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

For future readers!

If you are thinking of reusing fragments with viewpager, best solution is to use ViewPager 2, since View Pager 2 make use of RecyclerView.

• Medium article - Exploring the View Pager 2
• Docs
• Samples repo
• Release notes