Fragment declared target fragment that does not belong to this FragmentManager

Question

I have made an activity A which has a fragment X in it. In fragment X, EditText item has on click event which opens fragment Y. This fragment displays a list of names. I pre

Answer 1

To use setTargetFragment(), both the new Fragment and the target Fragment must be hosted within the same FragmentManager. The most common case where this would not happen is if you are using Activity.getSupportFragmentManager() or Fragment.getFragmentManager() alongside Fragment.getChildFragmentManager().

Answer 2

To new users where the "getFragmentManager" only work for it but don't want use deprecated method, the method "getParentFragmentManager" work too.

Answer 3

In my solution, replace

getChildFragmentManager()

with

Activity.getSupportFragmentManager() or Fragment.getFragmentManager()

that worked for me. Thank Mr.Ben P