Question

why cant my fragments be added to back stack?

@Override
    public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, android.app.FragmentTransaction ft) {
        FragmentTransaction transaction = null;


            ListFragment newListFragment = new bListFragment();
            Fragment newFragment = new EntryFrag();
            transaction = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
            ft.replace(R.id.frameOne, newListFragment);
            ft.replace(R.id.frameTwo, newFragment);


        ft.addToBackStack(null);
        transaction.commit();
    }

logcat error

11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.tyczj.bowling/com.tyczj.bowling.Tabs}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: This FragmentTransaction is not allowed to be added to the back stack.
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1751)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1767)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:122)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1005)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:132)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4028)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:844)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:602)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: This FragmentTransaction is not allowed to be added to the back stack.
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.BackStackRecord.addToBackStack(BackStackRecord.java:422)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at com.tyczj.bowling.Tabs$TabListener.onTabSelected(Tabs.java:155)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at com.android.internal.app.ActionBarImpl.selectTab(ActionBarImpl.java:483)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at com.android.internal.app.ActionBarImpl.setSelectedNavigationItem(ActionBarImpl.java:303)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at com.android.internal.app.ActionBarImpl.setNavigationMode(ActionBarImpl.java:883)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at com.tyczj.bowling.Tabs.onCreate(Tabs.java:32)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1048)
11-22 12:30:41.370: E/AndroidRuntime(13989):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1715)

Answer 1

Get rid of your transaction and, instead, use the FragmentTransaction provided in the callback. There’s no need to instantiate a new FragmentTransaction when one is already handed to you. Pass in whatever you want into your call to ft.addToBackstack(); and then call ft.commit();