Update ViewPager dynamically?

When using FragmentPagerAdapter or FragmentStatePagerAdapter, it is best to deal solely with getItem() and not touch instantiateItem() at all. The instantiateItem()-destroyItem()-isViewFromObject() interface on PagerAdapter is a lower-level interface that FragmentPagerAdapter uses to implement the much simpler getItem() interface.

Before getting into this, I should clarify that

if you want to switch out the actual fragments that are being displayed, you need to avoid FragmentPagerAdapter and use FragmentStatePagerAdapter.

An earlier version of this answer made the mistake of using FragmentPagerAdapter for its example - that won't work because FragmentPagerAdapter never destroys a fragment after it's been displayed the first time.

I don't recommend the setTag() and findViewWithTag() workaround provided in the post you linked. As you've discovered, using setTag() and findViewWithTag() doesn't work with fragments, so it's not a good match.

The right solution is to override getItemPosition(). When notifyDataSetChanged() is called, ViewPager calls getItemPosition() on all the items in its adapter to see whether they need to be moved to a different position or removed.

By default, getItemPosition() returns POSITION_UNCHANGED, which means, "This object is fine where it is, don't destroy or remove it." Returning POSITION_NONE fixes the problem by instead saying, "This object is no longer an item I'm displaying, remove it." So it has the effect of removing and recreating every single item in your adapter.

This is a completely legitimate fix! This fix makes notifyDataSetChanged behave like a regular Adapter without view recycling. If you implement this fix and performance is satisfactory, you're off to the races. Job done.

If you need better performance, you can use a fancier getItemPosition() implementation. Here's an example for a pager creating fragments off of a list of strings:

ViewPager pager = /* get my ViewPager */;
// assume this actually has stuff in it
final ArrayList<String> titles = new ArrayList<String>();

FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
pager.setAdapter(new FragmentStatePagerAdapter(fm) {
    public int getCount() {
        return titles.size();
    }

    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        MyFragment fragment = new MyFragment();
        fragment.setTitle(titles.get(position));
        return fragment;
    }

    public int getItemPosition(Object item) {
        MyFragment fragment = (MyFragment)item;
        String title = fragment.getTitle();
        int position = titles.indexOf(title);

        if (position >= 0) {
            return position;
        } else {
            return POSITION_NONE;
        }
    }
});

With this implementation, only fragments displaying new titles will get displayed. Any fragments displaying titles that are still in the list will instead be moved around to their new position in the list, and fragments with titles that are no longer in the list at all will be destroyed.

What if the fragment has not been recreated, but needs to be updated anyway? Updates to a living fragment are best handled by the fragment itself. That's the advantage of having a fragment, after all - it is its own controller. A fragment can add a listener or an observer to another object in onCreate(), and then remove it in onDestroy(), thus managing the updates itself. You don't have to put all the update code inside getItem() like you do in an adapter for a ListView or other AdapterView types.

One last thing - just because FragmentPagerAdapter doesn't destroy a fragment doesn't mean that getItemPosition is completely useless in a FragmentPagerAdapter. You can still use this callback to reorder your fragments in the ViewPager. It will never remove them completely from the FragmentManager, though.

Instead of returning POSITION_NONE from getItemPosition() and causing full view recreation, do this:

//call this method to update fragments in ViewPager dynamically
public void update(UpdateData xyzData) {
    this.updateData = xyzData;
    notifyDataSetChanged();
}

@Override
public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
    if (object instanceof UpdateableFragment) {
        ((UpdateableFragment) object).update(updateData);
    }
    //don't return POSITION_NONE, avoid fragment recreation. 
    return super.getItemPosition(object);
}

Your fragments should implement UpdateableFragment interface:

public class SomeFragment extends Fragment implements
    UpdateableFragment{

    @Override
    public void update(UpdateData xyzData) {
         // this method will be called for every fragment in viewpager
         // so check if update is for this fragment
         if(forMe(xyzData)) {
           // do whatever you want to update your UI
         }
    }
}

and the interface:

public interface UpdateableFragment {
   public void update(UpdateData xyzData);
}

Your data class:

public class UpdateData {
    //whatever you want here
}

for those who still face the same problem which i faced before when i have a ViewPager with 7 fragments. the default for these fragments to load the English content from API service but the problem here that i want to change the language from settings activity and after finish settings activity i want ViewPager in main activity to refresh the fragments to match the language selection from the user and load the Arabic content if user chooses Arabic here what i did to work from the first time

1- You must use FragmentStatePagerAdapter as mentioned above.

