Use SupportFragments and FragmentActivities everywhere.

[Raymond Wells]

"SupportFragments", aka android.support.v4.app.Fragment have a number of advantages over regular android.app.Fragment objects:

• They support nesting.

• They have the most recent bugfixes. (I've run in to a few bugs with android.app.Fragment). fragments not being destroyed/overlaying other fragments.. nasty.

• Fully backward compatible with devices even before 3.0.

• Compatible with the FragmentTabHost view.

• It is possible to access the containing fragment with getParentFragment().

What needs to change?

Very little:

• No external libraries (already included in the android support libs).

• Change any imports of android.app.Fragment to android.support.v4.app.Fragment

• ^^ Same as above with FragmentManager & FragmentTransaction.

• Change all activities to a FragmentActivity.

• Use getSupportFragmentManager() instead of getFragmentManager()

• Change instances of getFragmentManager() used for fragments within fragments to getChildFragmentManager()

This has been done for almost all of my additions, as the "support fragments" are more stable.