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<activity
            android:name=".view.activity.NativeECSmartRegisterActivity"
            android:screenOrientation="landscape"
            android:theme="@style/AppThemeNoTitle" />

 

Where style/AppThemeNoTitle is defined under styles.xml file as:

<style name="AppThemeNoTitle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="android:windowFullscreen">false</item> <!-- this is useful to prevent the keyboard from covering up the input fields -->
        <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
</style>

The logic that is contained in the initial activity that loads the form is then moved to a fragment, the base fragment, the fragment should be as self sufficient as possible i.e only the functions that are handled better by activity rather than fragment are left, the rest are moved to the fragment.

see org.ei.opensrp.mcare.fragment.HouseHoldSmartRegisterFragment; most of the the code moved over from the initial activity i.e org.ei.opensrp.mcare.household.HouseHoldSmartRegisterActivity.

The other modification required by the activity goes to manifest file i.e since we are switching the activity orientation during runtime depending on the fragment on display, we need to prevent the activity from starting a fresh each time (would otherwise cause an exception)

<activity
            android:name=".household.HouseHoldSmartRegisterActivity"
            android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
            android:theme="@style/AppThemeNoActionBarAndTitle" />

The default form launch functionality is also overridden such that we show the FormFragment instead of launching a new activity whenever a form is requested, the new form launch functionality accepts three parameters:

• formName - the name of the form we want to launch

• entityId - the id of the record we want to load to the form e.g if we are editing

• meta data (fields overrides) - data structure that holds the fields we would like to override

	@Override
    public void startFormActivity(String formName, String entityId, String metaData) {
        if (entityId != null){
            String data = FormUtils.getInstance(getApplicationContext()).generateXMLInputForFormWithEntityId(entityId, formName, null);
            DisplayFormFragment displayFormFragment = getDisplayFormFragment();
            if (displayFormFragment != null) {
                displayFormFragment.setFormData(data);
                displayFormFragment.loadFormData();
                displayFormFragment.setRecordId(entityId);
            }
        }

        mPager.setCurrentItem(1, false); //Don't animate the view on orientation change the view disapears
    }