Call Fragment's OnCreate when page is fully selected

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My app contains a ViewPager which holds 5 fragments. When fragment 1 is visible, it also calls fragment 2's onCreate method. I tried using onAttach, onMenuVisibility, etc. But I don't like how these perform in my app.

Is there a way to disable a fragment's onCreate being called when the adjacent fragment is visible?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/17611796/2308683 – OneCricketeer Jan 23 '17 at 20:11 — OneCricketeer, Jan 23 '17 at 20:11
@cricket_007 Not sure what I would do without you – grantespo Jan 23 '17 at 20:12 — grantespo, Jan 23 '17 at 20:12

beeb · Answer 1 · 2017-01-23T20:13:30.287

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ViewPager is loading next and previous pages accordingly to viewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(). Default and min value is 1.

edited Jan 23 '17 at 20:13

answered Jan 23 '17 at 20:11

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

What I've found about it's that you need at least 1 fragment offset (check setOffscreenPageLimit()).

You can have a placeholder fragment if you want. But as viewpager enables you to swipe left/right, android always want to show a smooth movement to the side pages and that requires having the page previously loaded.

You can find more about this here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10073916/3976716

Call Fragment's OnCreate when page is fully selected

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