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Asked: 2026-06-15T07:22:45+00:00

Here is what I would like my application to do on a tablet. Fragment

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Here is what I would like my application to do on a tablet.
Fragment (0) has some menu that would display fragments (1)…(n) like this:

-----------------
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |
|(0)| X | X | X |
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |
-----------------
 becomes
-----------------
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |
|(0)|(1)| X | X |
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |
-----------------
 and then
-----------------
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |
|(0)|(2)|(1)| X |
|   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |
-----------------
 etc...

Fragment0 never moves, the other ones are shifted to the right. Fragments going off the edge to the right will be destroyed.

So I setup my XML layout with a horizontal LinearLayout and containing 4 FrameLayout with the proper IDs (fragment0… fragment3)

I can instantiate and display fragment0 and then fragment1, but I am not able to shift it to the right after, I get:

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(343): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't change container ID of fragment ...

The only related questions I have found are this one and that one, tried all the different solutions offered with no luck.

Tried FragmentTransaction.remove() followed by .add(), tried .replace(), tried them in different orders and to commit half-way through (even trying to commit twice as somebody suggested), tried to call addToBackStack() … still no luck.

Question is whether it is possible to move the fragments like this with a FragmentTransaction. If yes, what am I doing wrong (and bonus, is it possible to animate that?). If no, what would be the proper way to implement this?

Note that I don’t want to re-instantiate the fragments every time (each do some queries on the web that can take some time). It’s possible to extract all the data back to the activity to recreate one, but I’d rather not do that if possible…

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know if this is quite what you want but I made a little sample regarding your problem. Basically you’ll be doing the right shifting using the layout file, having a wrapper container for each of those shifting fragments. The code sample is a little to big for an answer so I’ve posted it into a gist that you can find here. In that sample press each of the ListFragment‘s items(Fragment 1 -> Fragment 2 -> fragment 3) to see the behavior.

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