You should use a FragmentPagerAdapter
which is adequate to put Fragments
inside ViewPagers
.
A complete tutorial from android developer here
EDIT:
First of all, you need to override the getItemPosition
of the adapter, and return the POSITION_NONE
constant in order to be able to replace pager's fragments.
@Override
public int getItemPosition(Object object)
{
return POSITION_NONE;
}
Then create a listner for handling fragment switching:
public interface MyListener
{
public void onFragmentChange();
}
Your adapter should implements the listner and add some code inside onFragmentChange()
method:
public class TabsPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
private FragmentManager fm;
public TabsPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
super(fm);
this.fm = fm;
}
@Override
public Fragment getItem(int index) {
switch (index) {
case 0:
fragment1 = TopRatedFragment.newInstance(this);
return fragment1;
case 1:
// ...
return fragment2;
case 2:
// ...
return fragment3;
case 3:
// ...
return fragment4;
}
return null;
}
@Override
public int getCount() {
// get item count - equal to number of tabs
return 4;
}
public void onFragmentChange(){
fm.beginTransaction().remove(fragment1).commit();
fragment1 = NewFragment.newInstance();
notifyDataSetChanged(); // notify the viewpager adapter that content has changed
}
}
Pass an instance of the listner in the fragment you want to remove/replace later :
public class TopRatedFragment extends Fragment {
public static TopRatedFragment newInstance(MyListner listner) {
this.myListner = listner;
return new TopRatedFragment ();
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_top_rated, container, false);
return rootView;
}
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// some logical here ... and when you want to change fragment do this
myListner.onFragmentChange();
}
}
Here is some more explanation of this.
You should also read about FragmentStatePagerAdapter
: here
Hope it helps !