Get Activity's 1 Intent extras from Activity's 2 static fragment

Question

I have the following scenario. I use an Intent to go from SelectRecipeActivity to RecipeStepsActivity. I use a bundle to pass the recipe ingredients and steps with this intent. RecipeStepsActivity hosts a static fragment (RecipeStepsFragment) where the recipe's ingredients and steps are being shown. My question is what is the best practice to pass the intent bundle to the RecipeStepsFragment?

Right now I use getActivity().getIntent().getExtras() in RecipeStepsFragment's onCreateView() to get the intent's extras from SelectRecipeActivity and it works with no problems.

As it is not a dynamic fragment (I don't use a Fragment constructor or newInstance method, it is declared in xml using the <fragment> tag) and a fragment transaction is not taking place, I cannot pass the extras using fragment arguments, which I know is the recommended way. Or can I? Am I missing something? Thank you!!

Answer 1

Following @Gabe Sechan's proposal, I used the following way to pass the bundle to RecipeStepsFragment from RecipeStepsActivity.

1) I receive the intent extras from SelectRecipeActivity to RecipeStepsActivity's onCreate method.

2) In RecipeStepsActivity's onCreate method I get a reference to RecipeStepsFragment by calling findFragmentById like this:

RecipeStepsFragment stepsFragment = (RecipeStepsFragment)getSupportFragmentManager()
.findFragmentById(R.id.master_steps_fragment);

3) Then I get the intent extras creating a Bundle, which I then pass as RecipeStepsFragment's arguments, like this:

Bundle args = getIntent().getExtras();
//Pass the intent extras to the fragment using a bundle
if (args != null) {
   //show Dessert Name in Toolbar
   mRecipe = args.getParcelable(EXTRAS_RECIPE_ITEM);
   assert mRecipe != null;
   setTitle(mRecipe.getName());

   assert stepsFragment != null;
   stepsFragment.setArguments(args);
}

4) Now in RecipeStepsFragment's ->onActivityCreated<- method (to be sure that the hosting activity has been created and so we have got the intent extras from the previous activity), I simply get the step's 3 arguments like this:

Bundle fragmentArgs = getArguments();

which contains the same extras SelectRecipeActivity passed to the RecipeStepsActivity.