Question

I have one activity – MainActivity. Within this activity I have two fragments, both of which I created declaratively within the xml.

I am trying to pass the String of text input by the user into Fragment A to the text view in Fragment B. However, this is proving to be very difficult. Does anyone know how I might achieve this?

I am aware that a fragment can get a reference to it’s activity using getActivity(). So I’m guessing I would start there?

Answer 1

Have a look at the Android developers page:
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/fragments/communicating.html#DefineInterface

Basically, you define an interface in your Fragment A, and let your Activity implement that Interface. Now you can call the interface method in your Fragment, and your Activity will receive the event. Now in your activity, you can call your second Fragment to update the textview with the received value

Your Activity implements your interface (See FragmentA below)

public class YourActivity implements FragmentA.TextClicked{
    @Override
    public void sendText(String text){
        // Get Fragment B
        FraB frag = (FragB)
            getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_b);
        frag.updateText(text);
    }
}

Fragment A defines an Interface, and calls the method when needed

public class FragA extends Fragment{

    TextClicked mCallback;

    public interface TextClicked{
        public void sendText(String text);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
        super.onAttach(activity);

        // This makes sure that the container activity has implemented
        // the callback interface. If not, it throws an exception
        try {
            mCallback = (TextClicked) activity;
        } catch (ClassCastException e) {
            throw new ClassCastException(activity.toString()
                + " must implement TextClicked");
        }
    }

    public void someMethod(){
        mCallback.sendText("YOUR TEXT");
    }

    @Override
    public void onDetach() {
        mCallback = null; // => avoid leaking, thanks @Deepscorn
        super.onDetach();
    }
}

Fragment B has a public method to do something with the text

public class FragB extends Fragment{

    public void updateText(String text){
        // Here you have it
    }
}