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

This is based on Steven's answer above. This will return actual instance of the fragment which is already attached to the parent activity.

FragmentPagerAdapter fragmentPagerAdapter = (FragmentPagerAdapter) mViewPager.getAdapter();
    for(int i = 0; i < fragmentPagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {

        Fragment viewPagerFragment = (Fragment) mViewPager.getAdapter().instantiateItem(mViewPager, i);
        if(viewPagerFragment != null && viewPagerFragment.isAdded()) {

            if (viewPagerFragment instanceof FragmentOne){
                FragmentOne oneFragment = (FragmentOne) viewPagerFragment;
                if (oneFragment != null){
                    oneFragment.update(); // your custom method
                }
            } else if (viewPagerFragment instanceof FragmentTwo){
                FragmentTwo twoFragment = (FragmentTwo) viewPagerFragment;

                if (twoFragment != null){
                    twoFragment.update(); // your custom method
                }
            }
        }
    }

Answer 2

Ok for the adapter FragmentStatePagerAdapter I fund a solution :

in your FragmentActivity :

ActionBar mActionBar = getSupportActionBar(); 
mActionBar.addTab(mActionBar.newTab().setText("TAB1").setTabListener(this).setTag(Fragment.instantiate(this, MyFragment1.class.getName())));
mActionBar.addTab(mActionBar.newTab().setText("TAB2").setTabListener(this).setTag(Fragment.instantiate(this, MyFragment2.class.getName())));
mActionBar.addTab(mActionBar.newTab().setText("TAB3").setTabListener(this).setTag(Fragment.instantiate(this, MyFragment3.class.getName())));

viewPager = (STViewPager) super.findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
mPagerAdapter = new MyPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager(), mActionBar);
viewPager.setAdapter(this.mPagerAdapter);

and create a methode in your class FragmentActivity - So that method give you access to your Fragment, you just need to give it the position of the fragment you want:

public Fragment getActiveFragment(int position) {
String name = MyPagerAdapter.makeFragmentName(position);
return getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(name);
}

in your Adapter :

public class MyPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {

private final ActionBar actionBar;
private final FragmentManager fragmentManager;

public MyPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fragmentManager, com.actionbarsherlock.app.ActionBarActionBar mActionBar) {super(fragmentManager);
this.actionBar = mActionBar;
this.fragmentManager = fragmentManager;
}

@Override
public Fragment getItem(int position) {
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(mTchatDetailsFragment, makeFragmentName(position)).commit();
return (Fragment)this.actionBar.getTabAt(position);
}

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

@Override
public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
return this.actionBar.getTabAt(position).getText();
}

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

}

Answer 3

Must extends FragmentPagerAdapter into your ViewPager adapter class.
If you use FragmentStatePagerAdapter then you will not able to find your Fragment by its ID

public static String makeFragmentName(int viewPagerId, int index) {
  return "android:switcher:" + viewPagerId + ":" + index;
}

How to use this method :-

Fragment mFragment = ((FragmentActivity) getContext()).getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(
       AppMethodUtils.makeFragmentName(mViewPager.getId(), i)
);
InterestViewFragment newFragment = (InterestViewFragment) mFragment;

Answer 4

You don't need to call getItem() or some other method at later stage to get the reference of a Fragment hosted inside ViewPager. If you want to update some data inside Fragment then use this approach: Update ViewPager dynamically?

Key is to set new data inside Adaper and call notifyDataSetChanged() which in turn will call getItemPosition(), passing you a reference of your Fragment and giving you a chance to update it. All other ways require you to keep reference to yourself or some other hack which is not a good solution.

@Override
public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
    if (object instanceof UpdateableFragment) {
        ((UpdateableFragment) object).update(xyzData);
    }
    //don't return POSITION_NONE, avoid fragment recreation. 
    return super.getItemPosition(object);
}

Answer 5

Create integer resource id in /values/integers.xml

<integer name="page1">1</integer>
<integer name="page2">2</integer>
<integer name="page3">3</integer>

Then in PagerAdapter getItem function:

public Fragment getItem(int position) {

        Fragment fragment = null;

        if (position == 0) {
            fragment = FragmentOne.newInstance();
            mViewPager.setTag(R.integer.page1,fragment);

        }
        else if (position == 1) {

            fragment = FragmentTwo.newInstance();
            mViewPager.setTag(R.integer.page2,fragment);

        } else if (position == 2) {

            fragment = FragmentThree.newInstance();
            mViewPager.setTag(R.integer.page3,fragment);

        }

        return fragment;
        }

Then in activity write this function to get fragment reference:

private Fragment getFragmentByPosition(int position) {
    Fragment fragment = null;

    switch (position) {
        case 0:
            fragment = (Fragment) mViewPager.getTag(R.integer.page1);
            break;

        case 1:

            fragment = (Fragment) mViewPager.getTag(R.integer.page2);
            break;

        case 2:
            fragment = (Fragment) mViewPager.getTag(R.integer.page3);
            break;
            }

            return fragment;
    }

Get the fragment reference by calling the above function and then cast it to your custom fragment:

Fragment fragment = getFragmentByPosition(position);

        if (fragment != null) {
                    FragmentOne fragmentOne = (FragmentOne) fragment;
                    }