Question

I’m using the v4 compatibility ViewPager in Android. My FragmentActivity has a bunch of data which is to be displayed in different ways on different pages in my ViewPager. So far I just have 3 instances of the same ListFragment, but in the future I will have 3 instances of different ListFragments. The ViewPager is on a vertical phone screen, the lists are not side-by-side.

Now a button on the ListFragment starts an separate full-page activity (via the FragmentActivity), which returns and FragmentActivity modifies the data, saves it, then attempts to update all views in its ViewPager. It is here, where I am stuck.

public class ProgressMainActivity extends FragmentActivity
{
    MyAdapter mAdapter;
    ViewPager mPager;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
    ...
        mAdapter = new MyAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());

        mPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
        mPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
    {
        ...
        updateFragments();
        ...
    }
    public void updateFragments()
    {
        //Attempt 1:
        //mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        //mPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);

        //Attempt 2:
        //HomeListFragment fragment = (HomeListFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(mAdapter.fragId[0]);
        //fragment.updateDisplay();
    }

    public static class MyAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter implements
         TitleProvider
    {
      int[] fragId = {0,0,0,0,0};
      public MyAdapter(FragmentManager fm)
      {
         super(fm);
      }
      @Override
      public String getTitle(int position){
         return titles[position];
      }
      @Override
      public int getCount(){
         return titles.length;
      }

      @Override
      public Fragment getItem(int position)
      {

         Fragment frag = HomeListFragment.newInstance(position);
         //Attempt 2:
         //fragId[position] = frag.getId();
         return frag;
      }

      @Override
      public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
         return POSITION_NONE; //To make notifyDataSetChanged() do something
     }
   }

    public class HomeListFragment extends ListFragment
    {
    ...
        public static HomeListFragment newInstance(int num)
        {
            HomeListFragment f = new HomeListFragment();
            ...
            return f;
        }
   ...

Now as you can see, my first attempt was to notifyDataSetChanged on the entire FragmentPagerAdapter, and this showed to update the data sometimes, but others I got an IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState.

My second attempt involed trying to call an update function in my ListFragment, but getId in getItem returned 0. As per the docs I tried by

acquiring a reference to the Fragment from FragmentManager, using
findFragmentById() or findFragmentByTag()

but I don’t know the tag or id of my Fragments! I have an android:id=”@+id/viewpager” for ViewPager, and a android:id=”@android:id/list” for my ListView in the ListFragment layout, but I don’t think these are useful.

So, how can I either:
a) update the entire ViewPager safely in one go (ideally returning the user to the page he was on before) – it is ok that the user see the view change.
Or preferably,
b) call a function in each affected ListFragment to update the ListView manually.

Any help would be gratefully accepted!

Answer 1

Try to record the tag each time a Fragement is instantiated.

public class MPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
    private Map<Integer, String> mFragmentTags;
    private FragmentManager mFragmentManager;

    public MPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
        mFragmentManager = fm;
        mFragmentTags = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 10;
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return Fragment.instantiate(mContext, AFragment.class.getName(), null);
    }

    @Override
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
        Object obj = super.instantiateItem(container, position);
        if (obj instanceof Fragment) {
            // record the fragment tag here.
            Fragment f = (Fragment) obj;
            String tag = f.getTag();
            mFragmentTags.put(position, tag);
        }
        return obj;
    }

    public Fragment getFragment(int position) {
        String tag = mFragmentTags.get(position);
        if (tag == null)
            return null;
        return mFragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(tag);
    }
}