Add / Delete pages to ViewPager dynamically

Question

I would like to add or delete pages from my view pager dynamically. Is that possible?

Answer 1

Here's an alternative solution to this question. My adapter:

private class PagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter implements 
              ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener, TabListener {

    private List<Fragment> mFragments = new ArrayList<Fragment>();
    private ViewPager mPager;
    private ActionBar mActionBar;

    private Fragment mPrimaryItem;

    public PagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm, ViewPager vp, ActionBar ab) {
        super(fm);
        mPager = vp;
        mPager.setAdapter(this);
        mPager.setOnPageChangeListener(this);
        mActionBar = ab;
    }

    public void addTab(PartListFragment frag) {
        mFragments.add(frag);
        mActionBar.addTab(mActionBar.newTab().setTabListener(this).
                            setText(frag.getPartCategory()));
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return mFragments.get(position);
    }

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

    /** (non-Javadoc)
     * @see android.support.v4.app.FragmentStatePagerAdapter#setPrimaryItem(android.view.ViewGroup, int, java.lang.Object)
     */
    @Override
    public void setPrimaryItem(ViewGroup container, int position,
            Object object) {
        super.setPrimaryItem(container, position, object);
        mPrimaryItem = (Fragment) object;
    }

    /** (non-Javadoc)
     * @see android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter#getItemPosition(java.lang.Object)
     */
    @Override
    public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
        if (object == mPrimaryItem) {
            return POSITION_UNCHANGED;
        }
        return POSITION_NONE;
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        mPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) { }

    @Override
    public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) { }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int arg0) { }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrolled(int arg0, float arg1, int arg2) { }

    @Override
    public void onPageSelected(int position) {
        mActionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(position);
    }

    /**
     * This method removes the pages from ViewPager
     */
    public void removePages() {
        mActionBar.removeAllTabs();

                    //call to ViewPage to remove the pages
        vp.removeAllViews();
        mFragments.clear();

        //make this to update the pager
        vp.setAdapter(null);
        vp.setAdapter(pagerAdapter);
    }
}

Code to remove and add dynamically

//remove the pages. basically call to method removeAllViews from ViewPager
pagerAdapter.removePages();

pagerAdapter.addPage(pass your fragment);

After the advice of Peri Hartman, it started to work after I set null to ViewPager adapter and put the adapter again after the views removed. Before this the page 0 doesn't showed its list contents.

Answer 2

I am sure you have created an adapter by extending PageAdapter, so there is one method:

 @Override
 public void destroyItem(View collection, int position, Object view) {
           ((ViewPager) collection).removeView((View) view);
 }

For detailed example for the same, just go through this example.

Answer 3

Based on other answers and other resources I've ended with this code.

CustomPagerAdapter:

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class CustomPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

  private List<Fragment> pages = new ArrayList<>();
  private Map<Fragment, Integer> fragmentsPosition = new HashMap<>();

  private Fragment currentPrimaryItem;
  private FragmentManager fragmentManager;
  private FragmentTransaction currentTransaction;


  public CustomPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fragmentManager) {
    this.fragmentManager = fragmentManager;
  }

  @Override
  public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
    if (currentTransaction == null) {
      currentTransaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
    }

    Fragment pageFragment = pages.get(position);
    String tag = pageFragment.getArguments().getString(MainActivity.FRAGMENT_TAG_ARG);
    Fragment fragment = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(tag);

    if (fragment != null) {
      if (fragment.getId() == container.getId()) {
        currentTransaction.attach(fragment);
      }
      else {
        fragmentManager.beginTransaction().remove(fragment).commit();
        fragmentManager.executePendingTransactions();
        currentTransaction.add(container.getId(), fragment, tag);
      }
    }
    else {
      fragment = pageFragment;
      currentTransaction.add(container.getId(), fragment, tag);
    }

    if (fragment != currentPrimaryItem) {
      fragment.setMenuVisibility(false);
      fragment.setUserVisibleHint(false);
    }

    return fragment;
  }

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

  @Override
  public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
    if (currentTransaction == null) {
      currentTransaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
    }

    currentTransaction.detach((Fragment) object);
  }

  @Override
  public void setPrimaryItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
    Fragment fragment = (Fragment) object;

    if (fragment != currentPrimaryItem) {
      if (currentPrimaryItem != null) {
        currentPrimaryItem.setMenuVisibility(false);
        currentPrimaryItem.setUserVisibleHint(false);
      }

      if (fragment != null) {
        fragment.setMenuVisibility(true);
        fragment.setUserVisibleHint(true);
      }

      currentPrimaryItem = fragment;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void finishUpdate(ViewGroup container) {
    if (currentTransaction != null) {
      currentTransaction.commitAllowingStateLoss();
      currentTransaction = null;
      fragmentManager.executePendingTransactions();
    }
  }

