Android: limit fragments loading with a viewPager

android, android-fragments, android-viewpager, fragmentpageradapter

Solution

The minimum for `OffscreenPageLimit` is set to `1` in the `ViewPager` source code:

private static final int DEFAULT_OFFSCREEN_PAGES = 1;
....
public void setOffscreenPageLimit(int limit) {
    if (limit < DEFAULT_OFFSCREEN_PAGES) {
        Log.w(TAG, "Requested offscreen page limit " + limit + " too small; defaulting to " +
                DEFAULT_OFFSCREEN_PAGES);
        limit = DEFAULT_OFFSCREEN_PAGES;
    }
    if (limit != mOffscreenPageLimit) {
        mOffscreenPageLimit = limit;
        populate();
    }
}

Problem

I have 3 fragments that are managed by an FragmentPagerAdapter, set to a viewPager. I want to load fragments one by one, but when the onCreate method of FragmentActivity is executed, the 2 first fragments are executed (onCreateView method). I have tried to limit fragments loading with the setOffscreenPageLimit method but nothing change. ``` mPagerAdapter = new MyPagerAdapter(super.getSupportFragmentManager(), fragments); pager = (ViewPager) super.findViewById(R.id.tabviewpager); pager.setOffscreenPageLimit(0); pager.setAdapter(this.mPagerAdapter); ``` Thank you for your help .

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