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Android Android Fragments Managing Fragments Adding the ViewPager

Iskandar Fendi
Iskandar Fendi
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Posted by Iskandar Fendi
Iskandar Fendi
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getChildFragment(): fragment within fragment?

Can somebody explain to me what does it mean by "Fragment within fragment"? In this scenario? and the interesting things is when I changed, inside OnCreateView method, from getChildFragmentManager to getFragmentManager? It will run ok

1 Answer

Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
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Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
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It means that we are adding a fragment within another fragment. In this case, the fragment (or fragments) we are adding are DirectionsFragment and IngredientsFragment and we are adding them to ViewPagerFragment.

Was curious to try using getFragmentManager instead of getChildFragmentManager as you suggested, but it only partially works, i.e. it works only on opening a recipe once, the ViewPager is initialized and fragments (within a fragment) are added and so on, but if you tap the back button to go back to the list, and choose another, or even the same recipe, we get a blank screen, which I believe means we are seeing ViewPagerFragment, but the actual ViewPager isn't initializing with the additional fragments (within the fragment), so that's probably the issue why we have to use getChildFragmentManager to be able to add a fragment within a fragment.