Action items from Viewpager initial fragment not b

Question

In the application I am developing I am using a ViewPager with fragments and each fragment constructs its own menu independently of all of the other fragments in the ViewPager.

The issue is that sometimes the fragments that are initialised by the ViewPager by default (i.e in it's initial state) are not having their items populated into the action items menu. What's worse is that this issue only occurs intermittently. If I swipe through the ViewPager enough so that the fragments are forced to re-initialise them selves, when I swipe back, the menu populates correctly.

Activity code:

package net.solarnz.apps.fragmentsample;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Fragment;
import android.app.FragmentManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v13.app.FragmentStatePagerAdapter;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;

public class FragmentSampleActivity extends Activity {
    private ViewPagerAdapter mViewPagerAdapter;
    private ViewPager mViewPager;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        if (mViewPagerAdapter == null) {
            mViewPagerAdapter = new ViewPagerAdapter(getFragmentManager());
        }

        mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.log_pager);
        mViewPager.setAdapter(mViewPagerAdapter);
        mViewPager.setCurrentItem(0);
    }


    private class ViewPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {
        public ViewPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
            super(fm);
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return 8;
        }

        @Override
        public Fragment getItem(int position) {
            Fragment f = Fragment1.newInstance(position);
            // f.setRetainInstance(true);
            f.setHasOptionsMenu(true);
            return f;
        }
    }
}

Fragment code:

package net.solarnz.apps.fragmentsample;

import android.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;

public class Fragment1 extends Fragment {
    int mNum;

    static Fragment newInstance(int num) {
        Fragment1 f = new Fragment1();

        // Supply num input as an argument.
        Bundle args = new Bundle();
        args.putInt("num", num);
        f.setArguments(args);

        return f;
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setHasOptionsMenu(true);
        mNum = getArguments() != null ? getArguments().getInt("num") : 0;
    }

    public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_list, menu);
    }

}

Layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

            <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
                android:id="@+id/log_pager"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

Menu:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/menu_refresh"
          android:title="Refresh"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_delete"
          android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText" />
</menu>

Action menu being populated: http://i.stack.imgur.com/QFMDd.png

Action menu not being populated: http://i.stack.imgur.com/sH5Pp.png

Answer 1

The simple answer is to not use menus within fragments in the ViewPager. If you do need to use menus within the fragments, what I suggest is loading the menu's through the onCreateOptionsMenu method in the parent Activity. Obviously you will need to be able to determine which menu to show.

I was able to achieve this by using class reflection. You will also need to use the invalidateOptionsMenu method each time you switch pages. You will need a OnPageChangeListener to call this when the ViewPager changes pages.