What is the benefit of using Fragments in Android, rather than Views?

Question

When developing for Android, you can set your target (or minimum) sdk to 4 (API 1.6) and add the android compatibility package (v4) to add support for Fra

Answer 1

Add one case when using Fragment or Activity over CustomView:

When you are using CursorLoader to observe certain views, ListView or TextView and want to update their display value whenever your ContentProvider's data updates at back end(most common case you have a service which updates your local database by polling data from remote database/cloud periodically)