How to properly handle screen rotation with a ViewPager and nested fragments?

Question

I\'ve got this activity, which holds a fragment. This fragment layout consists of a view pager with several fragments (two, actually).

When the view pager is created, it

Answer 1

I had the same issue - I assume you're subclassing FragmentPagerAdapter for your pager adapter (as getItem() is specific to FragmentPagerAdapter).

My solution was to instead subclass PagerAdapter and handle the fragment creation/deletion yourself (reimplementing some of the FragmentPagerAdapter code):

public class ListPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {
    FragmentManager fragmentManager;
    Fragment[] fragments;

    public ListPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm){
        fragmentManager = fm;
        fragments = new Fragment[5];
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
        assert(0 <= position && position < fragments.length);
        FragmentTransaction trans = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
        trans.remove(fragments[position]);
        trans.commit();
        fragments[position] = null;
}

    @Override
    public Fragment instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position){
        Fragment fragment = getItem(position);
        FragmentTransaction trans = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
        trans.add(container.getId(),fragment,"fragment:"+position);
        trans.commit();
        return fragment;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return fragments.length;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isViewFromObject(View view, Object fragment) {
        return ((Fragment) fragment).getView() == view;
    }

    public Fragment getItem(int position){
        assert(0 <= position && position < fragments.length);
        if(fragments[position] == null){
            fragments[position] = ; //make your fragment here
        }
        return fragments[position];
    }
}

Hope this helps.