How to set a Fragment tag by code?

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I haven't found something like setTag(String tagName) method in the Fragment class. The only way to set a Fragment tag that I have found is by doing a FragmentTransaction and passing a tag name as parameter.

Is this the only way to explicitly set a Fragment tag by code?

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This is the best way I have found :

   public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        if (savedInstanceState == null) {
          // Let's first dynamically add a fragment into a frame container
          getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction(). 
              replace(R.id.flContainer, new DemoFragment(), "SOMETAG").
              commit();
          // Now later we can lookup the fragment by tag
          DemoFragment fragmentDemo = (DemoFragment) 
              getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("SOMETAG");
        }
    }
}

Nowadays there's a simpler way to achieve this if you are using a DialogFragment (not a Fragment):

val yourDialogFragment = YourDialogFragment()
yourDialogFragment.show(
    activity.supportFragmentManager,
    "YOUR_TAG_FRAGMENT"
)

Under the hood, the show() method does create a FragmentTransaction and adds the tag by using the add() method. But it's much more convenient to use the show() method in my opinion.

You could shorten it for Fragment too, by using a Kotlin Extension :)

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