A little improved and wrapped into a manager solution.
Things to keep in mind. FragmentManager is not a singleton, it manages only Fragments within Activity, so in every activity it will be new. Also, this solution so far doesn't take ViewPager into account that calls setUserVisibleHint() method helping to control visiblity of Fragments.
Feel free to use following classes when dealing with this issue (uses Dagger2 injection). Call in Activity:
//inject FragmentBackstackStateManager instance to myFragmentBackstackStateManager
FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
myFragmentBackstackStateManager.apply(fragmentManager);
FragmentBackstackStateManager.java:
@Singleton
public class FragmentBackstackStateManager {
private FragmentManager fragmentManager;
@Inject
public FragmentBackstackStateManager() {
}
private BackstackCallback backstackCallbackImpl = new BackstackCallback() {
@Override
public void onFragmentPushed(Fragment parentFragment) {
parentFragment.onPause();
}
@Override
public void onFragmentPopped(Fragment parentFragment) {
parentFragment.onResume();
}
};
public FragmentBackstackChangeListenerImpl getListener() {
return new FragmentBackstackChangeListenerImpl(fragmentManager, backstackCallbackImpl);
}
public void apply(FragmentManager fragmentManager) {
this.fragmentManager = fragmentManager;
fragmentManager.addOnBackStackChangedListener(getListener());
}
}
FragmentBackstackChangeListenerImpl.java:
public class FragmentBackstackChangeListenerImpl implements FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener {
private int lastBackStackEntryCount = 0;
private final FragmentManager fragmentManager;
private final BackstackCallback backstackChangeListener;
public FragmentBackstackChangeListenerImpl(FragmentManager fragmentManager, BackstackCallback backstackChangeListener) {
this.fragmentManager = fragmentManager;
this.backstackChangeListener = backstackChangeListener;
lastBackStackEntryCount = fragmentManager.getBackStackEntryCount();
}
private boolean wasPushed(int backStackEntryCount) {
return lastBackStackEntryCount < backStackEntryCount;
}
private boolean wasPopped(int backStackEntryCount) {
return lastBackStackEntryCount > backStackEntryCount;
}
private boolean haveFragments() {
List<Fragment> fragmentList = fragmentManager.getFragments();
return fragmentList != null && !fragmentList.isEmpty();
}
/**
* If we push a fragment to backstack then parent would be the one before => size - 2
* If we pop a fragment from backstack logically it should be the last fragment in the list, but in Android popping a fragment just makes list entry null keeping list size intact, thus it's also size - 2
*
* @return fragment that is parent to the one that is pushed to or popped from back stack
*/
private Fragment getParentFragment() {
List<Fragment> fragmentList = fragmentManager.getFragments();
return fragmentList.get(Math.max(0, fragmentList.size() - 2));
}
@Override
public void onBackStackChanged() {
int currentBackStackEntryCount = fragmentManager.getBackStackEntryCount();
if (haveFragments()) {
Fragment parentFragment = getParentFragment();
//will be null if was just popped and was last in the stack
if (parentFragment != null) {
if (wasPushed(currentBackStackEntryCount)) {
backstackChangeListener.onFragmentPushed(parentFragment);
} else if (wasPopped(currentBackStackEntryCount)) {
backstackChangeListener.onFragmentPopped(parentFragment);
}
}
}
lastBackStackEntryCount = currentBackStackEntryCount;
}
}
BackstackCallback.java:
public interface BackstackCallback {
void onFragmentPushed(Fragment parentFragment);
void onFragmentPopped(Fragment parentFragment);
}