How to pass data between fragments

Im trying to pass data between two fragmens in my program. Its just a simple string that is stored in the List. The List is made public in fragments A, and when the user clicks on a list item, I need it to show up in fragment B. The content provider only seems to support ID's, so that will not work. Any suggestions?

Solution 1:

Why don't you use a Bundle. From your first fragment, here's how to set it up:

Fragment fragment = new Fragment();
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putInt(key, value);
fragment.setArguments(bundle);

Then in your second Fragment, retrieve the data using:

Bundle bundle = this.getArguments();
int myInt = bundle.getInt(key, defaultValue);

Bundle has put methods for lots of data types. Please see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Bundle.html

Solution 2:

If you use Roboguice you can use the EventManager in Roboguice to pass data around without using the Activity as an interface. This is quite clean IMO.

If you're not using Roboguice you can use Otto too as a event bus: http://square.github.com/otto/

Update 20150909: You can also use Green Robot Event Bus or even RxJava now too. Depends on your use case.

Solution 3:

From the Fragment documentation:

Often you will want one Fragment to communicate with another, for example to change the content based on a user event. All Fragment-to-Fragment communication is done through the associated Activity. Two Fragments should never communicate directly.

So I suggest you have look on the basic fragment training docs in the documentation. They're pretty comprehensive with an example and a walk-through guide.

Solution 4:

So lets say you have Activity AB that controls Frag A and Fragment B. Inside Fragment A you need an interface that Activity AB can implement. In the sample android code, they have:

private Callbacks mCallbacks = sDummyCallbacks;

/*A callback interface that all activities containing this fragment must implement. This mechanism allows activities to be notified of item selections. */

public interface Callbacks {
/*Callback for when an item has been selected. */    
      public void onItemSelected(String id);
}

/*A dummy implementation of the {@link Callbacks} interface that does nothing. Used only when this fragment is not attached to an activity. */    
private static Callbacks sDummyCallbacks = new Callbacks() {
    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(String id) {
    }
};

The Callback interface is put inside one of your Fragments (let’s say Fragment A). I think the purpose of this Callbacks interface is like a nested class inside Frag A which any Activity can implement. So if Fragment A was a TV, the CallBacks is the TV Remote (interface) that allows Fragment A to be used by Activity AB. I may be wrong about the detail because I'm a noob but I did get my program to work perfectly on all screen sizes and this is what I used.

So inside Fragment A, we have: (I took this from Android’s Sample programs)

@Override
public void onListItemClick(ListView listView, View view, int position, long id) {
super.onListItemClick(listView, view, position, id);
// Notify the active callbacks interface (the activity, if the
// fragment is attached to one) that an item has been selected.
mCallbacks.onItemSelected(DummyContent.ITEMS.get(position).id);
//mCallbacks.onItemSelected( PUT YOUR SHIT HERE. int, String, etc.);
//mCallbacks.onItemSelected (Object);
}

And inside Activity AB we override the onItemSelected method:

public class AB extends FragmentActivity implements ItemListFragment.Callbacks {
//...
@Override
//public void onItemSelected (CATCH YOUR SHIT HERE) {
//public void onItemSelected (Object obj) {
    public void onItemSelected(String id) {
    //Pass Data to Fragment B. For example:
    Bundle arguments = new Bundle();
    arguments.putString(“FragmentB_package”, id);
    FragmentB fragment = new FragmentB();
    fragment.setArguments(arguments);
    getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.item_detail_container, fragment).commit();
    }

So inside Activity AB, you basically throwing everything into a Bundle and passing it to B. If u are not sure how to use a Bundle, look the class up.

I am basically going by the sample code that Android provided. The one with the DummyContent stuff. When you make a new Android Application Package, it's the one titled MasterDetailFlow.