android - findFragmentById return null

Question

When I call findFragmentById() with the id of my fragment, it returns null.

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

        <fragment android:name="com.madduck.test.app.fragment.MainFragment"
                  android:id="@+id/main_fragment"
                  android:layout_width="match_parent"
                  android:layout_height="match_parent" />

        <fragment android:name="com.madduck.test.app.fragment.LoginFragment"
                  android:id="@+id/login_fragment"
                  android:layout_width="match_parent"
                  android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

MainActivity.java

private static final int LOGIN = 0;
private static final int MAIN = 1;
private static final int FRAGMENT_COUNT = MAIN +1;
private Fragment[] fragments = new Fragment[FRAGMENT_COUNT]

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

    FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
    fragments[LOGIN] = fm.findFragmentById(R.id.login_fragment);
    fragments[MAIN] = fm.findFragmentById(R.id.main_fragment);

    FragmentTransaction transaction = fm.beginTransaction();
    for (Fragment f : fragments) {
        if (f != null)
            transaction.hide(f);
        else
            Log.e(TAG, "???");
    }

    transaction.commit();
}

The thing is that when I call fm.findFragmentById(R.id.login_fragment); I get a null but when I call fm.findFragmentById(R.id.main_fragment); I get the fragment.

Answer 1

The answer Kar0t is perfectly fine but this may help somebody. On my case I had a fragment inside of a fragment and I was getting the wrong FragmentManager. I just had to call:

getChildFragmentManager()

and then just find the Fragment as usual:

fm.findFragmentById(R.id.fragment)