FragmentTransaction hide/show doesn't work sometimes

Question

I have an activity with bottom navigation tabs that are changing the fragments in it. When I click back and forth on those tabs, at some point it stops working. Code executes just fine as I put some logs in it. But the fragments aren't being switched.

Code is in kotlin but it's rather straight forward

fun showTabFragment(tag: String) {
        val currentFragment: Fragment? = supportFragmentManager.fragments?.lastOrNull()
        var fragment = supportFragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(tag)
        val fragmentExists = fragment != null
        if (fragment == null) {
            when (tag) {
                TAG_LOGBOOK -> fragment = LogbookFragment()
                TAG_RECIPES -> fragment = RecipesFragment()
                TAG_PROFILE -> fragment = ProfileFragment()
                else -> fragment = MeetingPlacesFragment()
            }
        }

        val transaction = supportFragmentManager.beginTransaction()

        if (currentFragment != null) {
            Log.i("jacek", "hiding " + currentFragment.javaClass.simpleName)
            transaction.hide(currentFragment)
        }

        if (fragmentExists) {
            Log.i("jacek", "showing " + fragment.javaClass.simpleName)
            transaction.show(fragment)
        } else {
            Log.i("jacek", "adding " + fragment.javaClass.simpleName)
            transaction.add(R.id.container, fragment, tag)
        }

        transaction.commit()
    }

The fragments are quite heavy. I will try with some lightweight ones, but still that shouldn't be a problem in my opinion. Is there anything else I could try?

I'm using the latest support library - 25.2.0 Also I'm not interested in replacing the fragments as the point is to add crossfade animation without recreating them

Answer 1

You need to reuse the same instance of a fragment that you wanted to hide or show.

private fun replaceFragment(fragment: Fragment) {
    supportFragmentManager.beginTransaction().apply {
        if (fragment.isAdded) {
            show(fragment)
        } else {
            add(R.id.fmFragmentContainer, fragment)
        }

        supportFragmentManager.fragments.forEach {
            if (it != fragment && it.isAdded) {
                hide(it)
            }
        }
    }.commit()
}