Question

I have a ViewPager within a ViewPager and I am getting this exception

09-07 18:30:26.392: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(841): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Recursive entry to executePendingTransactions
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1331)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.executePendingTransactions(FragmentManager.java:422)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter.finishUpdate(FragmentPagerAdapter.java:86)
    at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:453)
    at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.onAttachedToWindow(ViewPager.java:563)
    at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:7974)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1857)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1862)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1862)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.addViewInner(ViewGroup.java:2968)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:2824)
    at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.addView(ViewPager.java:537)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:2781)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:2761)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:848)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1041)
    at android.support.v4.app.BackStackRecord.run(BackStackRecord.java:616)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1359)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.executePendingTransactions(FragmentManager.java:422)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter.finishUpdate(FragmentPagerAdapter.java:86)
    at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:453)
    at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.onAttachedToWindow(ViewPager.java:563)
    at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:7974)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1857)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1862)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1862)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1862)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:1862)
    at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:726)
    at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1944)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:126)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3997)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:841)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:599)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I am not really sure where this error comes from and I don’t know too much about the FragmentManager. Do I need to flush the transactions or something like that? Or is a viewPager within a ViewPager impossible? And yes I know there are other ways to do this but I want the snappness and the scrolling for free. Also I would like to understand how it actually works.

Answer 1

Recently I encountered the same problem and after a little investigation I was surprised to discover that you simply can’t embed one fragment into another. Here you are executing one fragment transaction in another one. It’s just not allowed.

New version of Support Library v4 (or Android 4.2, of course) resolves this problem. See the answer below.

Update
getChildFragmentManager () added to tackle the above mentioned issue.