2- on mainActivity i override the onResume and did the following

if (!(mPagerAdapter == null)) {
    mPagerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

3-i overrided the getItemPosition() in mPagerAdapter and make it return POSITION_NONE.

@Override
public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
    return POSITION_NONE;
}

works like charm

https://i.stack.imgur.com/COX7R.png

Serialized data has to be loaded into memory. This can be done using a CursorLoader/AsyncTask/Thread. Whether it's automatically loaded depends on your code. If you are using a CursorLoader, it's auto-loaded since there is a registered data observer. After you call viewpager.setAdapter(pageradapter), the adapter's getCount() is constantly called to build fragments. So if data is being loaded, getCount() can return 0, thus you don't need to create dummy fragments for no data shown. After the data is loaded, the adapter will not build fragments automatically since getCount() is still 0, so we can set the actually loaded data number to be returned by getCount(), then call the adapter's notifyDataSetChanged(). ViewPager begin to create fragments (just the first 2 fragments) by data in memory. It's done before notifyDataSetChanged() is returned. Then the ViewPager has the right fragments you need. If the data in the database and memory are both updated (write through), or just data in memory is updated (write back), or only data in the database is updated. In the last two cases if data is not automatically loaded from the database to memory (as mentioned above). The ViewPager and pager adapter just deal with data in memory. So when data in memory is updated, we just need to call the adapter's notifyDataSetChanged(). Since the fragment is already created, the adapter's onItemPosition() will be called before notifyDataSetChanged(） returns. Nothing needs to be done in getItemPosition(). Then the data is updated.

Try destroyDrawingCache() on ViewPager after notifyDataSetChanged() in your code.

After hours of frustration while trying all the above solutions to overcome this problem and also trying many solutions on other similar questions like this, this and this which all FAILED with me to solve this problem and to make the ViewPager to destroy the old Fragment and fill the pager with the new Fragments. I have solved the problem as following:

1) Make the ViewPager class to extends FragmentPagerAdapter as following:

 public class myPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

2) Create an Item for the ViewPager that store the title and the fragment as following:

public class PagerItem {
private String mTitle;
private Fragment mFragment;


public PagerItem(String mTitle, Fragment mFragment) {
    this.mTitle = mTitle;
    this.mFragment = mFragment;
}
public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
}
public Fragment getFragment() {
    return mFragment;
}
public void setTitle(String mTitle) {
    this.mTitle = mTitle;
}

public void setFragment(Fragment mFragment) {
    this.mFragment = mFragment;
}

}

3) Make the constructor of the ViewPager take my FragmentManager instance to store it in my class as following:

private FragmentManager mFragmentManager;
private ArrayList<PagerItem> mPagerItems;

public MyPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fragmentManager, ArrayList<PagerItem> pagerItems) {
    super(fragmentManager);
    mFragmentManager = fragmentManager;
    mPagerItems = pagerItems;
}

4) Create a method to re-set the adapter data with the new data by deleting all the previous fragment from the fragmentManager itself directly to make the adapter to set the new fragment from the new list again as following:

public void setPagerItems(ArrayList<PagerItem> pagerItems) {
    if (mPagerItems != null)
        for (int i = 0; i < mPagerItems.size(); i++) {
            mFragmentManager.beginTransaction().remove(mPagerItems.get(i).getFragment()).commit();
        }
    mPagerItems = pagerItems;
}

5) From the container Activity or Fragment do not re-initialize the adapter with the new data. Set the new data through the method setPagerItems with the new data as following:

ArrayList<PagerItem> pagerItems = new ArrayList<PagerItem>();
    pagerItems.add(new PagerItem("Fragment1", new MyFragment1()));
    pagerItems.add(new PagerItem("Fragment2", new MyFragment2()));

    mPagerAdapter.setPagerItems(pagerItems);
    mPagerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

I hope it helps.

