Defining a fragment layout in XML

The first step in learning how to use…the fragments API is creating a fragment.…To create a fragment, you'll need…an XML layout file and a java class.…I'm working in the project create fragment…from chapter two of the exercise files.…In this project, there's an XML layout…file called activity main dot XML.…Its root element is a relative layout…and it contains a single text view.…The text view is displaying the text "hello world"…which is actually a string resource.…

To create a fragment, I'm just going…to make a copy of this XML layout file.…In the project view, I'll right click on the XML file…and I'll copy it to the clipboard, and then I'll right click…on the layout folder and paste it in to place.…I'll name the new file my fragment.…The XML content for the fragment layout file,…right now, it's exactly the same as the activity.…This is to emphasize the point.…A fragment can do everything…that an activity can do visually.…

But to make sure I know when I'm actually…seeing the fragment, I'll change the text…that the text view is displaying.…