Android setUserVisibleHint never gets called?

Question

I need to know when my fragment is visible, I was using setMenuVisibility but I now know it's not a good option. I'm trying to implement setUserVisibleHint on a FragmentStatePagerAdapter Fragment, however it never gets called.

import android.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Toast;


public class Contacts extends Fragment {
        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_screen_contacts, container, false);
            return view;
        }


    @Override
    public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
        super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);
        Log.d("MyFragment", "This never shows up.");
        Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Neither does this", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
}

I'm running API level 19, and set a minimum API Level of 15 on my AndroidManifest. Is there anything else to do to get setUserVisibleHint, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

setUserVisibleHint is available so that you have a way to tell the system the fragment is in fact not visible and not the other way around, when you are doing some fancy fragment transactions that specifically hide it. You can't use it to determine visibility and it defaults to true.

You should use the isVisible call to know if the fragment is visible and onAttach of the fragment or the root view classes to get callbacks when it's been attached to the activity or the respective root views.