Utility method for getting the appropriate parent of a Fragment for a given callback interface.

FragmentUtils.java

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;

public class FragmentUtils {

  /**
   * @param fragment
   *            The Fragment whose parent is to be found
   * @param parentClass
   *            The interface that the parent should implement
   * @return The parent of fragment that implements parentClass,
   *         null, if no such parent can be found
   */
  @Nullable
  public static <T> T getParent(@NonNull Fragment fragment, @NonNull Class<T> parentClass) {
    Fragment parentFragment = fragment.getParentFragment();
    if (parentClass.isInstance(parentFragment)) {
      //Checked by runtime methods
      //noinspection unchecked
      return (T) parentFragment;
    } else if (parentClass.isInstance(fragment.getActivity())) {
      //Checked by runtime methods
      //noinspection unchecked
      return (T) fragment.getActivity();
    }
    return null;
  }
}

LICENSE

Copyright 2015 Joshua Brown

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