Refresh/Reload/Re instantiate a Fragment in an android tab system

android, android-fragments, android-viewpager, tabs

Solution

I would use something similar to the following:

public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity implements ActionBar.TabListener {

    private ViewPager ViewPager;
    private TabsPagerAdapter SectionsPagerAdapter;
    private ActionBar actionBar;

    private String[] tabs = { "Event Details", "Line-up", "Donations", };

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

     // Initialisation
        ViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
        actionBar = getActionBar();
        SectionsPagerAdapter = new TabsPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());

        ViewPager.setAdapter(SectionsPagerAdapter);
        actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
        actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); 

     // Adding Tabs
        for (String tab_name : tabs) {
            actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText(tab_name).setTabListener(this));
        }

        ViewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void onPageSelected(int position) {
                // on changing the page
                // make respected tab selected
                actionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(position);
            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrolled(int arg0, float arg1, int arg2) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int arg0) {
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, android.app.FragmentTransaction ft) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, android.app.FragmentTransaction ft) {
        ViewPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, android.app.FragmentTransaction ft) {

    }

//Attaching the fragments to the tabPagerAdapter
public class TabsPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

        public TabsPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
            super(fm);
        }

        @Override
        public Fragment getItem(int index) {

            switch (index) {
            case 0:
                return new EventFragment();
            case 1:
                // Points to the Lineup class
                return new LineupFragment();
            case 2:
                // Points to the 
                return new DonationFragment();
            case 3:

                return new ConcertFragment();
            }

            return null;
        }
@Override
        public int getCount() {
            // get item count - equal to number of tabs
            return 4;
        }
    }

//Add your fragments here

Hope this helps you :)

Problem

I have an activity with a viewpager that has 3 tabs and 3 fragments, inside each tab is a fragment. I know that the fragment manager stores the initial instances of the fragments so that if I swipe away from a tab then return to that tab, it is loaded in memory and no updates are applied to it. I need the opposite to happen, that is: Every time I swipe to a tab, a new instance of the fragment in that tab needs to load so that data will be updated. I have tried: - detach attach fragment in onTabSelected (nothing happens) - remove add fragment in onTabSelected (nothing happens) - setOffscreenPageLimit(0) (Nothing happens) - refresh function inside each fragment to be called onTabSelected (gives nullPointerException) I have been struggling with this problem for a week with no progress. I appreciate any help, be it a hint, a comment, a suggestion. Let me know what code should I post, Thanks.

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