For some reason none of the answers worked for me so I had to override the restoreState method without calling super in my fragmentStatePagerAdapter. Code:

private class MyAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {

    // [Rest of implementation]

    @Override
    public void restoreState(Parcelable state, ClassLoader loader) {}

}

I slightly modified the solution provided by Bill Phillips to suit my needs

private class PagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter{
    Bundle oBundle;
    FragmentManager oFragmentManager;
    ArrayList<Fragment> oPooledFragments;

public PagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
    super(fm);
    oFragmentManager=fm;

    }
@Override
public int getItemPosition(Object object) {

    Fragment oFragment=(Fragment)object;
    oPooledFragments=new ArrayList<>(oFragmentManager.getFragments());
    if(oPooledFragments.contains(oFragment))
        return POSITION_NONE;
    else
        return POSITION_UNCHANGED;
    } 
}

so that the getItemPosition() returns POSITION_NONE only for those fragments which are currently in the FragmentManager when getItemPosition is called. (Note that this FragmentStatePager and the ViewPager associated with it are contained in a Fragment not in a Activity)

I had a similar problem but don't want to trust on the existing solutions (hard coded tag names etc.) and I couldn't make M-WaJeEh's solution work for me. Here is my solution:

I keep references to the fragments created in getItem in an array. This works fine as long as the activity is not destroyed due to configurationChange or lack of memory or whatever (--> when coming back to the activity, fragments return to their last state without 'getItem' being called again and thus without updating the array).

To avoid this problem I implemented instantiateItem(ViewGroup, int) and update my array there, like this:

        @Override
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
        Object o = super.instantiateItem(container, position);
        if(o instanceof FragmentX){
            myFragments[0] = (FragmentX)o;
        }else if(o instanceof FragmentY){
            myFragments[1] = (FragmentY)o;
        }else if(o instanceof FragmentZ){
            myFragments[2] = (FragmentZ)o;
        }
        return o;
    }

So, on the one hand I'm happy that I found a solution that works for me and wanted to share it with you, but I also wanted to ask whether somebody else tried something similar and whether there is any reason why I shouldn't do it like that? So far it works very good for me...

I have lived same problem and I have searched too much times. Any answer given in stackoverflow or via google was not solution for my problem. My problem was easy. I have a list, I show this list with viewpager. When I add a new element to head of the list and I refresh the viewpager nothings changed. My final solution was very easy anybody can use. When a new element added to list and want to refresh the list. Firstly set viewpager adapter to null then recreate the adapter and set i to it to viewpager.

myVPager.setAdapter(null);
myFragmentAdapter = new MyFragmentAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager(),newList);
myVPager.setAdapter(myFragmentAdapter);

Be sure your adapter must extend FragmentStatePagerAdapter

I use EventBus library to update Fragment content in ViewPager. The logic is simple, just like document of EventBus how to do. It is no need to control FragmentPagerAdapter instance. The code is here:

1: Define events

Define which message which is needed to update.

public class UpdateCountEvent {
    public final int count;

    public UpdateCountEvent(int count) {
        this.count = count;
    }
}

2.Prepare subscribers

Write below code in the Fragment which is needed update.

@Override
public void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    EventBus.getDefault().register(this);
}

@Override
public void onStop() {
    EventBus.getDefault().unregister(this);  
    super.onStop();
}

public void onEvent(UpdateCountEvent event) {//get update message
    Toast.makeText(getActivity(), event.count, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

3.Post events

Write below code in other Activity or other Fragment which needs to update parameter

//input update message
EventBus.getDefault().post(new UpdateCountEvent(count));

I had been trying so many different approaches, none really sove my problem. Below are how I solve it with a mix of solutions provided by you all. Thanks everyone.

class PagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

    public boolean flag_refresh=false;

