Day56 of #100DaysOfCode

#CodeTogether Day 56/100

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Today I will be continuing the same pathway in which I will build the Dessert Clicker app.

Unit 3: Navigation

Pathway 2: Introduction to the Navigation component

Source: https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-kotlin/course

Fragments and the Navigation Component

We will start by downloading the repo from the given link in the course and setting it up in Android Studio.

A fragment is simply a reusable piece of our app’s user interface. The fragment's lifecycle state will be as follows:

• INITIALIZED: A new instance of the fragment has been instantiated.
• CREATED: The first fragment lifecycle methods are called. During this state, the view associated with the fragment is also created.
• STARTED: The fragment is visible onscreen but does not have “focus”, meaning it can’t respond to user input.
• RESUMED: The fragment is visible and has focus.
• DESTROYED: The fragment object has been de-instantiated.

Similar to activities, the Fragment class provides many methods that we can override to respond to lifecycle events.

• onCreate(): The fragment has been instantiated and is in the CREATED state. However, its corresponding view has not been created yet.
• onCreateView(): This method is where we inflate the layout. The fragment has entered the CREATED state.
• onViewCreated(): This is called after the view is created. In this method, we would typically bind specific views to properties by calling findViewById().
• onStart(): The fragment has entered the STARTED state.
• onResume(): The fragment has entered the RESUMED state and now has focus (can respond to user input).
• onPause(): The fragment has re-entered the STARTED state. The UI is visible to the user
• onStop(): The fragment has re-entered the CREATED state. The object is instantiated but is no longer presented on screen.
• onDestroyView(): Called right before the fragment enters the DESTROYED state. The view has already been removed from memory, but the fragment object still exists.
• onDestroy(): The fragment enters the DESTROYED state.

The lifecycle states and callback methods are quite similar to those used for activities. However, the difference with the onCreate() method. With activities, we would use this method to inflate the layout and bind views. However, the fragment lifecycle onCreate() is called before the view is created, so we can't inflate the layout here. Instead, we do this in onCreateView(). Then, after the view has been created, the onViewCreated() method is called, where we can then bind properties to specific views.

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