Fragment activity catch onKeyDown and use in fragment

As mentioned by others, the accepted answer results in tight coupling between the activity and its fragments.

I would suggest using some sort of event-based implementation instead. This is much more reusable and results in a better software architecture. In previous projects I have used one of the following solutions (Kotlin):

Broadcasts

Using Android´s LocalBroadcastManager: Documentation

Create a BroadcastReceiver:

class SomeBroadcastReceiver : BroadcastReceiver() {

    override fun onReceive(context: Context?, intent: Intent?) {
        val keyCode = intent?.getIntExtra("KEY_CODE", 0)
        // Do something with the event
    }

}

In your activity:

class SomeActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onKeyDown(keyCode: Int, event: KeyEvent?): Boolean {
        val intent = Intent("SOME_TAG").apply { putExtra("KEY_CODE", keyCode) }
        LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).sendBroadcast(intent)
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event)
    }

}

Then, in any of the fragments (or services, etc..):

class SomeFragment : Fragment() {

    val receiver = SomeBroadcastReceiver()

    override fun onCreateView(inflater: LayoutInflater, container: ViewGroup?, savedInstanceState: Bundle?): View? {

        val filter = IntentFilter().apply { addAction("SOME_TAG") }
        LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(context!!).registerReceiver(receiver, filter)

        return super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState)
    }

}

EventBus

Using EventBus

Create an event class:

data class Event(val keyCode: Int)

In your activity:

class SomeActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onKeyDown(keyCode: Int, event: KeyEvent?): Boolean {
        EventBus.getDefault().post(Event(keyCode))
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event)
    }

}

Then, in your fragment:

class SomeFragment : Fragment() {

    override fun onCreateView(inflater: LayoutInflater, container: ViewGroup?, savedInstanceState: Bundle?): View? {

        // Register for events
        EventBus.getDefault().register(this)

        return super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState)
    }

    @Subscribe
    public fun onKeyEvent(event : Event) {
        // Called by eventBus when an event occurs
    }

    override fun onDestroyView() {
        super.onDestroyView()
        EventBus.getDefault().unregister(this)
    }

}

What you can do is to define a custom method in your fragment class(s). For example:

public void myOnKeyDown(int key_code){
   //do whatever you want here
}

and call this method whenever a key-down event is raised in your Activity class. For example:

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU) {
        ((PastEventListFragment)fragments.get(0)).myOnKeyDown(keyCode);
        ((EventListFragment)fragments.get(1)).myOnKeyDown(keyCode);

        //and so on...
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

If someone is interessed how to do it with Boradcast:

In your fragment in onViewCreated

@Override
public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);


// Register to receive messages.
// We are registering an observer (mMessageReceiver) to receive Intents
// with actions named "custom-event-name".
 LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).registerReceiver(mMessageReceiver,
 new IntentFilter("activity-says-hi"));

...}

 // Our handler for received Intents. This will be called whenever an Intent
 // with an action named "custom-event-name" is broadcasted.
 private BroadcastReceiver mMessageReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
 @Override
 public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
 // Get extra data included in the Intent

 doSomethingCauseVolumeKeyPressed();

 }
};

your keyevent - code to put in activity

@Override
public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) {
    int action = event.getAction();
    int keyCode = event.getKeyCode();
    switch (keyCode) {
        case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP:
            if (action == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                sendBroadcast();
            }
            return true;
        case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN:
            if (action == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                sendBroadcast();
            }
            return true;
        default:
            return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event);
    }
}

your broadcast sender:

private void  sendVolumeBroadcast(){
    Intent intent = new Intent("activity-says-hi");
    LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).sendBroadcast(intent);
}