How to solve for viewpager : The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first

android, android-viewpager, google-maps

Solution

I have also faced this problem.

You can solve it by just add single line `mViewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(3);`

public class SwipeyTabsSampleActivity extends FragmentActivity {

...

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
    mTabs = (SwipeyTabs) findViewById(R.id.swipeytabs);

    SwipeyTabsPagerAdapter adapter = new SwipeyTabsPagerAdapter(this,
            getSupportFragmentManager());
    mViewPager.setAdapter(adapter);

    mViewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(3);  <------  Add this one
}

}

Good Luck.

Problem

Into my project I am using viewpager with three tabs named `History`,`Main`,`Map`.Main activity contain Timer,stopwatch,etc. Map display the google map. and into History right now I am using only simple Textview. Viewpager flow direction : History - Main - Map I set the Main as the current item(Bydefault Main tag display).Now when I am swipe from Main > Map and Map > Main its working perfect. but when swipe from Main > History there is no error but back return from History to Main( History > Main) eclipse give me error like : ``` E/AndroidRuntime( 533): java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first. ``` And FYI I am using `intent into Map Activity`.Please check below code.Please let me know how can solve my problem. ViewPager class: ``` @Override public Fragment getItem(int position) { // return SwipeyTabFragment.newInstance(TITLES[position]); Fragment f = new Fragment(); switch (position) { case 0: f = History.newInstance(position); break; case 1: f = Main.newInstance(position); break; case 2: f = Map.newInstance(position); break; } return f; } ``` History.class: ``` public class History extends Fragment { public static Fragment newInstance(int position) { History f = new History(); Bundle args = new Bundle(); args.putInt("title", position); f.setArguments(args); return f; } @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { ViewGroup root = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.history, null); ( (TextView) root.findViewById(R.id.text)).setText("Hello"); return root; } } ``` Main.class : ``` public class Main extends Fragment implements GPSCallback { ...... public static Fragment newInstance(int position) { Main f = new Main(); Bundle args = new Bundle(); args.putInt("title", position); f.setArguments(args); return f; } @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { final ViewGroup root = (ViewGroup) inflater .inflate(R.layout.main, null); ....... return root; } ........ } ``` Map.class : ``` public class Map extends Fragment { private static final String KEY_STATE_BUNDLE = "localActivityManagerState"; private LocalActivityManager mLocalActivityManager; protected LocalActivityManager getLocalActivityManager() { return mLocalActivityManager; } @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); Bundle state = null; if (savedInstanceState != null) { state = savedInstanceState.getBundle(KEY_STATE_BUNDLE); } mLocalActivityManager = new LocalActivityManager(getActivity(), true); mLocalActivityManager.dispatchCreate(state); } public static Fragment newInstance(int position) { Map f = new Map(); Bundle args = new Bundle(); args.putInt("title", position); f.setArguments(args); return f; } @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { Intent i = new Intent(getActivity(), MapViewActivity.class); // Intent i = new Intent(getActivity(), hellogooglemap.class); Window w = mLocalActivityManager.startActivity("tag", i); View currentView=w.getDecorView(); currentView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); currentView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true); ((ViewGroup) currentView).setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS); return currentView; /*ViewGroup root = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.history, null); ( (TextView) root.findViewById(R.id.text)).setText("Hello"); return root;*/ } @Override public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) { super.onSaveInstanceState(outState); outState.putBundle(KEY_STATE_BUNDLE, mLocalActivityManager.saveInstanceState()); } @Override public void onResume() { super.onResume(); mLocalActivityManager.dispatchResume(); } @Override public void onPause() { super.onPause(); mLocalActivityManager.dispatchPause(getActivity().isFinishing()); } @Override public void onStop() { super.onStop(); mLocalActivityManager.dispatchStop(); } @Override public void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); mLocalActivityManager.dispatchDestroy(getActivity().isFinishing()); } } ``` Logcat : ``` E/AndroidRuntime( 533): java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first. E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.addViewInner(ViewGroup.java:1976) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:1871) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:1828) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:1808) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.app.NoSaveStateFrameLayout.wrap(NoSaveStateFrameLayout.java:40) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:874) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.attachFragment(FragmentManager.java:1240) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.app.BackStackRecord.run(BackStackRecord.java:612) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1416) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.executePendingTransactions(FragmentManager.java:431) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter.finishUpdate(FragmentPagerAdapter.java:139) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:804) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.completeScroll(ViewPager.java:1280) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.computeScroll(ViewPager.java:1176) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1562) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1373) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1644) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1373) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6883) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:357) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1646) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1373) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1644) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1373) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6883) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:357) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.draw(PhoneWindow.java:1862) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewRoot.draw(ViewRoot.java:1522) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1258) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1859) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) E/AndroidRuntime( 533): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) W/ActivityManager( 68): Force finishing activity com.android.gps/.viewpager.SwipeyTabsSampleActivity W/ActivityManager( 68): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{40716740 com.android.gps/.viewpager.SwipeyTabsSampleActivity} ``` Thanks. EDIT: Without intent into Map activity it works pwrfect.I mean when i am using same as history into map there is no any error.

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