Update ViewPager dynamically?

Question

I can\'t update the content in ViewPager.

What is the correct usage of methods instantiateItem() and getItem() in FragmentPagerAdapter class?

I was using onl

Answer 1

After hours of frustration while trying all the above solutions to overcome this problem and also trying many solutions on other similar questions like this, this and this which all FAILED with me to solve this problem and to make the ViewPager to destroy the old Fragment and fill the pager with the new Fragments. I have solved the problem as following:

1) Make the ViewPager class to extends FragmentPagerAdapter as following:

 public class myPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

2) Create an Item for the ViewPager that store the title and the fragment as following:

public class PagerItem {
private String mTitle;
private Fragment mFragment;


public PagerItem(String mTitle, Fragment mFragment) {
    this.mTitle = mTitle;
    this.mFragment = mFragment;
}
public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
}
public Fragment getFragment() {
    return mFragment;
}
public void setTitle(String mTitle) {
    this.mTitle = mTitle;
}

public void setFragment(Fragment mFragment) {
    this.mFragment = mFragment;
}

}

3) Make the constructor of the ViewPager take my FragmentManager instance to store it in my class as following:

private FragmentManager mFragmentManager;
private ArrayList mPagerItems;

public MyPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fragmentManager, ArrayList pagerItems) {
    super(fragmentManager);
    mFragmentManager = fragmentManager;
    mPagerItems = pagerItems;
}

4) Create a method to re-set the adapter data with the new data by deleting all the previous fragment from the fragmentManager itself directly to make the adapter to set the new fragment from the new list again as following:

public void setPagerItems(ArrayList pagerItems) {
    if (mPagerItems != null)
        for (int i = 0; i < mPagerItems.size(); i++) {
            mFragmentManager.beginTransaction().remove(mPagerItems.get(i).getFragment()).commit();
        }
    mPagerItems = pagerItems;
}

5) From the container Activity or Fragment do not re-initialize the adapter with the new data. Set the new data through the method setPagerItems with the new data as following:

ArrayList pagerItems = new ArrayList();
    pagerItems.add(new PagerItem("Fragment1", new MyFragment1()));
    pagerItems.add(new PagerItem("Fragment2", new MyFragment2()));

    mPagerAdapter.setPagerItems(pagerItems);
    mPagerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

I hope it helps.