How to put viewpager inside fragment in android? [

Question

I've an activity and I can show some fragments on framelayout on this activity. I would like to put a viewpager made up of fragments inside a fragment instead of a FragmentActivity. How can this be done?

Answer 1

To have a ViewPager be in a fragment, and to have fragments be the pages in that ViewPager, you need to use nested fragments. If your minSdkVersion is 17 or higher, the native implementation of fragments supports nested fragments. Otherwise, you will need to use the support-v13 (or support-v4) backport of fragments.

Then, you just need to give getChildFragmentManager() to your FragmentPagerAdapter or FragmentStatePagerAdapter:

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package com.commonsware.android.pagernested;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

public class PagerFragment extends Fragment {
  @Override
  public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater,
                           ViewGroup container,
                           Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View result=inflater.inflate(R.layout.pager, container, false);
    ViewPager pager=(ViewPager)result.findViewById(R.id.pager);

    pager.setAdapter(buildAdapter());

    return(result);
  }

  private PagerAdapter buildAdapter() {
    return(new SampleAdapter(getActivity(), getChildFragmentManager()));
  }
}

(from this sample project)