reusing fragments in a fragmentpageradapter

Question

I have a viewpager that pages through fragments. My FragmentPagerAdapter subclass creates a new fragment in the getItem method which seems wasteful. Is there a FragmentPagerAdapter equivalent to the convertView in the listAdapter that will enable me to reuse fragments that have already been created? My code is below.

public class ProfilePagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

    ArrayList<Profile> mProfiles = new ArrayList<Profile>();

    public ProfilePagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    /**
     * Adding a new profile object created a new page in the pager this adapter is set to.
     * @param profile
     */
    public void addProfile(Profile profile){
        mProfiles.add(profile);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return mProfiles.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return new ProfileFragment(mProfiles.get(position));
    }
}

Answer 1

The FragmentPagerAdapter already caches the Fragments for you. Each fragment is assigned a tag, and then the FragmentPagerAdapter tries to call findFragmentByTag. It only calls getItem if the result from findFragmentByTag is null. So you shouldn't have to cache the fragments yourself.