android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager OR android.app.FragmentManager?

Question

I'm learning Android development. I get stuck at something that should be very easy.

Im creating an App with one Activity, 2 fragments and 1 interface.

android:minSdkVersion="11"
android:targetSdkVersion="19

So in the main activity Im trying to create a reference to Fragment B using the manager. I get stuck here, because Eclispse is telling me to change some things (see below):

My intension:`

@Override
    public void respond(int i) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    FragmentManager manager =getFragmentManager();
    FragmentB f2= (FragmentB) manager.findFragmentById(R.id.fragment2);

}`

If I do it this whay I get the error messages and need to perform some changes. After the changes the code looks like this (and I still can't reach FragmentB):

    @Override
public void respond(int i) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    android.app.FragmentManager manager =getFragmentManager();
    android.app.Fragment f2=  manager.findFragmentById(R.id.fragment2);

}

For extra details I'll put here also the import header of the Activity:

  package com.example.modular_ui;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.os.Build;

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements Communicator{....

What am I missing here? the whole support.v4 /support.v7 thing is a little confusing for rookies.

EDIT: After changing to:

    import android.app.Fragment;
import android.app.FragmentManager;

AND extending FragmentActivity I still can't create a reference to FragmentB:

@Override
public void respond(int i) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

FragmentManager man = getFragmentManager();
FragmentB b = man.findFragmentById(R.id.fragment2);

}

As Requested I've posted the FragmentB code:

package com.example.modular_ui;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class FragmentB extends Fragment {

TextView text;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_b, container);
}

@Override
    public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
        text = (TextView) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.textView1);
    }

Main XML

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/container"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.example.modular_ui.MainActivity"
    tools:ignore="MergeRootFrame" >

    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/fragment1"
        android:name="com.example.modular_ui.FragmentA"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/fragment2"
        android:name="com.example.modular_ui.FragmentB"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/fragment1"
        android:layout_marginTop="54dp" />

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

Simply use getSupportFragmentManager(); , after you added the support library successfully.