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

I solved this issue by keeping currently opened fragment in property of activity. Then I override method

 // INSIDE ACTIVITY
 override fun onBackPressed() {
    val fragment = currentFragment

    if(fragment != null && fragment.childFragmentManager.fragments.any()){
        fragment.childFragmentManager.popBackStack()
    }
    else {
        super.onBackPressed()
    }
}

This is how I add child fragment into currently opened fragment from within itself.

 // INSIDE FRAGMENT
 menu_fragment_view.setBackgroundColor(-((Math.random() * 10000 ).toInt() % 30000)) // to see change
 add_fragment_button.setOnClickListener {
        val transaction = childFragmentManager.beginTransaction()

        transaction.add(R.id.menu_fragment_fragment_holder, MenuFragment())

        transaction.addToBackStack(null)

        transaction.commit()
    }

This is xml layout of parent fragment and added fragment