#3 Generating Fragments With Android Studio Today we will just be working with a basic fragment. You can even use multiple fragments within the same activity and rearrange them when the user rotates their device.Īndroid Studio can generate fragments in a couple flavors: List Fragments which show data items in list or grid form and "basic" fragments which usually control a single layout. In Android, a Fragment is a class which represents a " behavior or portion of user interface within an Activity." Fragments were introduced to help produce UI which can adapt to various device orientations as well as function seamlessly across phones and tablets. However, since we are learning about using fragments we are going to create and modify our own custom fragment. The MainActivity and fragment generated by Android StudioĪs you can see, Android Studio will automatically generate a starting Fragment for you. click "Next" a couple times until you get to this screen below. Having done that, the support options will now disappear. I'm just going to leave them blank for now and manually bump the API level up to Honeycomb as below:Ĭhanging the application API level in Android Studio. If you plan on using fragments in combination with Pre-Honeycomb devices you will need to use these to ensure backward compatibility with fragments. Name your app "FragmentExample."īefore we go too far, I wanted to point out the " Support Mode" options near the bottom of the new project wizard. Open Android Studio and click "File -> New Project." You should see the new project wizard open up. We will also cover how to add a button to the fragment which sends an action to the fragment’s parent Activity, displaying a Toast notification. TL DR - This guide will help you to create and use a simple Fragment in Android Studio. Rex is an internet of things developer evangelist at Intel’s Mashery.
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