How to determine when Fragment becomes visible in ViewPager

Question

Problem: Fragment onResume() in ViewPager is fired before the fragment becomes actually visible.

For example, I have 2 fragments with

Answer 1

In ViewPager2 and ViewPager from version androidx.fragment:fragment:1.1.0 you can just use onPause and onResume callbacks to determine which fragment is currently visible for the user. onResume callback is called when fragment became visible and onPause when it stops to be visible.

In case of ViewPager2 it is default behavior but the same behavior can be enabled for old good ViewPager easily.

To enable this behavior in the first ViewPager you have to pass FragmentPagerAdapter.BEHAVIOR_RESUME_ONLY_CURRENT_FRAGMENT parameter as second argument of FragmentPagerAdapter constructor.

FragmentPagerAdapter(fragmentManager, BEHAVIOR_RESUME_ONLY_CURRENT_FRAGMENT)

Note: setUserVisibleHint() method and FragmentPagerAdapter constructor with one parameter are now deprecated in the new version of Fragment from android jetpack.