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

  @Override
  public int getItemPosition(Object o) {
    Integer result = fragmentsPosition.get(o);

    if (result == null) {
      return PagerAdapter.POSITION_UNCHANGED;
    }

    return result;
  }

  // ---------------------------------- Page actions ----------------------------------

  public void addPage(Fragment fragment) {
    fragmentsPosition.clear();
    pages.add(fragment);
    notifyDataSetChanged();
  }

  public void removePage(int position) {
    fragmentsPosition.clear();

    Fragment pageFragment = pages.get(position);
    String tag = pageFragment.getArguments().getString(MainActivity.FRAGMENT_TAG_ARG);

    Fragment fragment = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(tag);

    if (fragment != null) {
      fragmentsPosition.put(fragment, PagerAdapter.POSITION_NONE);
    }

    for (int i = position + 1; i < pages.size(); i++) {
      pageFragment = pages.get(i);
      tag = pageFragment.getArguments().getString(MainActivity.FRAGMENT_TAG_ARG);
      fragment = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(tag);

      if (fragment != null) {
        fragmentsPosition.put(fragment, i - 1);
      }
    }

    pages.remove(position);
    notifyDataSetChanged();
  }

}

MainActivity:

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

  public static final String FRAGMENT_TAG_ARG = "tag";

  private CustomPagerAdapter mCustomPagerAdapter;

  private ViewPager mViewPager;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    mCustomPagerAdapter = new CustomPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
    mCustomPagerAdapter.addPage(MainFragment.newInstance("Main_Title"));
    mCustomPagerAdapter.addPage(SecondaryFragment.newInstance("Secondary_Title"));

    mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.container);
    mViewPager.setAdapter(mCustomPagerAdapter);
  }

}

To remove pages:

mCustomPagerAdapter.removePage(1);

MainFragment:

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainFragment extends Fragment {

  public static final String FRAGMENT_TAG = "MainFragment";

  public static MainFragment newInstance(String text) {
    return newInstance(text, FRAGMENT_TAG);
  }

  public static MainFragment newInstance(String text, String tag) {
    MainFragment fragment = new MainFragment();
    Bundle args = new Bundle();
    args.putString("text", text);
    args.putString(MainActivity.FRAGMENT_TAG_ARG, tag + "_" + fragment.hashCode());
    fragment.setArguments(args);
    return fragment;
  }

  @Override
  public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);
    TextView textView = (TextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.section_label);
    textView.setText(getArguments().getString("text"));
    return rootView;
  }

}

SecondaryFragment has the same code.

The layouts are simple ViewPager/Fragment layouts with android.support.v4.view.ViewPager with id container and Fragment TextView with id section_label.

Resources:

• dynamically add and remove view to viewpager
• How to Remove Fragment from FragmentPagerAdapter?
• https://github.com/takaaki7/ArrayPagerAdapter
• https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-pager

Answer 4

Yes, since ViewPager gets the child Views from a PagerAdapter, you can add new pages / delete pages on that, and call .notifyDataSetChanged() to reload it.

Answer 5

Yes, the code should be like this:

public int addPage(View view, int position) {
        if ((position >= 0) && (position < getSize())) {
            myPagerAdapter.mListViews.add(position, view);
            myPagerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
            return position;
        } else {
            return -1;
        }
    }

public View removePage(int position) {
        if ((position < 0) || (position >= getSize()) || (getSize()<=1)) {
            return null;
        } else {
            if (position == mPager.getCurrentItem()) {
                if(position == (getSize()-1)) {
                    mPager.setCurrentItem(position-1);
                } else if (position == 0){
                    mPager.setCurrentItem(1);
                }
            }
            View tempView = myPagerAdapter.mListViews.remove(position);
            myPagerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
            return tempView;
        }
    }

But there is a bug. If the current Item is 0, and to remove page 0, it will not refresh the screen instantly, I haven't found a solution for this.

Answer 6

First:override the pagerAdapter method "getItemPosition"

@Override
public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
        return POSITION_NONE;
    }
}

Second:remove the data bind with the adapter.and call adapter.notifydatachanged