtabcontent);
}
});
spec.setIndicator(createTabView(R.drawable.tab_tag_drawable, getString(R.string.tab_tags)));
mTabHost.addTab(spec);
spec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(TAB_MAP);
spec.setContent(new TabHost.TabContentFactory() {
public View createTabContent(String tag) {
return findViewById(R.id.realtabcontent);
}
});
spec.setIndicator(createTabView(R.drawable.tab_map_drawable, getString(R.string.tab_map)));
mTabHost.addTab(spec);
spec = mTabHost.newTabSpec(TAB_SETTINGS);
spec.setContent(new TabHost.TabContentFactory() {
public View createTabContent(String tag) {
return findViewById(R.id.realtabcontent);
}
});
spec.setIndicator(createTabView(R.drawable.tab_settings_drawable, getString(R.string.tab_settings)));
mTabHost.addTab(spec);
}
/*
first time listener will be trigered immediatelly after first: mTabHost.addTab(spec);
for set correct Tab in setmTabHost.setCurrentTabByTag ignore first call of listener
*/
TabHost.OnTabChangeListener listener = new TabHost.OnTabChangeListener() {
public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
mCurrentTab = tabId;
if (tabId.equals(TAB_TAGS)) {
pushFragments(SearchFragment.getInstance(), false,
false, null);
} else if (tabId.equals(TAB_MAP)) {
pushFragments(MapContainerFragment.getInstance(), false,
false, null);
} else if (tabId.equals(TAB_SETTINGS)) {
pushFragments(SettingsFragment.getInstance(), false,
false, null);
}
}
};
/*
Example of starting nested fragment from another fragment:
Fragment newFragment = ManagerTagFragment.newInstance(tag.getMac());
TagsActivity tAct = (TagsActivity)getActivity();
tAct.pushFragments(newFragment, true, true, null);
*/
public void pushFragments(Fragment fragment,
boolean shouldAnimate, boolean shouldAdd, String tag) {
FragmentManager manager = getFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction();
if (shouldAnimate) {
ft.setCustomAnimations(R.animator.fragment_slide_left_enter,
R.animator.fragment_slide_left_exit,
R.animator.fragment_slide_right_enter,
R.animator.fragment_slide_right_exit);
}
ft.replace(R.id.realtabcontent, fragment, tag);
if (shouldAdd) {
/*
here you can create named backstack for realize another logic.
ft.addToBackStack("name of your backstack");
*/
ft.addToBackStack(null);
} else {
/*
and remove named backstack:
manager.popBackStack("name of your backstack", FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
or remove whole:
manager.popBackStack(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
*/
manager.popBackStack(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
}
ft.commit();
}
/*
If you want to start this activity from another
*/
public static void startUrself(Activity context) {
Intent newActivity = new Intent(context, TagsActivity.class);
newActivity.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
context.startActivity(newActivity);
context.finish();
}
#Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
outState.putString(M_CURRENT_TAB, mCurrentTab);
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
}
#Override
public void onBackPressed(){
super.onBackPressed();
}
}
tags_activity.xml
<
?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0"/>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+android:id/realtabcontent"
android:background="#drawable/bg_main_app_gradient"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:background="#EAE7E1"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"/>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>
tags_icon.xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/tabsLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/bg_tab_gradient"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:ignore="contentDescription" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/tab_icon"
android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tab_text"
android:layout_marginBottom="3dp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#color/tab_text_color"/>
</LinearLayout>

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