BottomNavigationView - How to avoid recreation of Fragments and reuse them

Question

I would like to make a bottom navigation bar in my project. Every view has it's own fragment. The problem is that every time i click on the button to change the view for example from recents to favorites it creates new fragment with completely new states(e.g. scroll position, text changed whatever my fragment contains). I know that in official Android documentation there was written that bottom navigation bar should reset the task states, but i think it is too uncomfortable for users. I would like to have kind of similar functionality like instagram that you change from feed to explore and back to feed the scroll position the image caches everything remains saved. I tried almost every way to solve this problem the only thing that worked is by setting visibility GONE and setting visibility VISIBLE according to situation but i understand that it is not RIGHT way there should be better way of doing this and i am not talking about manually saving needed instances. I followed almost every tutorial about bottom nav fragments but the interesting thing is that no one is interested to make it use without calling new every time.

FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.replace(R.id.frameLayout, FirstFragment.newInstance());
fragmentTransaction.commit();

bottomNavigationView = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation);
bottomNavigationView.setOnNavigationItemSelectedListener(new BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {
        Fragment fragment = null;
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.menu_dialer:
                fragment = FirstFragment.newInstance();
                break;
            case R.id.menu_email:
                fragment = SecondFragment.newInstance();
                break;
            case R.id.menu_map:
                fragment = ThirdFragment.newInstance();
                break;
        }
        if (fragment != null) {
            FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
            fragmentTransaction.replace(R.id.frameLayout, fragment);
            fragmentTransaction.commit();
        }
        return true;
    }
});

I also tried the onAttach and Deattach solutions but again no success.

VIDEO LINK : new i tried Nino Handler version it only works when i tap on the same fragment button

Maybe it is connected that i am using canary version or something wrong in my gradle dependencies?

NEW UPDATES:

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private TextView mTextMessage;


    private static final String TAG_FRAGMENT_ONE = "fragment_one";
    private static final String TAG_FRAGMENT_TWO = "fragment_two";

    private FragmentManager fragmentManager;
    private Fragment currentFragment;

    String TAG = "babken";
    private BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener mOnNavigationItemSelectedListener
            = new BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {

        Fragment fragment = null;
        @Override
        public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {
            switch (item.getItemId()) {
                case R.id.navigation_home:
                   fragment = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(TAG_FRAGMENT_ONE);
                    if (fragment == null) {
                        fragment = FragmentFirst.newInstance();
                    }
                    replaceFragment(fragment, TAG_FRAGMENT_ONE);

                    break;
                case R.id.navigation_dashboard:

                     fragment = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(TAG_FRAGMENT_TWO);
                    if (fragment == null) {
                        fragment = FragmentSecond.newInstance();
                    }
                    replaceFragment(fragment, TAG_FRAGMENT_TWO);

                    break;
            }
            return true;

        }
    };

    private void replaceFragment(@NonNull Fragment fragment, @NonNull String tag) {
        if (!fragment.equals(currentFragment)) {
            fragmentManager
                    .beginTransaction()
                    .replace(R.id.armen, fragment, tag)
                    .commit();
            currentFragment = fragment;
        }
    }
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
        Fragment fragment = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(TAG_FRAGMENT_ONE);
        if (fragment == null) {
            fragment = FragmentFirst.newInstance();
        }
        replaceFragment(fragment, TAG_FRAGMENT_ONE);
        BottomNavigationView navigation = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation);
        navigation.setOnNavigationItemSelectedListener(mOnNavigationItemSelectedListener);
    }

}

Answer 1

I had similar issue, but this code solved my problem.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

final Fragment fragment1 = new HomeFragment();
final Fragment fragment2 = new DashboardFragment();
final Fragment fragment3 = new NotificationsFragment();
final FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
Fragment active = fragment1;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);


    BottomNavigationView navigation = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation);
    navigation.setOnNavigationItemSelectedListener(mOnNavigationItemSelectedListener);

    fm.beginTransaction().add(R.id.main_container, fragment3, "3").hide(fragment3).commit();
    fm.beginTransaction().add(R.id.main_container, fragment2, "2").hide(fragment2).commit();
    fm.beginTransaction().add(R.id.main_container,fragment1, "1").commit();

}


private BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener mOnNavigationItemSelectedListener
        = new BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.navigation_home:
                fm.beginTransaction().hide(active).show(fragment1).commit();
                active = fragment1;
                return true;

            case R.id.navigation_dashboard:
                fm.beginTransaction().hide(active).show(fragment2).commit();
                active = fragment2;
                return true;

            case R.id.navigation_notifications:
                fm.beginTransaction().hide(active).show(fragment3).commit();
                active = fragment3;
                return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
};

Hope this helps.

source : BottomNavigationView With Fragments (No fragment recreation).