[android] Start an activity from a fragment

I have 2 fragments with on both fragments a button. When I press the button I'd like to start a new Activity. But I can't get it to work.

The error I'm getting: ERROR here: Type mismatch: cannot convert from mFragmentFavorite to Fragment

What am I doing wrong?

MyFragmentPagerAdapter

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter;

public class MyFragmentPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter{

    final int PAGE_COUNT = 3;

    /** Constructor of the class */
    public MyFragmentPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    /** This method will be invoked when a page is requested to create */
    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int arg0) {

        switch(arg0){

        case 0:
            return new FavoriteActivity();
                    //ERROR: Type mismatch: cannot convert from FavoriteActivity to Fragment


        case 1:
            return new SettingsActivity();


        default:
            return null;

        }       
    }

    /** Returns the number of pages */
    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return PAGE_COUNT;
    }
}

FavoriteActivity

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;

public class FavoriteActivity extends Activity{

    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.main_favorite, container, false);


        OnClickListener listnr=new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                  Intent i= new Intent("aFavorite");
                  startActivity(i);
            }
        };

          Button btn =(Button) v.findViewById(R.id.mainFavorite);
          btn.setOnClickListener(listnr);

          return v;
    }
}

If FavoriteActivity extends fragments, the error is gone but then I get an error at findViewById(R.id.mainFavorite); and the error is

The method findViewById(int) is undefined for the type FavoriteActivity

EDIT:

When I press the button in the fragment to start the activity then the app crashes this is my logcat

03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=FavoriteActivityList }
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1569)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1420)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3446)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3407)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.startActivityFromFragment(FragmentActivity.java:826)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.startActivity(Fragment.java:838)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at com.example.spui.FavoriteActivity$1.onClick(FavoriteActivity.java:24)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4211)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:17267)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1006)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:773)
03-18 16:01:23.985: E/AndroidRuntime(1985):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I use this in my fragment.

Button btn1 = (Button) thisLayout
            .findViewById(R.id.btnDb1);

    btn1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), otherActivity.class);
            ((MainActivity) getActivity()).startActivity(intent);

        }
    });

    return thisLayout;
}

You should use getActivity() to launch activities from fragments

Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), mFragmentFavorite.class);
startActivity(intent);

Also, you should be naming classes with caps: MFragmentActivity instead of mFragmentActivity.

If you are using getActivity() then you have to make sure that the calling activity is added already. If activity has not been added in such case so you may get null when you call getActivity()

in such cases getContext() is safe

then the code for starting the activity will be slightly changed like,

Intent intent = new Intent(getContext(), mFragmentFavorite.class);
startActivity(intent);

Activity, Service and Application extends ContextWrapper class so you can use this or getContext() or getApplicationContext() in the place of first argument.

with Kotlin I execute this code:

requireContext().startActivity<YourTargetActivity>()

Start new Activity From a Fragment:

Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), TargetActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

Start new Activity From a Activity:

Intent intent = new Intent(this, TargetActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

You may have to replace getActivity() with MainActivity.this for those that are having issues with this.