findFragmentById for SupportMapFragment returns null in Android Studio

Question

Recently I migrated a project from Eclipse to Android Studio. Everything is setup and working fine except for my one fragment which uses a SupportMapFragment. The below findFragmentById (which worked when building in Eclipse) is now returning null :(

public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
    SupportMapFragment m = ((SupportMapFragment) getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.safety_map));

snippet of xml...

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     xmlns:map="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent"
     android:orientation="vertical" >

     <fragment
         android:id="@+id/safety_map"
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="fill_parent"
         android:layout_marginBottom="40dp"
         map:cameraTargetLat="@string/livesafe_latitude"
         map:cameraTargetLng="@string/livesafe_longitude"
         map:uiZoomControls="false"
         class="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"/>

Here are my dependencies in my build.gradle:

 dependencies {
    //google analytics
    compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-analytics:v3-rev103-1.19.0'
    //support library for api 10
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.0'
    //google play services
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:6.1.11'
    compile project(':facebook')
    compile files('libs/android-support-multidex.jar')
    compile files('libs/aws-android-sdk-1.6.0-debug.jar')
    compile files('libs/FlurryAnalytics_3.3.2.jar')
 }

I haven't changed any code in the xml file or the Fragment class that previously worked in Eclipse.

Answer 1

Judging by the fact that you're overriding Fragment.onActivityCreated(), I take it that your layout containing the map fragment is the layout for your Fragment. In that case, the SupportMapFragment is a child fragment of your hosting Fragment. When you attempt to retrieve it, you're using the Activity FragmentManager. You should instead use your Fragment's FragmentManager:

For example, this:

SupportMapFragment m = ((SupportMapFragment) getActivity()
        .getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.safety_map));

becomes:

SupportMapFragment m = ((SupportMapFragment) getChildFragmentManager()
        .findFragmentById(R.id.safety_map));

Answer 2

Yes. It's not work for targetSdkVersion 21, if your Map fragment is inner part of Fragment (due to some issues, that mentioned this and this).

As temporary resolving can advice such trick:

public class MyFragment extends Fragment {

    private SupportMapFragment fragment;
    private GoogleMap map;

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_with_map, container, false);
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
        FragmentManager fm = getChildFragmentManager();
        fragment = (SupportMapFragment) fm.findFragmentById(R.id.map_container);
        if (fragment == null) {
            fragment = SupportMapFragment.newInstance();
            fm.beginTransaction().replace(R.id.map_container, fragment).commit();
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

The following code worked for me. I was using Google Map in a Fragment:

 SupportMapFragment m = ((SupportMapFragment) getChildFragmentManager() .findFragmentById(R.id.safety_map));