Retrieve a Fragment from a ViewPager

Question

I'm using a ViewPager together with a FragmentStatePagerAdapter to host three different fragments:

• [Fragment1]
• [Fragment2]
• [Fragment3]

When I want to get Fragment1 from the ViewPager in the FragmentActivity.

What is the problem, and how do I fix it?

Answer 1

I know this has a few answers, but maybe this will help someone. I have used a relatively simple solution when I needed to get a Fragment from my ViewPager. In your Activity or Fragment holding the ViewPager, you can use this code to cycle through every Fragment it holds.

FragmentPagerAdapter fragmentPagerAdapter = (FragmentPagerAdapter) mViewPager.getAdapter();
for(int i = 0; i < fragmentPagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
    Fragment viewPagerFragment = fragmentPagerAdapter.getItem(i);
    if(viewPagerFragment != null) {
        // Do something with your Fragment
        // Check viewPagerFragment.isResumed() if you intend on interacting with any views.
    }
}

• If you know the position of your Fragment in the ViewPager, you can just call getItem(knownPosition).

• If you don't know the position of your Fragment in the ViewPager, you can have your children Fragments implement an interface with a method like getUniqueId(), and use that to differentiate them. Or you can cycle through all Fragments and check the class type, such as if(viewPagerFragment instanceof FragmentClassYouWant)

!!! EDIT !!!

I have discovered that getItem only gets called by a FragmentPagerAdapter when each Fragment needs to be created the first time, after that, it appears the the Fragments are recycled using the FragmentManager. This way, many implementations of FragmentPagerAdapter create new Fragments in getItem. Using my above method, this means we will create new Fragments each time getItem is called as we go through all the items in the FragmentPagerAdapter. Due to this, I have found a better approach, using the FragmentManager to get each Fragment instead (using the accepted answer). This is a more complete solution, and has been working well for me.

FragmentPagerAdapter fragmentPagerAdapter = (FragmentPagerAdapter) mViewPager.getAdapter();
for(int i = 0; i < fragmentPagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
    String name = makeFragmentName(mViewPager.getId(), i);
    Fragment viewPagerFragment = getChildFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(name);
    // OR Fragment viewPagerFragment = getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(name);
    if(viewPagerFragment != null) {

        // Do something with your Fragment
        if (viewPagerFragment.isResumed()) {
            // Interact with any views/data that must be alive
        }
        else {
            // Flag something for update later, when this viewPagerFragment
            // returns to onResume
        }
    }
}

And you will need this method.

private static String makeFragmentName(int viewId, int position) {
    return "android:switcher:" + viewId + ":" + position;
}

Answer 2

I couldn't find a simple, clean way to do this. However, the ViewPager widget is just another ViewGroup , which hosts your fragments. The ViewPager has these fragments as immediate children. So you could just iterate over them (using .getChildCount() and .getChildAt() ), and see if the fragment instance that you're looking for is currently loaded into the ViewPager and get a reference to it. E.g. you could use some static unique ID field to tell the fragments apart.

Note that the ViewPager may not have loaded the fragment you're looking for since it's a virtualizing container like ListView.

Answer 3

FragmentPagerAdapter is the factory of the fragments. To find a fragment based on its position if still in memory use this:

public Fragment findFragmentByPosition(int position) {
    FragmentPagerAdapter fragmentPagerAdapter = getFragmentPagerAdapter();
    return getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(
            "android:switcher:" + getViewPager().getId() + ":"
                    + fragmentPagerAdapter.getItemId(position));
}

Sample code for v4 support api.

Answer 4

In Fragment

public int getArgument(){
   return mPage;
{
public void update(){

}

In FragmentActivity

List<Fragment> fragments = getSupportFragmentManager().getFragments();
for(Fragment f:fragments){
    if((f instanceof PageFragment)&&(!f.isDetached())){
          PageFragment pf = (PageFragment)f;   
          if(pf.getArgument()==pager.getCurrentItem())pf.update();
    }
}

Answer 5

in TabLayout there are multiple tab for Fragment. you can find the fragment by Tag using the index of the fragment.

For ex. the index for Fragment1 is 0, so in findFragmentByTag() method, pass the tag for the Viewpager.after using fragmentTransaction you can add,replace the fragment.

String tag = "android:switcher:" + R.id.viewPager + ":" + 0; Fragment1 f = (Fragment1) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(tag);

Answer 6

The main answer relies on a name being generated by the framework. If that ever changes, then it will no longer work.

What about this solution, overriding instantiateItem() and destroyItem() of your Fragment(State)PagerAdapter:

public class MyPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {
    SparseArray<Fragment> registeredFragments = new SparseArray<Fragment>();

    public MyPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return ...;
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return MyFragment.newInstance(...); 
    }

    @Override
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
        Fragment fragment = (Fragment) super.instantiateItem(container, position);
        registeredFragments.put(position, fragment);
        return fragment;
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
        registeredFragments.remove(position);
        super.destroyItem(container, position, object);
    }

    public Fragment getRegisteredFragment(int position) {
        return registeredFragments.get(position);
    }
}

This seems to work for me when dealing with Fragments that are available. Fragments that have not yet been instantiated, will return null when calling getRegisteredFragment. But I've been using this mostly to get the current Fragment out of the ViewPager: adapater.getRegisteredFragment(viewPager.getCurrentItem()) and this won't return null.

I'm not aware of any other drawbacks of this solution. If there are any, I'd like to know.