Android - Activity vs FragmentActivity

Question

I am new in Android  I want to build an app with tab format  I found many documentation where Activity has been used  Also in many cases have used FragmentActivity  I am not sure which will be better to start  Please suggest me should I use Activity or FragmentActivity to start development in tab format

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If you use the Eclipse  New Android Project  wizard in a recent ADT bundle  you ll automatically get tabs implemented as a Fragments  This makes the conversion of your application to the tablet format much easier in the future   For simple single screen layouts you may still use Activity

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FragmentActivity gives you all of the functionality of Activity plus the ability to use Fragments which are very useful in many cases  particularly when working with the ActionBar  which is the best way to use Tabs in Android   If you are only targeting Honeycomb  v11  or greater devices  then you can use Activity and use the native Fragments introduced in v11 without issue  FragmentActivity was built specifically as part of the Support Library to back port some of those useful features  such as Fragments  back to older devices   I should also note that you ll probably find the Backward Compatibility - Implementing Tabs training very helpful going forward

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ianhanniballake is right  You can get all the functionality of Activity from FragmentActivity  In fact  FragmentActivity has more functionality  Using FragmentActivity you can easily build tab and swap format  For each tab you can use different Fragment  Fragments are reusable   So for any FragmentActivity you can reuse the same Fragment  Still you can use Activity for single pages like list down something and edit element of the list in next page  Also remember to use Activity if you are using android app Fragment  use FragmentActivity if you are using android support v4 app Fragment  Never attach a android support v4 app Fragment to an android app Activity  as this will cause an exception to be thrown

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