I'm using the v4 compatibility ViewPager in Android. My FragmentActivity has a bunch of data which is to be displayed in different ways on different pages in my ViewPager. So far I just have 3 instances of the same ListFragment, but in the future I will have 3 instances of different ListFragments. The ViewPager is on a vertical phone screen, the lists are not side-by-side.
Now a button on the ListFragment starts an separate full-page activity (via the FragmentActivity), which returns and FragmentActivity modifies the data, saves it, then attempts to update all views in its ViewPager. It is here, where I am stuck.
public class ProgressMainActivity extends FragmentActivity
{
MyAdapter mAdapter;
ViewPager mPager;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
...
mAdapter = new MyAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
mPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
mPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);
}
@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
{
...
updateFragments();
...
}
public void updateFragments()
{
//Attempt 1:
//mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
//mPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);
//Attempt 2:
//HomeListFragment fragment = (HomeListFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(mAdapter.fragId[0]);
//fragment.updateDisplay();
}
public static class MyAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter implements
TitleProvider
{
int[] fragId = {0,0,0,0,0};
public MyAdapter(FragmentManager fm)
{
super(fm);
}
@Override
public String getTitle(int position){
return titles[position];
}
@Override
public int getCount(){
return titles.length;
}
@Override
public Fragment getItem(int position)
{
Fragment frag = HomeListFragment.newInstance(position);
//Attempt 2:
//fragId[position] = frag.getId();
return frag;
}
@Override
public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
return POSITION_NONE; //To make notifyDataSetChanged() do something
}
}
public class HomeListFragment extends ListFragment
{
...
public static HomeListFragment newInstance(int num)
{
HomeListFragment f = new HomeListFragment();
...
return f;
}
...
Now as you can see, my first attempt was to notifyDataSetChanged on the entire FragmentPagerAdapter, and this showed to update the data sometimes, but others I got an IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState.
My second attempt involed trying to call an update function in my ListFragment, but getId in getItem returned 0. As per the docs I tried by
acquiring a reference to the Fragment from FragmentManager, using findFragmentById() or findFragmentByTag()
but I don't know the tag or id of my Fragments! I have an android:id="@+id/viewpager" for ViewPager, and a android:id="@android:id/list" for my ListView in the ListFragment layout, but I don't think these are useful.
So, how can I either: a) update the entire ViewPager safely in one go (ideally returning the user to the page he was on before) - it is ok that the user see the view change. Or preferably, b) call a function in each affected ListFragment to update the ListView manually.
Any help would be gratefully accepted!
Barkside's answer works with FragmentPagerAdapter
but doesn't work with FragmentStatePagerAdapter
, because it doesn't set tags on fragments it passes to FragmentManager
.
With FragmentStatePagerAdapter
it seems we can get by, using its instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position)
call. It returns reference to fragment at position position
. If FragmentStatePagerAdapter
already holds reference to fragment in question, instantiateItem
just returns reference to that fragment, and doesn't call getItem()
to instantiate it again.
So, suppose, I'm currently looking at fragment #50, and want to access fragment #49. Since they are close, there's a good chance the #49 will be already instantiated. So,
ViewPager pager = findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
FragmentStatePagerAdapter a = (FragmentStatePagerAdapter) pager.getAdapter();
MyFragment f49 = (MyFragment) a.instantiateItem(pager, 49)