ViewPager and fragments — what's the right way to store fragment's state?

Question

Fragments seem to be very nice for separation of UI logic into some modules. But along with ViewPager its lifecycle is still misty to me. So Guru thoughts are b

Answer 1

To get the fragments after orientation change you have to use the .getTag().

    getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("android:switcher:" + viewPagerId + ":" + positionOfItemInViewPager)

For a bit more handling i wrote my own ArrayList for my PageAdapter to get the fragment by viewPagerId and the FragmentClass at any Position:

public class MyPageAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter implements Serializable {
private final String logTAG = MyPageAdapter.class.getName() + ".";

private ArrayList fragmentPages;

public MyPageAdapter(FragmentManager fm, ArrayList fragments) {
    super(fm);
    fragmentPages = fragments;
}

@Override
public Fragment getItem(int position) {
    return this.fragmentPages.get(position).getFragment();
}

@Override
public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
    return this.fragmentPages.get(position).getPageTitle();
}

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


public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
    //benötigt, damit bei notifyDataSetChanged alle Fragemnts refrehsed werden

    Log.d(logTAG, object.getClass().getName());
    return POSITION_NONE;
}

public Fragment getFragment(int position) {
    return getItem(position);
}

public String getTag(int position, int viewPagerId) {
    //getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("android:switcher:" + R.id.shares_detail_activity_viewpager + ":" + myViewPager.getCurrentItem())

    return "android:switcher:" + viewPagerId + ":" + position;
}

public MyPageBuilder getPageBuilder(String pageTitle, int icon, int selectedIcon, Fragment frag) {
    return new MyPageBuilder(pageTitle, icon, selectedIcon, frag);
}


public static class MyPageBuilder {

    private Fragment fragment;

    public Fragment getFragment() {
        return fragment;
    }

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

    private String pageTitle;

    public String getPageTitle() {
        return pageTitle;
    }

    public void setPageTitle(String pageTitle) {
        this.pageTitle = pageTitle;
    }

    private int icon;

    public int getIconUnselected() {
        return icon;
    }

    public void setIconUnselected(int iconUnselected) {
        this.icon = iconUnselected;
    }

    private int iconSelected;

    public int getIconSelected() {
        return iconSelected;
    }

    public void setIconSelected(int iconSelected) {
        this.iconSelected = iconSelected;
    }

    public MyPageBuilder(String pageTitle, int icon, int selectedIcon, Fragment frag) {
        this.pageTitle = pageTitle;
        this.icon = icon;
        this.iconSelected = selectedIcon;
        this.fragment = frag;
    }
}

public static class MyPageArrayList extends ArrayList {
    private final String logTAG = MyPageArrayList.class.getName() + ".";

    public MyPageBuilder get(Class cls) {
        // Fragment über FragmentClass holen
        for (MyPageBuilder item : this) {
            if (item.fragment.getClass().getName().equalsIgnoreCase(cls.getName())) {
                return super.get(indexOf(item));
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    public String getTag(int viewPagerId, Class cls) {
        // Tag des Fragment unabhängig vom State z.B. nach bei Orientation change
        for (MyPageBuilder item : this) {
            if (item.fragment.getClass().getName().equalsIgnoreCase(cls.getName())) {
                return "android:switcher:" + viewPagerId + ":" + indexOf(item);
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

So just create a MyPageArrayList with the fragments:

    myFragPages = new MyPageAdapter.MyPageArrayList();

    myFragPages.add(new MyPageAdapter.MyPageBuilder(
            getString(R.string.widget_config_data_frag),
            R.drawable.ic_sd_storage_24dp,
            R.drawable.ic_sd_storage_selected_24dp,
            new WidgetDataFrag()));

    myFragPages.add(new MyPageAdapter.MyPageBuilder(
            getString(R.string.widget_config_color_frag),
            R.drawable.ic_color_24dp,
            R.drawable.ic_color_selected_24dp,
            new WidgetColorFrag()));

    myFragPages.add(new MyPageAdapter.MyPageBuilder(
            getString(R.string.widget_config_textsize_frag),
            R.drawable.ic_settings_widget_24dp,
            R.drawable.ic_settings_selected_24dp,
            new WidgetTextSizeFrag()));

and add them to the viewPager:

    mAdapter = new MyPageAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager(), myFragPages);
    myViewPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);

after this you can get after orientation change the correct fragment by using its class:

        WidgetDataFrag dataFragment = (WidgetDataFrag) getSupportFragmentManager()
            .findFragmentByTag(myFragPages.getTag(myViewPager.getId(), WidgetDataFrag.class));