dynamically add and remove view to viewpager

Question

(I figured out a solution - please see my post in the Answer section below.)

In my app, the user will start with a single view of his data. I'd like to add a ViewPager and allow the user to add more views as desired. How do I do this? (I dont' want to use the FragmentPagerAdapter.)

I've read countless posts and overviews but am still missing something. Here's what I think I understand:

MainActivity creates a ViewPager and PagerAdapter:

ViewPager pager = null;
MainPagerAdapter adapter = null;
public void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
  super.onCreate (savedInstanceState);
  pager = new ViewPager (this);
  setContentView (pager);

  adapter = new MainPagerAdapter();
  pager.setAdapter (adapter); 

  View v0 = code_to_create_initial_view();
  adapter.add (v0, 0);      
}

Use a PagerAdapter to provide the sets of view. For this it seems I need methods to add and remove views, something like this; obviously more is needed to tell the ViewPager stuff has changed and how to show the change:

class MainPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter
{
  // This holds all the currently displayable views, in order from left to right.
  private ArrayList<View> views = new ArrayList<View>();

  public void addView (View v, int position)
  {
    views.add (position, v);
  }

  public void removeView (int position)
  {
    views.remove (position);
  }
}

In addition, I need to implement the following vitual methods. I'm lost here - what calls them and what are they supposed to do (ok, getCount is obvious)?

  public object instantiateItem (ViewGroup pager, int position);
  public void destroyItem (ViewGroup, int, Object);
  public int getCount ();
  public boolean isViewFromObject (View, Object);

• What are the ViewGroup params for - isn't the containing group the ViewPager itself?
• What does isViewFromObject do - how does an object get associated with a view in the first place?
• Should I be calling startUpdate and finishUdate when I add or remove views?

Thanks.

Answer 1

To remove you can use this directly:

getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().remove(fragment).
                            commitAllowingStateLoss();

fragment is the fragment you want to remove.

Answer 2

I've created a custom PagerAdapters library to change items in PagerAdapters dynamically.

You can change items dynamically like following by using this library.

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        /** ... **/
    adapter = new MyStatePagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager()
                            , new String[]{"1", "2", "3"});
    ((ViewPager)findViewById(R.id.view_pager)).setAdapter(adapter);
     adapter.add("4");
     adapter.remove(0);
}

class MyPagerAdapter extends ArrayViewPagerAdapter<String> {

    public MyPagerAdapter(String[] data) {
        super(data);
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, String item, int position) {
        View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item_page, container, false);
        ((TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.item_txt)).setText(item);
        return v;
    }
}

Thils library also support pages created by Fragments.