First fragment to be added to the main activity when application starts up

Question

Suppose I am creating an Android application which has a Navigation drawer and set of fragments. When user clicks on an option in the Navigation drawer the corresponding fragment is loaded. The application has only one activity (Main activity) and it has no view.

When the application is first started which fragment gets loaded into the main activity? How does the application know which fragment to be loaded first without user interaction? How to set a custom fragment to be loaded automatically when the application starts?

Thank you

Answer 1

You just perform the same FragmentTransaction you use to replace the fragment on user interaction and in the onCreate() method of your Activity. But you have to check if savedInstanceState is null like this:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    if(savedInstanceState == null) {
        FragmentManager manager = getFragmentManager();
        FragmentTransaction transaction = manager.beginTransaction();
        transaction.replace(R.id.flFragmentContainer, MainFragment.newInstance());
        transaction.commit();
    }
}