Building Flexible Android Apps with the Fragments API with Java

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Configure Android Studio for this course
• The fragmented market of Android devices
• Adapting to screen sizes and densities
• Understanding fragments
• Create an app with a fragment

2. Display Fragments in Activities

• Create a fragment class and layout
• Display a fragment with XML
• Explore the FragmentTransaction class
• Add a fragment with Java
• Remove a fragment with Java
• The lifecycle of a fragment
• Trace lifecycle events with LogCat

3. Manage Fragments at Runtime

• Pass arguments to a fragment
• Manage arguments with a factory method
• Measure screen with Java
• Detect screen with resource selectors
• Choose layout at runtime

4. Communication between Fragments and Activities

• Java interfaces and callback methods
• Define interface with callback methods
• Send a message from a fragment
• Send parcelable objects to a fragment
• Display data lists in fragments

5. Display Dialogs with Fragments

• Wrap an alert dialog in a fragment
• Display a custom dialog
• Pass arguments to the dialog
• Use callback methods in a dialog

6. Other Uses of Fragments

• Create a fragment for ViewPager
• Create a ViewPager adapter
• Manage back button with ViewPager
• Manage shared preferences with fragments

Conclusion

• Next steps