Handling orientation changes with Fragments

Question

I\'m currently testing my app with a multipane Fragment-ised view using the HC compatibility package, and having a lot of difficultly handling orientation chang

Answer 1

Probably not the ideal answer but if you have contentFrame for portrait and in your activity only load up the menuFrame when the savedInstanceState is null then your content frame fragments will be shown on an orientation change.

Not ideal though as then if you hit the back button (as many times as necessary) then you'll never see the menu fragment as it wasn't loaded into contentFrame.

It is a shame that the FragmentLayout API demos doesn't preserve the right fragment state across an orientation change. Regardless, having thought about this problem a fair bit, and tried out various things, I'm not sure that there is a straightforward answer. The best answer that I have come up with so far (not tested) is to have the same layout in portrait and landscape but hide the menuFrame when there is something in the detailsFrame. Similarly show it, and hide frameLayout when the latter is empty.