How to determine when Fragment becomes visible in ViewPager

Question

Problem: Fragment onResume() in ViewPager is fired before the fragment becomes actually visible.

For example, I have 2 fragments with

Answer 1

I had the same issue. ViewPager executes other fragment life cycle events and I could not change that behavior. I wrote a simple pager using fragments and available animations. SimplePager

Answer 2

Another solution posted here overriding setPrimaryItem in the pageradapter by kris larson almost worked for me. But this method is called multiple times for each setup. Also I got NPE from views, etc. in the fragment as this is not ready the first few times this method is called. With the following changes this worked for me:

private int mCurrentPosition = -1;

@Override
public void setPrimaryItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
    super.setPrimaryItem(container, position, object);

    if (position == mCurrentPosition) {
        return;
    }

    if (object instanceof MyWhizBangFragment) {
        MyWhizBangFragment fragment = (MyWhizBangFragment) object;

        if (fragment.isResumed()) {
            mCurrentPosition = position;
            fragment.doTheThingYouNeedToDoOnBecomingVisible();
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

Note that setUserVisibleHint(false) is not called on activity / fragment stop. You'll still need to check start/stop to properly register/unregister any listeners/etc.

Also, you'll get setUserVisibleHint(false) if your fragment starts in a non-visible state; you don't want to unregister there since you've never registered before in that case.

@Override
public void onStart() {
    super.onStart();

    if (getUserVisibleHint()) {
        // register
    }
}

@Override
public void onStop() {
    if (getUserVisibleHint()) {
        // unregister
    }

    super.onStop();
}

@Override
public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
    super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);

    if (isVisibleToUser && isResumed()) {
        // register

        if (!mHasBeenVisible) {
            mHasBeenVisible = true;
        }
    } else if (mHasBeenVisible){
        // unregister
    }
}

Answer 4

package com.example.com.ui.fragment;


import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import com.example.com.R;

public class SubscribeFragment extends Fragment {

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_subscribe, container, false);
        return view;
    }

    @Override
    public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
        super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);

        if (isVisibleToUser) {
            // called here
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onViewCreated(View view, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);
    }
}

Answer 5

Detecting by focused view!

This works for me

public static boolean isFragmentVisible(Fragment fragment) {
    Activity activity = fragment.getActivity();
    View focusedView = fragment.getView().findFocus();
    return activity != null
            && focusedView != null
            && focusedView == activity.getWindow().getDecorView().findFocus();
}

Answer 6

We have a special case with MVP where the fragment needs to notify the presenter that the view has become visible, and the presenter is injected by Dagger in fragment.onAttach().

setUserVisibleHint() is not enough, we've detected 3 different cases that needed to be addressed (onAttach() is mentioned so that you know when the presenter is available):

1. Fragment has just been created. The system makes the following calls:

   setUserVisibleHint() // before fragment's lifecycle calls, so presenter is null
   onAttach()
   ...
   onResume()
   

2. Fragment already created and home button is pressed. When restoring the app to foreground, this is called:

   onResume()
   

3. Orientation change:

   onAttach() // presenter available
   onResume()
   setUserVisibleHint()
   

We only want the visibility hint to get to the presenter once, so this is how we do it:

@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_list, container, false);
    setHasOptionsMenu(true);

    if (savedInstanceState != null) {
        lastOrientation = savedInstanceState.getInt(STATE_LAST_ORIENTATION,
              getResources().getConfiguration().orientation);
    } else {
        lastOrientation = getResources().getConfiguration().orientation;
    }

    return root;
}

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    presenter.onResume();

    int orientation = getResources().getConfiguration().orientation;
    if (orientation == lastOrientation) {
        if (getUserVisibleHint()) {
            presenter.onViewBecomesVisible();
        }
    }
    lastOrientation = orientation;
}

@Override
public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
    super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);
    if (presenter != null && isResumed() && isVisibleToUser) {
        presenter.onViewBecomesVisible();
    }
}

@Override public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
    outState.putInt(STATE_LAST_ORIENTATION, lastOrientation);
}