Fragment life-cycle

A fragment has its own life cycle. But it is always connected to the life cycle of the activity which uses the fragment.

If an activity stops, its fragments are also stopped. If an activity is destroyed, its fragments are also destroyed.

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Method	Description
onAttach()	The fragment instance is associated with an activity instance.The fragment and the activity is not fully initialized. Typically you get in this method a reference to the activity which uses the fragment for further initialization work.
onCreate()	Fragment is created. The onCreate() method is called after the onCreate() method of the activity but before the onCreateView() method of the fragment.
onCreateView()	The fragment instance creates its view hierarchy. In the onCreateView() method the fragment creates its user interface. Here you can inflate a layout via the inflate() method call of the Inflator object passed as a parameter to this method. In this method you should not interactive with the activity, the activity is not yet fully initialized. There is no need to implement this method for headless fragments .The inflated views become part of the view hierarchy of its containing activity.
onActivityCreated()	The onActivityCreated() is called after the onCreateView() method when the host activity is created. Activity and fragment instance have been created as well as the view hierarchy of the activity. At this point, view can be accessed with the findViewById() method. example. In this method you can instantiate objects which require a Context object.
onStart()	The onStart() method is called once the fragment gets visible.
onResume()	Fragment becomes active.
onPause()	Fragment is visible but becomes not active anymore, e.g., if another activity is animating on top of the activity which contains the fragment.
onStop()	Fragment becomes not visible.
onDestroyView()	Destroys the view of the fragment. If the fragment is recreated from the backstack this method is called and afterwards the onCreateView method.
onDestroy()	Not guaranteed to be called by the Android platform.