savedInstanceState when restoring fragment from back stack

Question

Can I use savedInstanceState() to save the state when removing a fragment, then restore the state when I pop the fragment off the back stack? When I restore the fr

Answer 1

FWIW, I hit this as well, but in my case onSaveInstanceState was called properly and I pushed in my state data when a new activity fragment was brought up on the smartphone. Same as you, the onActivityCreated was called w/ savedInstanceState always null. IMHO, I think it's a bug.

I worked around it by creating a static MyApplication state and putting the data there for the equivalent of "global variables"...