Question

In my application i want user to fill in a large form (5-10 fields). Not all the fields are EditTexts, some are Spinners, RadioButtons etc.,

So instead of have them all in a single layout(user may leave the screen, seeing so many questions). I thought of having it as a Conversational/ questioner like thing.

On submitting each answer eventually shows a new question.

Instead of having separate Activity for each question, better i change the ContentView of the same Activity.

Solutions like:

1. Make View’s Visibility Visible/Gone depending on the question to be asked

2. Change the ContentView and all onCreate().

are inefficient when i have to change the ContentViews or Visibilities 10 times.

Should i use a Fragment in the Layout and replace it with new Fragment?

Even that way i end up having 10 Fragment classes and 10 layouts 1 each for th Fragment Classes.

Is there any other way to implement this. Right now i am doing it using Fragments.

Thank You

Answer 1

I believe, Fragments would be the best choice here, since either ways (i.e. either dynamicaly or creating layout files) you have to write it 10 times.

So better would be Fragments, since, each layout will get replaced with the previous layout dynamically.

But you also have to consider one situation here,that is, if in future, you have to add new questions in your form, then you will have to do a lot of modifications in the code, otherwise, this is the best place to use Fragments.