How do I get the child View of a ViewPager at a given item

Question

I'll keep the question as short and simple as humanly possible.

View activeView = mViewPager.getChildAt(mViewPager.getCurrentItem()); 

returns the child view when the current item is 0 and 1. But if the current item is 2 it returns null . Why is that?

edit: Let me rephrase myself. How do I get the child View of a ViewPager at any given item position?

Answer 1

It turns out getChildAt(int) was not the right approach. What I did was retrieve the Adapter used in the ViewPager and found my views from there:

adapter = mViewPager.getAdapter(); Fragment fragment = adapter.getItem(mViewPager.getCurrentItem());  View activeView = fragment.getView(); 

As already noted the viewPager will only contain the current child and adjacent children(currentItem() +/- 1) unless otherwise specified through setOffscreenPageLimit()