Getting the current Fragment instance in the viewpager

Question

Below is my code which has 3 Fragment classes each embedded with each of the 3 tabs on ViewPager. I have a menu option. As shown in the onOpt

Answer 1

This is the only way I don't get NullPointerException for the instance variables of that particular fragment classes. This might be helpful for others who stuck at the same thing. In the onOptionsItemSelected(), I coded the below way:

if(viewPager.getCurrentItem() == 0) {
    FragmentClass1 frag1 = (FragmentClass1)viewPager
                            .getAdapter()
                            .instantiateItem(viewPager, viewPager.getCurrentItem());
    frag1.updateList(text); 
} else if(viewPager.getCurrentItem() == 1) {
    FragmentClass2 frag2 = (FragRecentApps)viewPager
                            .getAdapter()
                            .instantiateItem(viewPager, viewPager.getCurrentItem());
    frag2.updateList(text);
}