Is the Bundle passed on onCreate to Activity and Child Fragment different?

Question

Is private copy ofBundle is passed to Fragment and the parent Activity?

I try to save key,value pair in onSaveInstanceState of Fragment and try to retrieve it in the onCreate of Activity. It is absent there.

But there also seems to be a connection between the two. When I pass null to super.onCreate of Activity the Bundle passed to Fragment's onCreate is also null.

Answer 1

Bundle wich is sent to onCreate for Activity and Fragment are completely different. If you're sending null to super.onCreate -> activity will recreate all the fragments from the scratch. So your Fragment will receive null -> also. Cause this is NEW fragment

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This is a part of code of FragmentActivity:

/**
 * Perform initialization of all fragments and loaders.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
@Override
protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    mFragments.attachHost(null /*parent*/);

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    NonConfigurationInstances nc =
            (NonConfigurationInstances) getLastNonConfigurationInstance();
    if (nc != null) {
        mFragments.restoreLoaderNonConfig(nc.loaders);
    }
    if (savedInstanceState != null) {
        Parcelable p = savedInstanceState.getParcelable(FRAGMENTS_TAG);
        mFragments.restoreAllState(p, nc != null ? nc.fragments : null);

        // Check if there are any pending onActivityResult calls to descendent Fragments.
        if (savedInstanceState.containsKey(NEXT_CANDIDATE_REQUEST_INDEX_TAG)) {
            mNextCandidateRequestIndex =
                    savedInstanceState.getInt(NEXT_CANDIDATE_REQUEST_INDEX_TAG);
            int[] requestCodes = savedInstanceState.getIntArray(ALLOCATED_REQUEST_INDICIES_TAG);
            String[] fragmentWhos = savedInstanceState.getStringArray(REQUEST_FRAGMENT_WHO_TAG);
            if (requestCodes == null || fragmentWhos == null ||
                        requestCodes.length != fragmentWhos.length) {
                Log.w(TAG, "Invalid requestCode mapping in savedInstanceState.");
            } else {
                mPendingFragmentActivityResults = new SparseArrayCompat<>(requestCodes.length);
                for (int i = 0; i < requestCodes.length; i++) {
                    mPendingFragmentActivityResults.put(requestCodes[i], fragmentWhos[i]);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    if (mPendingFragmentActivityResults == null) {
        mPendingFragmentActivityResults = new SparseArrayCompat<>();
        mNextCandidateRequestIndex = 0;
    }

    mFragments.dispatchCreate();
}