getSupportFragmentManager() method is undefined for type MapFragment

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I'm trying to implement Google Map display and below are my codes:

package com.fragments;

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

import com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMap;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment;

public class MapFragment extends SherlockMapFragment {

    private GoogleMap mMap;

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View root = super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);
        SupportMapFragment mapFrag= (SupportMapFragment)getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_map);
        mMap = mapFrag.getMap();
        return root;
    }
}

Im getting an error that getSupportFragmentManager() is undefined for type MapFragment. However I'm a little confused as I have imported com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment. shouldn't this method come from there then? Am I missing out some steps in getting this method to work?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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If you are using this SherlockMapFragment, try:

getSherlockActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Jan 26 '13 at 17:59

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Thank you! This worked! Though I'm abit confused why I have to get the SherlockActivity though. But anyway now I'm getting another problem on nullpointer exception... [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14539929/supportmapfragment-or-googlemap-is-null) – lyk Jan 26 '13 at 18:09
Because SherlockMapFragment is not a SherlockFragment, it's a SupportMapFragment (not part of ABS) that should be attached to a FragmentActivity... So it behaves differently. – Sam Jan 26 '13 at 18:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '13 at 07:08

Dude, I spent last couple of hours reading this and other 2 of your questions (among others) because I was having exactly same issue. I had an app working ABS+GMapsV2.0+FragmentActivity, but since I hear a lot that it's a good practice to have it all in fragments, I started porting it to fragments and FragmentActivities as containers.

When I ported the map, happened exactly the same, getSupportFragmentManager() was not recognized, and I did not like quite much the proposed solution creating the SherlockMapFragment messing up the ABS library, so I kept digging.

Most likely you knew already at this point, but I just realize you (as well as me 10 minutes ago) were trying to handle a fragment that is defined in xml but is not created (indexed) yet.

Taking a look at documentation checking the order of calls in fragment methods, I tried the code in other method after onCreateView()... and changing getSupportFragmentManager() for getFragmentManager() or even following the solution given using getSherlockActivity().getSupportFragmentManager() I could handle those fragments which already exist.

public class MapsFragment extends SherlockFragment {


private SupportMapFragment mSupportMapFragment;
private GoogleMap map;
private Marker spotAMarker;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    return inflater.inflate(R.layout.maps_fragment, container, false);
}

@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    mSupportMapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map_fragment_test); //THIS ONE
    mSupportMapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getSherlockActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map_fragment_test); //OR THIS ONE
    if(mSupportMapFragment != null) {
        map = mSupportMapFragment.getMap(); 

        if(map != null) {

            spotAMarker = map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(new LatLng(4.651904,-74.057352)).
                    title(getString(R.string.spot_a_title)).snippet(getString(R.string.spot_a_subtitle)).
                    icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.fromAsset("images/spot_a.png")));
            spotAMarker.setDraggable(true);

        } else {
            Toast.makeText(this.getActivity(), getString(R.string.no_map_error), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }

    } else {
        Toast.makeText(this.getActivity(), "No Map Fragment", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
}
}

May be you got already the workaround for the issue, but I wanted to share my experience with other stucked in same issue.

Is there any chance you have more information on this? Like what the XML looks like? Is this the only code you need to get it to work in a SherlockFragment? Not a lot out there for SherlockFragment and GoogleMaps. — RED_, Dec 05 '13 at 13:01

getSupportFragmentManager() method is undefined for type MapFragment

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