reusing fragments in a fragmentpageradapter

Question

I have a viewpager that pages through fragments. My FragmentPagerAdapter subclass creates a new fragment in the getItem method which seems wasteful

Answer 1

Appendix for Geoff's post:

You can get reference to your Fragment in FragmentPagerAdapter using findFragmentByTag(). The name of the tag is generated this way:

private static String makeFragmentName(int viewId, int index)
{
     return "android:switcher:" + viewId + ":" + index;
}

where viewId is id of ViewPager

Look at this link: http://code.google.com/p/openintents/source/browse/trunk/compatibility/AndroidSupportV2/src/android/support/v2/app/FragmentPagerAdapter.java#104