FragmentPagerAdapter inside Fragment

Question

I'm having a bit of trouble implementing a design based around multiple ViewPagers.

At a high level, I have a FragmentActivity with just a FrameLayout as it's content. I have 3 different Fragments that I want to display. All 3 are full screen and only 1 will be used at a time.

Fragment 1 is a basic fragment with some TextViews and ImageViews. Fragment 2 has a ViewPager and a FragmentPagerAdapter that feeds it several simple fragments. Fragment 3 has a ViewPager and a FragmentPagerAdapter that feeds it several simple fragments (that are different from Fragment 2)

In my FragmentActivity onCreate() I get the FragmentManager and begin a transaction to replace whatever is in my FrameLayout with a new instance of Fragment 2.

At this point everything is working as expected. My ViewPager in Fragment 2 works perfectly.

Now I have a menu option that replaces the Fragment 2 in my FrameLayout with a new instance of Fragment 3. This also works fine.

The problem arises when I try to put Fragment 2 back into the FrameLayout with another replace transaction. I see my PagerIndicater at the top, but my pages are blank.

I've tried just creating a new instance of my Fragment 2 and calling a replace transaction. I've also tried setting a tag on my Fragments when I call replace and adding a findFragmentByTag check before my replace instead of creating a new instance. Both gave me the same result of blank pages after my second replace.

For reference My first design was simply a FragmentActivity with a ViewPager and a ViewIndicater. I only had Fragment 2 and Fragment 3 from my description above and a menu option to switch between them. To switch I had 2 different FragmentPagerAdapters defined and just called ViewPager.setAdapter to set the selected FragmentPagerAdapter. This was working perfectly, but now I need a new top level Fragment that isn't using ViewPager at all. This is why I decided to move my ViewPagers out into their own Fragments. My idea being that I would just swap in my fragments to a FrameLayout.

I don't have my code in front of me right now so I can't post any, but I'll add some code to my question tomorrow to help facilitate answers.

Answer 1

This question is a possible duplicate of Navigating back to FragmentPagerAdapter -> fragments are empty.

If your app can handle it (API 17), use getChildFragmentManager(). This problem seems to occur when using a Fragment to host your ViewPager and using FragmentPagerAdapter. Changing to FragmentStatePagerAdapter seemed to fix the problem as well, but I still think using getChildFragmentManager() is the smartest thing to do.