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
For accessing a function declared in your Activity via your fragment please use an interface, as shown in the answer by marco.
For accessing a function declared in your Fragment via your activity you can use this if you don't have a tag or an id
private void setupViewPager(ViewPager viewPager) {
//fragmentOne,fragmentTwo and fragmentThree are all global variables
fragmentOne= new FragmentOne();
fragmentTwo= new FragmentTwo();
fragmentThree = new FragmentThree();
viewPagerAdapteradapter = new ViewPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
viewPagerAdapteradapter.addFragment(fragmentOne, "Frag1");
viewPagerAdapteradapter.addFragment(fragmentTwo, "Frag2");
viewPagerAdapteradapter.addFragment(fragmentThree, "Frag3");
//viewPager has to be instantiated when you create the activity:
//ViewPager viewPager = (ViewPager)findViewById(R.id.pager);
//setupViewPager(viewPager);
//Where R.id.pager is the id of the viewPager defined in your activity's xml page.
viewPager.setAdapter(viewPagerAdapteradapter);
//frag1 and frag2 are also global variables
frag1 = (FragmentOne)viewPagerAdapteradapter.mFragmentList.get(0);
frag2 = (FragmentTwo)viewPagerAdapteradapter.mFragmentList.get(1);;
//You can use the variable fragmentOne or frag1 to access functions declared in FragmentOne
}
This is the ViewpagerAdapterClass
class ViewPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
public final List mFragmentList = new ArrayList<>();
private final List mFragmentTitleList = new ArrayList<>();
public ViewPagerAdapter(FragmentManager manager) {
super(manager);
}
@Override
public Fragment getItem(int position) {
return mFragmentList.get(position);
}
@Override
public int getCount() {
return mFragmentList.size();
}
public void addFragment(Fragment fragment, String title) {
mFragmentList.add(fragment);
mFragmentTitleList.add(title);
}
@Override
public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
return mFragmentTitleList.get(position);
}
}
This answer is for noobs like me. Have a good day.