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

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int page) {
        FragmentsMain f;
        f=new FragmentsMain();
        f.page=page;
        return f;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 4;
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemPosition(Object item) {
        int page= ((FragmentsMain)item).page;

        if (page == 0 && flag_refresh) {
            flag_refresh=false;
            return POSITION_NONE;
        } else {
            return super.getItemPosition(item);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(View container, int position, Object object) {

        ((ViewPager) container).removeView((View) object);
    }
}

I only want to refresh page 0 after onResume().

 adapter=new PagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
 pager.setAdapter(adapter);

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();

    if (adapter!=null) {
        adapter.flag_refresh=true;
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
}

In my FragmentsMain, there is public integer "page", which can tell me whether it is the page I want to refresh.

public class FragmentsMain extends Fragment {

private Cursor cursor;
private static Context context;
public int page=-1;

I know am late for the Party. I've fixed the problem by calling TabLayout#setupWithViewPager(myViewPager); just after FragmentPagerAdapter#notifyDataSetChanged();

If you want to use FragmentStatePagerAdapter, please take a look at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=37990. There are issues with FragmentStatePagerAdapter that may or may not trouble your use case.

Also, link has few solutions too..few may suit to your requirement.

This might be of help to someone - in my case when inserting a new page the view pager was asking for the position of an existing fragment twice, but not asking for the position of the new item, causing incorrect behaviour and data not displaying.

Copy the source for for FragmentStatePagerAdapter (seems to have not been updated in ages). Override notifyDataSetChanged() @Override public void notifyDataSetChanged() { mFragments.clear(); super.notifyDataSetChanged(); } Add a sanity check to destroyItem() to prevent crashes: if (position < mFragments.size()) { mFragments.set(position, null); }

Here is my implementation that incorporates the info from @Bill Phillips One gets fragment caching most of the time, except when the data has changed. Simple, and seems to work fine.

MyFragmentStatePagerAdapter.java

private boolean mIsUpdating = false;
public void setIsUpdating(boolean mIsUpdating) {
        this.mIsUpdating = mIsUpdating;
    }


@Override
public int getItemPosition(@NonNull Object object) {

    if (mIsUpdating) {
        return POSITION_NONE;
    }
    else {
        return super.getItemPosition(object);
    }
}

MyActivity.java

mAdapter.setIsUpdating(true);
mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
mAdapter.setIsUpdating(false);

This solution won't work for everyone, but in my case, every Fragment in my ViewPager is a different class, and only one of them ever exist at a time.

With this constraint, this solution is safe and should be safe to use in production.

private void updateFragment(Item item) {

    List<Fragment> fragments = getSupportFragmentManager().getFragments();
    for (Fragment fragment : fragments) {

        if (fragment instanceof MyItemFragment && fragment.isVisible()) {
            ((MyItemFragment) fragment).update(item);
        }

    }
}

If you have multiple versions of the same fragment, you can use this same strategy to call methods on those fragments to determine if it is the fragment you wish to update.

I've gone through all the answers above and a number of others posts but still couldn't find something that worked for me (with different fragment types along with dynamically adding and removing tabs). FWIW following approach is what worked for me (in case anyone else has same issues).

public class MyFragmentStatePageAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {
    private static final String TAB1_TITLE = "Tab 1";
    private static final String TAB2_TITLE = "Tab 2";
    private static final String TAB3_TITLE = "Tab 3";

    private ArrayList<String> titles = new ArrayList<>();
    private Map<Fragment, Integer> fragmentPositions = new HashMap<>();


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


    public void update(boolean showTab1, boolean showTab2, boolean showTab3) {
        titles.clear();

        if (showTab1) {
            titles.add(TAB1_TITLE);
        }
        if (showTab2) {
            titles.add(TAB2_TITLE);
        }
        if (showTab3) {
            titles.add(TAB3_TITLE);
        }
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }


    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return titles.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        Fragment fragment = null;

