I have setup a very simple test project https://github.com/ArtworkAD/ViewPagerDialogTest to evaluate following situation: the main activity has a view pager which hosts a single fragment using support fragment manager:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
// ...
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// ...
viewPager.setAdapter(new ViewPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager()));
// ...
tabLayout.setupWithViewPager(viewPager);
}
@Override
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
MainActivity.CustomDialog dialog = (MainActivity.CustomDialog) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(MainActivity.CustomDialog.TAG);
if (dialog == null) {
new MainActivity.CustomDialog().show(getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction(), MainActivity.CustomDialog.TAG);
}
}
// ...
}
When the activity is resumed a dialog fragment is shown inside the main activity.
The single fragment inside the view pager is defined like this:
public class RootFragment extends Fragment {
@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.root_fragment, container, false);
if (savedInstanceState == null) {
getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(R.id.root_frame, new FirstLevelFragment(), "ROOT").commit();
}
return root;
}
}
This root fragment allows us to stack other fragments on the "root_frame". So we stack another and another:
public class FirstLevelFragment extends Fragment {
@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
setRetainInstance(true);
View root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.first_level_fragment, container, false);
root.findViewById(R.id.btn).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
SecondLevelFragment f = (SecondLevelFragment) getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("NESTED");
if (f == null) {
getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(R.id.root_frame, new SecondLevelFragment(), "NESTED").addToBackStack(null).commit();
}
}
});
return root;
}
public static class SecondLevelFragment extends Fragment {
@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
setRetainInstance(true);
return inflater.inflate(R.layout.second_level_fragment, container, false);
}
}
}
This works great! The stacking idea is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/21453571/401025 . However when dialog is shown and the users goes to the second level fragment and rotates the screen I get following exception:
E/AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{de.azzoft.viewpagerdialogtest/de.azzoft.viewpagerdialogtest.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No view found for id 0x7f0c0083 (de.azzoft.viewpagerdialogtest:id/root_frame) for fragment SecondLevelFragment{15c0db38 #0 id=0x7f0c0083 NESTED}
E/AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No view found for id 0x7f0c0083 (de.azzoft.viewpagerdialogtest:id/root_frame) for fragment SecondLevelFragment{15c0db38 #0 id=0x7f0c0083 NESTED}
Full stack trace: https://github.com/ArtworkAD/ViewPagerDialogTest/blob/master/README.md
Without the dialog appearing everything works great. You can test it by downloading the test project.
It seems that the dialog, which is actually a fragment, messes up fragment hierarchy when it is added to the activity. Any ideas how to fix this?
It is important that the second fragment is retained.