I have a class that is handling a database in my Android app. When the database changes, I'd like to update the fragment displaying the information from the frogment. My approach has been to give the fragment a tag and then find the fragment with the following code:
FragmentManager manager = getFragmentManager();
Fragment fragment = manager.findFragmentByTag("Schedule");
if (fragment instanceof ScheduleFragment){
ScheduleFragment fr = (ScheduleFragment)fragment;
fr.scheduleUpdated();
}
However, as long as my database class is not an extension of Fragment, the compiler refuses to recognise getFragmentManager()
. To me it makes no sense to extend Fragment, as the database class is no fragment, but a simple helper class to manage the database. Is it possible to get a reference to my fragment without extending Fragment? Or is this bad practice and should be done in another way?
Also, is it possible to get a reference to the fragment from a static method?