ADT blank activity created with fragment activity

Question

I am really confused right now because whenever I create a new Android app with blank activity it always comes out with fragment_main.xml. I just wanted to create a blank activity without the fragment one.

In the first image the blank activity comes with the fragment layout:

The second image shows the created fragment_main

Now I am really confused... this only happened after updating ADT to the latest version. I have referred to this thread: Adt doesn't create default hello world but command line does_

I just wanted to make an Android app with blank activity with no fragment view.

Answer 1

For those who would like instructions on how to remove Fragments from the project:

1) Copy all the contents of res/layout/fragment_main.xml. Open activity_main.xml, delete the FrameLayout, and paste in the copied contents.

2) Delete fragment_main.xml

3) In MainActivity.java, delete the whole PlaceHolderFragment class:

/**  * A placeholder fragment containing a simple view.  */ public static class PlaceholderFragment extends Fragment {      public PlaceholderFragment() {     }      @Override     public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,                     Bundle savedInstanceState) {         View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main,                     container, false);         return rootView;     } } 

4) Delete the following lines from onCreate():

if (savedInstanceState == null) {     getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()             .add(R.id.container, new PlaceholderFragment()).commit(); } 

At this point you should be all set to run the project.

Answer 2

You can use the previous template by editing the template files inside the Android SDK folder. But, make sure you have a backup of the "BlankActivity" folder.

• Go to /templates/tools/templates/activities/BlankActivity

• Locate the template.xml file and locate the following piece of code

   <parameter   id="fragmentLayoutName"   name="Fragment Layout Name"   type="string"   constraints="layout|unique|nonempty"   suggest="fragment_${classToResource(activityClass)}"   default="fragment_main"   help="The name of the layout to create for the activity's content fragment" /> 

and change the constraints to constraints="empty".

• Locate recipie.xml.ftl and locate the following piece of code
  <instantiate from="res/layout/fragment_simple.xml.ftl" to="${escapeXmlAttribute(resOut)}/layout/${fragmentLayoutName}.xml" />
  and comment the whole line.

• Locate SampleActivity.java.ftl file inside root/src/app_package and delete these two lines
  <#include "include_options_menu.java.ftl"> <#include "include_fragment.java.ftl">

• Locate fragment_simple.xml.ftl and activity_fragment_container.xml.ftl file inside root/res/layout. Copy the contents of fragment_simple.xml.ftl file to activity_fragment_container.xml.ftl file.

Now when you try to create a new activity, you'll get this screen

You can leave the Fragment Layout Name field blank.

This works fine for me in the case of blank activity. I'm not sure if this is the right approach, with discarding fragments and all, but this works for me.