Use fragments in fragment

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I am using FragmentStatePagerAdapter to create view pager for a list of objects. Each page is a fragment.

However, on that page, I am also using fragments to display some other data.

I got problem when doing this. I wonder can I put fragments in fragment. Or any other solutions to work this out?

Nope you've got it wrong. Don't put fragments in your fragments, causes major headaches. Sounds like your smaller fragments "to display data" should be custom views instead — Blundell, Oct 31 '12 at 17:15
yo, heard you like fragments so i put fragments in your fragments in your fragments. (credits : xzibit) — njzk2, Oct 31 '12 at 17:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

Nested fragments are not supported by current fragment implementation (it was answered by Diane, Android engineer as well here:

Nested fragments are not currently supported. Trying to put a fragment within the UI of another fragment will result in undefined and likely broken behavior.

But it does not mean it is not doable - it can be achieved, however requires writing some more code than just fragment. There's comment in same thread by other user:

I managed this by extending FragmentActivity, FragmentManager, and FragmentTransaction. Basic premise is extend DeferringFragmentActivity in my activities, providing same api so no other code changes. When I call getFragmentManager, I get an instance that DeferringFragmentManager, and when I call beginTransaction, I get a DeferredTransaction. This transaction stores POJOs with the called method and arguments. When commit is call, we look for any pending DeferredTransactions first. Once all transactions have been committed, we start a real transaction and run all the stored methods with args

In general - unless you are desperated, just redesign your layout.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '12 at 17:28

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Fragments cannot hold other fragments. It's not supported (errors with state)

answered Oct 31 '12 at 17:28

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 01 '12 at 10:47

I have used Fragments inside an Fragment in a project. The way I ended up doing is adding these inside fragments via code and using the fragment attached to the activity as a "proxy" for the other, so on the oncreateview() of the fragment you instantiate the inside fragments, ondestroyview() you remove the inside fragments and so on.

Use fragments in fragment

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