        String tabName = titles.get(position);
        if (tabName.equals(TAB1_TITLE)) { 
            fragment =  Tab1Fragment.newInstance();
        } else if (tabName.equals(TAB2_TITLE)) {
            fragment =  Tab2Fragment.newInstance();
        } else if (tabName.equals(TAB3_TITLE)) {
            fragment =  Tab3Fragmen.newInstance();
        } 

        ((BaseFragment)fragment).setTitle(tabName);
        fragmentPositions.put(fragment, position);
        return fragment;
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
        return titles.get(position);
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemPosition(Object item) {
        BaseFragment fragment = (BaseFragment)item;
        String title = fragment.getTitle();
        int position = titles.indexOf(title);

        Integer fragmentPosition = fragmentPositions.get(item);
        if (fragmentPosition != null && position == fragmentPosition) {
            return POSITION_UNCHANGED;
        } else {
            return POSITION_NONE;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
        super.destroyItem(container, position, object);
        fragmentPositions.remove(object);
    }
}

Use FragmentStatePagerAdapter instead of FragmentPagerAdapter if you want to recreate or reload fragment on index basis For example if you want to reload fragment other than FirstFragment, you can check instance and return position like this

 public int getItemPosition(Object item) {
    if(item instanceof FirstFragment){
       return 0;
    }
    return POSITION_NONE;
 }

You need change instantiateItem's mFragments element getItemPosition.

    if (mFragments.size() > position) {
        Fragment f = mFragments.get(position);

        if (f != null) {
            int newPosition = getItemPosition(f);
            if (newPosition == POSITION_UNCHANGED) {
                return f;
            } else if (newPosition == POSITION_NONE) {
                mFragments.set(position, null);
            } else {
                mFragments.set(newPosition, f);
            }
        }
    }

Based AndroidX FragmentStatePagerAdapter.java, because mFragments's elements position do not change when calling notifyDataSetChanged().

Source: https://github.com/cuichanghao/infivt/blob/master/library/src/main/java/cc/cuichanghao/library/FragmentStatePagerChangeableAdapter.java

Example: https://github.com/cuichanghao/infivt/blob/master/app/src/main/java/cc/cuichanghao/infivt/MainActivityChangeablePager.kt

You can run this project to confirm how to work. https://github.com/cuichanghao/infivt

Using ViewPager2 and FragmentStateAdapter:

Updating data dynamically is supported by ViewPager2.

There is an important note in the docs on how to get this working:

Note: The DiffUtil utility class relies on identifying items by ID. If you are using ViewPager2 to page through a mutable collection, you must also override getItemId() and containsItem(). (emphasis mine)

Based on ViewPager2 documentation and Android's Github sample project there are a few steps we need to take:

Set up FragmentStateAdapter and override the following methods: getItemCount, createFragment, getItemId, and containsItem (note: FragmentStatePagerAdapter is not supported by ViewPager2) Attach adapter to ViewPager2 Dispatch list updates to ViewPager2 with DiffUtil (don't need to use DiffUtil, as seen in sample project)

Example:

private val items: List<Int>
    get() = viewModel.items
private val viewPager: ViewPager2 = binding.viewPager

private val adapter = object : FragmentStateAdapter(this@Fragment) {
    override fun getItemCount() = items.size
    override fun createFragment(position: Int): Fragment = MyFragment()
    override fun getItemId(position: Int): Long = items[position].id
    override fun containsItem(itemId: Long): Boolean = items.any { it.id == itemId }
}
viewPager.adapter = adapter
    
private fun onDataChanged() {
    DiffUtil
        .calculateDiff(object : DiffUtil.Callback() {
            override fun getOldListSize(): Int = viewPager.adapter.itemCount
            override fun getNewListSize(): Int = viewModel.items.size
            override fun areItemsTheSame(oldItemPosition: Int, newItemPosition: Int) =
                viewPager.adapter?.getItemId(oldItemPosition) == viewModel.items[newItemPosition].id

            override fun areContentsTheSame(oldItemPosition: Int, newItemPosition: Int) =
                areItemsTheSame(oldItemPosition, newItemPosition)
        }, false)
        .dispatchUpdatesTo(viewPager.adapter!!)
}