Android 4.2: back stack behaviour with nested fragments

Question

With Android 4.2, the support library got support for nested fragments see here. I\'ve played around with it and found an interesting behaviour / bug regarding back stack an

Answer 1

This solution may be better, bacause it checks all the levels of nested fragments:

 /**
 * This method will go check all the back stacks of the added fragments and their nested fragments
 * to the the {@code FragmentManager} passed as parameter.
 * If there is a fragment and the back stack of this fragment is not empty,
 * then emulate 'onBackPressed' behaviour, because in default, it is not working.
 *
 * @param fm the fragment manager to which we will try to dispatch the back pressed event.
 * @return {@code true} if the onBackPressed event was consumed by a child fragment, otherwise {@code false}.
 */
public static boolean dispatchOnBackPressedToFragments(FragmentManager fm) {

    List fragments = fm.getFragments();
    boolean result;
    if (fragments != null && !fragments.isEmpty()) {
        for (Fragment frag : fragments) {
            if (frag != null && frag.isAdded() && frag.getChildFragmentManager() != null) {
                // go to the next level of child fragments.
                result = dispatchOnBackPressedToFragments(frag.getChildFragmentManager());
                if (result) return true;
            }
        }
    }

    // if the back stack is not empty then we pop the last transaction.
    if (fm.getBackStackEntryCount() > 0) {
        fm.popBackStack();
        fm.executePendingTransactions();
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

in your activity onBackPressed you can simply call it this way:

FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
                // if there is a fragment and the back stack of this fragment is not empty,
                // then emulate 'onBackPressed' behaviour, because in default, it is not working
                if (!dispatchOnBackPressedToFragments(fm)) {
                    // if no child fragment consumed the onBackPressed event,
                    // we execute the default behaviour.
                    super.onBackPressed();
                }