DialogFragment Android Pass Arguments Or Parameters? – Easy & Quick 1 Min Tutorial!

In this short post I will show [ DialogFragment Android Pass arguments ] you how to dynamically provide arguments to DialogFragment from another Fragment or Activity.

NewInstance -> DialogFragment Android pass arguments

Let’s create static public newInstance method in your code.

    static public TestDialogFragment newInstance(String testStringArg) {
        TestDialogFragment f = new TestDialogFragment();

        // Add provided argument to Bundles
        Bundle args = new Bundle();
        args.putString("testStringArgKey", testStringArg);
        f.setArguments(args);
        return f;
    }

And next in the onCreateDialog method just get this argument value like in the code below.

    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        ...
        final String testStringArgValue = getArguments().getString("testStringArgKey");
        ...
    }

Finally

Now you can pass arguments from your entry Fragment or Activity.

DialogFragment newFragment = TestDialogFragment.newInstance("BigDataETL is awesome!");

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