Dilemma: when to use Fragments vs Activities:

Question

I know that Activities are designed to represent a single screen of my application, while Fragments are designed to be reusable UI layouts with log

Answer 1

Why I prefer Fragment over Activity in ALL CASES.

• Activity is expensive. In Fragment, views and property states are separated - whenever a fragment is in backstack, its views will be destroyed. So you can stack much more Fragments than Activity.

• Backstack manipulation. With FragmentManager, it's easy to clear all the Fragments, insert more than on Fragments and etcs. But for Activity, it will be a nightmare to manipulate those stuff.

• A much predictable lifecycle. As long as the host Activity is not recycled. the Fragments in the backstack will not be recycled. So it's possible to use FragmentManager::getFragments() to find specific Fragment (not encouraged).