Communication between Fragments in ViewPager
Solution 1:
- You could use Intents (register broadcast receiver in fragment B and send broadcasts from fragment A.
- Use EventBus: https://github.com/greenrobot/EventBus. It's my favorite approach. Very convinient to use, easy communications between any components (Activity & Services, for example).
Steps to do:
First, create some class to represent event when your text changes:
public class TextChangedEvent {
public String newText;
public TextChangedEvent(String newText) {
this.newText = newText;
}
}
Then, in fragment A:
//when text changes
EventBus bus = EventBus.getDefault();
bus.post(new TextChangedEvent(newText));
in fragment B:
EventBus bus = EventBus.getDefault();
//Register to EventBus
@Override
public void onCreate(SavedInstanceState savedState) {
bus.register(this);
}
//catch Event from fragment A
public void onEvent(TextChangedEvent event) {
yourTextView.setText(event.newText);
}
Solution 2:
Fragments have access to there parent Activity.
Therefore the simplest approach is to register a callback in the parent Activity.
Update: Submit cache added to MainActivity.
public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity {
private OnButtonClicked mOnButtonClicked;
private String mSubmitCache;
public interface OnButtonClicked {
void submit(final String s);
}
public void setOnButtonClicked(final OnButtonClicked c) {
mOnButtonClicked = c;
// deliver cached string, if any
if (TextUtils.isEmpty(mSubmitCache) == false) {
c.submit(mSubmitCache);
}
}
public void buttonClicked(final String s) {
if (mOnButtonClicked == null) {
// if FragmentB doesn't exist jet, cache value
mSubmitCache = s;
return;
}
mOnButtonClicked.submit(s);
}
}
public class FragmentA extends Fragment implements OnClickListener {
private MainActivity mMain;
private Button mButton;
@Override public onAttach(Activity a) {
mMain = (MainActivity) a;
}
@Override public void onClick(View v) {
mMain.buttonClicked("send this to FragmentB.");
}
}
public class FragmentB extends Fragment implements MainActivity.OnButtonClicked {
private MainActivity mMain;
private TextView mTextView;
// Called when the fragment's activity has been created
// and this fragment's view hierarchy instantiated
@Override public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedState) {
mMain = (MainActivity) getActivity();
mMain.setOnButtonClicked(this);
}
@Override void submit(final String s) {
mTextView.setText(s);
}
}