Passing an Object from an Activity to a Fragment

You should create a method within your fragment that accepts the type of object you wish to pass into it. In this case i named it "setObject" (creative huh? :) ) That method can then perform whatever action you need with that object.

MyFragment fragment;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        if (getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(android.R.id.content) == null) {
            fragment = new MyFragment();
            getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(android.R.id.content, detailsFragment)
                    .commit();
        } else {
           fragment = (MyFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(
                    android.R.id.content);
        }


        fragment.setObject(yourObject); //create a method like this in your class "MyFragment"
}

Note that i'm using the support library and calls to getSupportFragmentManager() might be just getFragmentManager() for you depending on what you're working with


Create a static method in the Fragment and then get it using getArguments().

Example:

public class CommentsFragment extends Fragment {
  private static final String DESCRIBABLE_KEY = "describable_key";
  private Describable mDescribable;

  public static CommentsFragment newInstance(Describable describable) {
    CommentsFragment fragment = new CommentsFragment();
    Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
    bundle.putSerializable(DESCRIBABLE_KEY, describable);
    fragment.setArguments(bundle);

    return fragment;
  }

  @Override
  public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater,
      ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    mDescribable = (Describable) getArguments().getSerializable(
        DESCRIBABLE_KEY);

    // The rest of your code
}

You can afterwards call it from the Activity doing something like:

FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
Fragment fragment = CommentsFragment.newInstance(mDescribable);
ft.replace(R.id.comments_fragment, fragment);
ft.commit();

In your activity class:

public class BasicActivity extends Activity {

private ComplexObject co;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main_page);

    co=new ComplexObject();
    getIntent().putExtra("complexObject", co);

    FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
    Fragment1 f1 = new Fragment1();
    fragmentManager.beginTransaction()
            .replace(R.id.frameLayout, f1).commit();

}

Note: Your object should implement Serializable interface

Then in your fragment :

public class Fragment1 extends Fragment {

ComplexObject co;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    Intent i = getActivity().getIntent();

    co = (ComplexObject) i.getSerializableExtra("complexObject");

    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.test_page, container, false);
    TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.DENEME);
    textView.setText(co.getName());

    return view;
}
}

Tags:

Android