Question

I’m converting some of my project to use fragments. How do we communicate with a fragment dialog? I want to create a fragment dialog just to get some text input from the user. When the dialog is dismissed, I’d like to pass the entered text back to the “parent” fragment (the one that started it). Example:

public class MyFragment extends Fragment {

    public void onBtnClick() {
        // What's a good way to get data back from this dialog 
        // once it's dismissed?
        DialogFragment dlgFrag = MyFragmentDialog.newInstance();
        dlgFrag.show(getFragmentManager(), "dialog"); 
    }
}

Thanks

Answer 1

A great way to pass this kind of Events is a Callback Interface like descripted in the Android Developers Guide

Your Fragment define a Callback Interface like

public class MyFragment extends Fragment {
    ...
    // Container Activity must implement this interface
    public interface OnArticleSelectedListener {
        public void onArticleSelected(Uri articleUri);
    }
    ...
}

Then you check inside your onAttach Method if the Parent implemented the Callback Interface and save the Instance.

@Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
    super.onAttach(activity);
    try {
        mListener = (OnArticleSelectedListener) activity;
    } catch (ClassCastException e) {
        throw new ClassCastException(activity.toString() + " must implement OnArticleSelectedListener");
    }
}

when your Event inside the Fragment happens you simply call the Callback Handler

mListener.onArticleSelected(...);

Hope that helps, further infos here