Quick Answer: Why Fragments Are Used in Android?
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According to the Android documentation, a fragment is a part of applications user interface that is bound to an activity. Fragments have their lifecycle and layouts or UI components. Fragments help enrich your UI design, pass data between different screens, and adapt to different device configurations.

What are fragments how it is useful?

A Fragment represents a reusable portion of your app’s UI. A fragment defines and manages its own layout, has its own lifecycle, and can handle its own input events. Fragments cannot live on their own–they must be hosted by an activity or another fragment.

When you can use fragments in your Android application?

Developers can combine one or more fragments to build a single activity or even reuse fragments across multiple activities. Fragments were introduced in Android 3.0 to improve the user experience. Classically, developers would have to build a new Activity whenever the user interacted with the application.

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