Call an activity method from a fragment

Question

Trying to call a method in my activity from a fragment. I want the fragment to give the method data and to get the data when the method return. I want to achieve similar to

Answer 1

Update after I understand more how fragments work. Each fragment belongs to a parent activity. So just use:

getActivity().whatever

From within the fragment. It is a better answer because you avoid superflous casts. If you cannot avoid the casts with this solution use the one below.

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what you have to do is to cast to the outer activity

((MainActivity) getActivity()).Method();

creating a new instance will be confusing the android frame and it will not be able to recognize it. see also :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12014834/1984636

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2042829/1984636