How to determine when Fragment becomes visible in

Question

Problem: Fragment onResume() in ViewPager is fired before the fragment becomes actually visible.

For example, I have 2 fragments with ViewPager and FragmentPagerAdapter. The second fragment is only available for authorized users and I need to ask the user to log in when the fragment becomes visible (using an alert dialog).

BUT the ViewPager creates the second fragment when the first is visible in order to cache the second fragment and makes it visible when the user starts swiping.

So the onResume() event is fired in the second fragment long before it becomes visible. That's why I'm trying to find an event which fires when the second fragment becomes visible to show a dialog at the appropriate moment.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

package com.example.com.ui.fragment;


import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import com.example.com.R;

public class SubscribeFragment extends Fragment {

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_subscribe, container, false);
        return view;
    }

    @Override
    public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
        super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);

        if (isVisibleToUser) {
            // called here
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onViewCreated(View view, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);
    }
}

Answer 2

I overrode the Count method of the associated FragmentStatePagerAdapter and have it return the total count minus the number of pages to hide:

 public class MyAdapter : Android.Support.V13.App.FragmentStatePagerAdapter
 {   
     private List<Fragment> _fragments;

     public int TrimmedPages { get; set; }

     public MyAdapter(Android.App.FragmentManager fm) : base(fm) { }

     public MyAdapter(Android.App.FragmentManager fm, List<Android.App.Fragment> fragments) : base(fm)
     {
         _fragments = fragments;

         TrimmedPages = 0;
     }

     public override int Count
     {
         //get { return _fragments.Count; }
         get { return _fragments.Count - TrimmedPages; }
     }
 }

So, if there are 3 fragments initially added to the ViewPager, and only the first 2 should be shown until some condition is met, override the page count by setting TrimmedPages to 1 and it should only show the first two pages.

This works good for pages on the end, but wont really help for ones on the beginning or middle (though there are plenty of ways of doing this).

Answer 3

Add following Code inside fragment

@Override
public void setMenuVisibility(final boolean visible) 
 {
    super.setMenuVisibility(visible);
    if (visible && isResumed()) 
     {

     }
}