Duplicate ID, tag null, or parent id with another fragment for com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment

Question

I have an application with three tabs.

Each tab has its own layout .xml file. The main.xml has its own map fragment. It\'s the one that shows up when the application

Answer 1

I have lost hours today to find the reason, fortunately this issue is not because of MapFragment implementation, fnfortunately, this does not work because nested fragments are only supported through support library from rev 11.

My implementation has an activity with actionbar (in tabbed mode) with two tabs (no viewpager), one having the map and the other having a list of entries. Of course I've been quite naive to use MapFragment inside my tab-fragments, et voila the app crashed everytime I switched back to map-tab.

( The same issue I also would have in case my tab-fragment would inflate any layout containing any other fragment ).

One option is to use the MapView (instead of MapFragment), with some overhead though ( see MapView Docs as drop-in replacement in the layout.xml, another option is to use support-library up from rev. 11 but then take programmatic approach since nested fragments are neither supported via layout. Or just working around programmatically by explicitely destroying the fragment (like in the answer from Matt / Vidar), btw: same effect is achieved using the MapView (option 1).

But actually, I did not want to loose the map everytime I tab away, that is, I wanted to keep it in memory and cleanup only upon activity close, so I decided to simply hide/show the map while tabbing, see FragmentTransaction / hide