Fragment in ViewPager using FragmentPagerAdapter i

Question

I have a fragment interface with tabs along the bottom which open different fragments in the main view.

I have one particular fragment which is a list of items. If the user selects one of the items in this list, another fragment opens which contains a viewpager which scrolls horizontally between all of the items in the list in the previous fragment. This works great.

The viewpager uses a FragmentPagerAdapter to display the items.

The problem comes when the user selects an item in the list, views it, then hits the button on the tab bar to go back to the list, then selects another item. The second time an item is selected, a blank screen appears instead of the viewpager. I receive no errors in my LogCat when this happens.

Why is the viewpager only appearing the first time?

FragmentPagerAdapter:

public class ViewPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
    Cursor mCursor;

    public ViewPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm, Cursor c) {
        super(fm);
        mCursor = c;
    }

    public void changeCursor(Cursor c) {
        mCursor = c;
        this.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        if (mCursor == null) return 0;
        else return mCursor.getCount();
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        mCursor.moveToPosition(position);
        return TeamCardFragment.newInstance(mCursor, position);
    }
}

PagerFragment:

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    Bundle bundle = getArguments();
    mCursorPosition = bundle.getInt(TeamCardCommon.BUNDLE_KEY_CURSOR_POSITION);

    View mView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.team_card_master, container, false);
    mViewPager = (ViewPager)mView.findViewById(R.id.team_card_master_view_pager);

    mAdapter = new ViewPagerAdapter(getFragmentManager(), cursor);
    new setAdapterTask().execute();

    return mView;
}

private class setAdapterTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        mViewPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);
        mViewPager.setCurrentItem(mCursorPosition);
    }
}

Answer 1

Change FragmentPagerAdapter into FragmentStatePagerAdapter Use getChildFragmentManager() instead of getFragmentManager()

getChildFragmentManager() - because according to documentation, it will return a private FragmentManager for placing and managing Fragments inside of this Fragment. Meanwhile getFragmentManager() will return the FragmentManager for interacting with fragments associated with this activity

Answer 2

I was getting this same problem on Xamarin Android with a blank screen the second time around.. Setting the following fixed it for me.

viewPager.SaveFromParentEnabled = false;

Answer 3

I had the same thing, in the second time i call the Pager Adapter, the child view return a NullPointerException. And changing the adapder in FragmentStatePagerAdapter solve my issue too.

Answer 4

Try to put setOffscreenPageLimit (int limit) on parent ViewPager.

mViewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(totalPages-1);

This worked for me like charm.

In my case I had fragment inside TabLayout with ViewPager.

And another ViewPager inside that fragment. First time all working fine but when I change tab and return back, some of my fragment gone blank.

Answer 5

I managed to solve this by replacing getFragmentManager() with getChildFragmentManager() in the parent fragment. This parent fragment was instancing an android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter in order to contain pageable (slideable) fragments, which requires a fragment manager in the constructor. To this constructor I passed the return value of getChildFragmentManager().

hackbod's link was key (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html#NestedFragments), which was found in this post Fragments within Fragments

To nest a fragment, simply call getChildFragmentManager() on the Fragment in which you want to add a fragment. This returns a FragmentManager that you can use like you normally do from the top-level activity to create fragment transactions.

Answer 6

In my very particular case, where I was using a CoordinatorLayout with an AppBarLayout and the ViewPager, what solved it for me was removing the android:fitsSystemWindows="true" from my AppBarLayout xml properties.

Don't ask me why. I know it sounds a little bit ridiculous and like it should have no correlation, but it was this single line the only thing that was causing trouble as I was already using getChildFragmentManager() in my adapter. I spent a whole day debugging my code just to find this, so I hope it saves someone else some time.