Android - Single Fragments

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Single Frame Fragment

Single frame fragment is designed for small screen devices such as hand hold devices(mobiles) and it should be above android 3.0 version.

Example

This example will explain you how to create your own Fragments. Here we will create two fragments and one of them will be used when device is in landscape mode and another fragment will be used in case of portrait mode. So let's follow the following steps to similar to what we followed while creating Hello World Example −

Following is the content of the modified main activity file MainActivity.java −

package com.example.myfragments;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.FragmentManager;
import android.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

   /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      Configuration config = getResources().getConfiguration();

      FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
      FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();

      /**
         * Check the device orientation and act accordingly
      */
		
      if (config.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
         /**
            * Landscape mode of the device
         */
         LM_Fragement ls_fragment = new LM_Fragement();
         fragmentTransaction.replace(android.R.id.content, ls_fragment);
      }else{
         /**
            * Portrait mode of the device
         */
         PM_Fragement pm_fragment = new PM_Fragement();
         fragmentTransaction.replace(android.R.id.content, pm_fragment);
      }
      fragmentTransaction.commit();
   }

}

Create two fragment files LM_Fragement.java and PM_Fragment.java

Following is the content of LM_Fragement.java file −

package com.example.myfragments;

import android.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

/**
   * Created by TutorialsPoint7 on 8/23/2016.
*/

public class LM_Fragement extends Fragment {
   @Override
   public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      /**
         * Inflate the layout for this fragment
      */
      return inflater.inflate(R.layout.lm_fragment, container, false);
   }
}

Following is the content of PM_Fragement.java file −

package com.example.myfragments;

import android.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

/**
   * Created by TutorialsPoint7 on 8/23/2016.
*/

public class PM_Fragement extends Fragment {
   @Override
   public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      /**
         * Inflate the layout for this fragment
      */
      return inflater.inflate(R.layout.pm_fragment, container, false);
   }
}

Create two layout files lm_fragement.xml and pm_fragment.xml under res/layout directory.

Following is the content of lm_fragement.xml file −

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <LinearLayout
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:orientation="vertical"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:background="#7bae16">
   
   <TextView
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:text="@string/landscape_message"
      android:textColor="#000000"
      android:textSize="20px" />

<!-- More GUI components go here  -->

</LinearLayout>

Following is the content of pm_fragment.xml file −

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:orientation="horizontal"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="fill_parent"
   android:background="#666666">
   
   <TextView
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:text="@string/portrait_message"
      android:textColor="#000000"
      android:textSize="20px" />

<!-- More GUI components go here  -->

</LinearLayout>

Following will be the content of res/layout/activity_main.xml file which includes your fragments −

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="fill_parent"
   android:orientation="horizontal">

   <fragment
      android:name="com.example.fragments"
      android:id="@+id/lm_fragment"
      android:layout_weight="1"
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="match_parent" />
   
   <fragment
      android:name="com.example.fragments"
      android:id="@+id/pm_fragment"
      android:layout_weight="2"
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</LinearLayout>

Make sure you have following content of res/values/strings.xml file −

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
   <string name="app_name">My Application</string>
   <string name="landscape_message">This is Landscape mode fragment</string>
   <string name="portrait_message">This is Portrait mode fragment></string>
</resources>

Let's try to run our modified MyFragments application we just created. I assume you had created your AVD while doing environment set-up. To run the app from Android Studio, open one of your project's activity files and click Run icon from the tool bar. Android Studio installs the app on your AVD and starts it and if everything is fine with your set-up and application, it will display Emulator window where you will click on Menu button to see the following window. Be patience because it may take sometime based on your computer speed −

To change the mode of the emulator screen, let's do the following −

• fn+control+F11 on Mac to change the landscape to portrait and vice versa.

• ctrl+F11 on Windows.

• ctrl+F11 on Linux.

Once you changed the mode, you will be able to see the GUI which you have implemented for landscape mode as below −

This way you can use same activity but different GUI's through different fragments. You can use different type of GUI components for different GUI's based on your requirements.