Listening for activity button clicks from inside a fragment

Question

I've just started learning about fragments and I have an activity which is 1000+ lines of code that I've converted to a fragment.

I'm wondering if there is any easy way to allow my fragment to listen to buttons that reside in the XML of it's parent activity. I tried just adding a regular listener in the fragment's onCreateView with the ID of the buttons but it's (expectedly) giving me a null pointer exception.

I do know of the OnSearchClickListener method of doing this but it would probably take a good many hours of manual refactoring to achieve what I need (at least from what I can tell about its usage, I'd be happy to be wrong), so I was wondering if anyone knows of any other method to get this done in a non-repetitive way.

implement interface for the communication between activity and fragments. Refer: http://simpledeveloper.com/how-to-communicate-between-fragments-and-activities/ — nnn, Feb 23 '17 at 10:22
You can achieve this using an Interface. Make your Fragment implement the interface and overide the interface method to perform your desired function. — Bhargav, Feb 23 '17 at 10:27

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 23 '17 at 11:12

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You can try to get a reference of view in activity this way:

View view = getActivity().findViewById(R.id.view_in_activity);

Then add listener:

view.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    void onClick(View v) {
        // Perform some action
    }
})

edited Feb 23 '17 at 11:12

azizbekian

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answered Feb 23 '17 at 10:18

Emre Aktürk

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This is the correct answer to my question, although I learned about other forms of activity-fragment communication (interfaces) from the other answers (thank you all). – Zuhayr Feb 23 '17 at 11:44
How to acheive that on Xamarin? – Daniel Reyhanian Apr 27 '19 at 12:25

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 23 '17 at 11:41

In Fragment make like this..

public class Myfragment extends Fragment {

    public interface Callback {
        public void onButtonClicked(View radiobtn);
    }

    private Callback callback;

    @Override
    public void onAttach(Activity ac) {
        super.onAttach(ac);
        callback = (Callback) ac;
    }

    @Override
    public void onDetach() {
        callback = null;
        super.onDetach();
    }

    radiobtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View view) {
            if (callback != null) {
                callback.onButtonClicked(view);
            }
        }
    });
}

In Activity do like this...

public class Myfragment extends Activity implements MyFragment.Callback{

    public void onButtonClicked(View btn) {
        // The radiobutton in MyFragment has been clicked
        myButton.setEnabled(true); // or something like this.
    }
}

its question for get click from activity to fragment Not fragment to Activity — , Mar 21 '22 at 12:01

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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Define an interface called like ClickListenerOnActivity contains a method named onClickInActivity(View v) and implement that in fragment. When click the button in activity call this method of the interface.

You can view this example to see how to implement an interface.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Feb 23 '17 at 10:32

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 23 '17 at 10:33

Despite Emre Akturk's answer isn't wrong, but it is not the best practice, hence you may attach your Fragment to another Activity and after that, that Activity may not have that View. So, the best way is using an interface. Make your Fragment implements your desired interface and then in onClickListener of your Button, call the interface of that Fragment.

Listening for activity button clicks from inside a fragment

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