DialogFragment - retaining listener after screen rotation

Question

I have a DialogFragment which creates a DatePickerDialog. I'm using a static method called newInstance to set the initial values in order to use the default empty constructor. However, how am I supposed to set the listener? After the screen rotation, when clicking in the "Done" button, the listener doesn't do anything since it does not exist.

public class DatePickerFragment extends DialogFragment {
    public static final String ARG_YEAR = "year";
    public static final String ARG_MONTH = "month";
    public static final String ARG_DAY = "day";

    private OnDateSetListener listener_;

    public static DatePickerFragment newInstance(OnDateSetListener listener, int year, int month, int day) {
        final DatePickerFragment date_picker = new DatePickerFragment();
        date_picker.setListener(listener);

        final Bundle arguments = new Bundle();
        arguments.putInt(ARG_YEAR, year);
        arguments.putInt(ARG_MONTH, month);
        arguments.putInt(ARG_DAY, day);
        date_picker.setArguments(arguments);

        return date_picker;
    }

    private void setListener(OnDateSetListener listener) {
        listener_ = listener;
    }

    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle saved_instance_state) {
        final Bundle arguments = getArguments();
        final int year = arguments.getInt(ARG_YEAR);
        final int month = arguments.getInt(ARG_MONTH);
        final int day = arguments.getInt(ARG_DAY);

        return new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), listener_, year, month, day);
    }
}

Answer 1

However, how am I supposed to set the listener?

You update the listener reference in the onCreate method of the Activity:

private OnDateSetListener mOds = new OnDateSetListener() {

    @Override
    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear,
            int dayOfMonth) {
             // do important stuff
    }
};

and in the onCreate method:

if (savedInstanceState != null) {
    DatePickerFragment dpf = (DatePickerFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
            .findFragmentByTag("theTag?");
    if (dpf != null) {
        dpf.setListener(mOds);
    }
}