android - Start a fragment via Intent within a Fragment

Question

I want to launch a new fragment to view some data. Currently, I have a main activity that has a bunch of actionbar tabs, each of which is a fragment. So, within a tab fragment, I have a button, chartsButton. I have my onclicklistener all set for it, and here's the onClick method:

public OnClickListener chartsListener = new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Intent chartFragment = new Intent();
        startActivity(chartFragment);   
    }
};

Now, as I said, this listener is within a class that extends Fragment. So, I want to launch a new fragment (chartsFragment) via the intent to replace the whole screen. When the user clicks back, it'll bring them back to the tabs and main activity. Here's my chart fragment:

public class chartsFragment extends Fragment {

    public View onCreateView() {
        //LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        return (inflater.inflate(R.layout.chartfragment, null));
    }
}

The current error I am dealing with: "android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { }". That's fine, I understand that I could use getActivity().startActivity(chartsFragment), but that results in the same error. I suppose what I am looking for here, is how do I launch an intent from within a fragment that results in opening a new fragment?

Answer 1

The answer to your problem is easy: replace the current Fragment with the new Fragment and push transaction onto the backstack. This preserves back button behaviour...

Creating a new Activity really defeats the whole purpose to use fragments anyway...very counter productive.

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
    // Create new fragment and transaction
    Fragment newFragment = new chartsFragment(); 
    // consider using Java coding conventions (upper first char class names!!!)
    FragmentTransaction transaction = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();

    // Replace whatever is in the fragment_container view with this fragment,
    // and add the transaction to the back stack
    transaction.replace(R.id.fragment_container, newFragment);
    transaction.addToBackStack(null);

    // Commit the transaction
    transaction.commit(); 
}

http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html#Transactions