I am having trouble with an Activity that fires off a command to a fragment in a ViewPager using a FragmentNotification interface. Everything works well until either the app is in the background for a long period of time or the orientation changes. At that point the Activity seems to lose connection to the Fragment.
My Activity code:
public class MyActivity extends FragmentActivity implements MyFragment3.FragmentNotification {
SectionsPagerAdapter mSectionsPagerAdapter;
ViewPager mViewPager;
MyFragment1 fragOne = new MyFragment1();
MyFragment2 fragTwo = new MyFragment2();
MyFragment3 fragThree = new MyFragment3();
boolean toggle = false;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
...
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
// Create the adapter that will return a fragment for each of the three primary sections
// of the app.
mSectionsPagerAdapter = new SectionsPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
// Set up the ViewPager with the sections adapter.
mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
mViewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(2);
mViewPager.setAdapter(mSectionsPagerAdapter);
mViewPager.setClickable(true);
mViewPager.setCurrentItem(0);
}
}
@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK)) {
if (fragThree != null) {
fragThree.doSomething();
toggle = false;
return false;
} else {
}
}
return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}
public class SectionsPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
public SectionsPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
super(fm);
}
@Override
public Fragment getItem(int i) {
Fragment fragment;
if(i==0){
fragment = fragOne;
}else if(i==1){
fragment = fragTwo;
}else{
fragment = fragThree;
}
return fragment;
}
@Override
public int getCount() {
return 3;
}
@Override
public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
switch (position) {
case 0: return getString(R.string.title_section1).toUpperCase();
case 1: return getString(R.string.title_section2).toUpperCase();
case 2: return getString(R.string.title_section3).toUpperCase();
}
return null;
}
}
//Receive an event notification from a fragment
// @Override
public void fragmentAction(int actionType) {
if (actionType == MyFragment3.TOGGLE_ACT) {
toggle = true;
}
}
}
My Fragment Code:
public class MyFragment3 extends Fragment {
View mView;
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
...
mView = ....
return rootView;
}
@Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
}
@Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
super.onAttach(activity);
try {
mListener = (FragmentNotification) activity;
} catch (ClassCastException e) {
throw new ClassCastException(activity.toString() + " must implement OnArticleSelectedListener");
}
}
public void doSomething(){
mView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
...
}
public interface FragmentNotification {
public void fragmentAction(int actionType);
}
}
As mentioned, everything works well until some state change, and then it appears the activity loses reference to the fragment present in the viewpager, even though it is being displayed properly until the back button is pressed.
I believe I need to restore the connection by supplying a bundle from my Fragment's onSaveInstanceState, but have no idea how to get started.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Josh
