FragmentTransaction is not allowed to be added to back stack?

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

You are using Action Bar tabs and you want the Fragments bound to the tabs to be added to the back stack, usually that is forbidden (and it is understandable inmost cases). Action Bar Tabs are not allowed to be added to the Back Stack. If your application is tab based it is ok, but if you display tabs only in particular situations and in others you hide them this behavior is not good (and I do not understand why Google does not let it).....maybe you need the first tab to be added to the back stack (my situation), but in such a case onTabSelected will not allow you to add the transaction to the back stack, it will throw an exception because the addToBackStack is blocked inside this method call (there is the method disallowAddToBackStack inside FragmentTransaction that does exactly that...I totally disagree with that constraint).

Answer 2

Im not getting why you are instantiating a new FragmentTransaction inside your function, just use the one passed as a parameter. I didnt test this, but im pretty sure that it should work.

@Override
public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, android.app.FragmentTransaction ft) {
        ListFragment newListFragment = new bListFragment();
        Fragment newFragment = new EntryFrag();
        ft.replace(R.id.frameOne, newListFragment);
        ft.replace(R.id.frameTwo, newFragment);
        ft.addToBackStack(null);
        ft.commit();
}