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

To detect Fragment in ViewPager visible, I'm quite sure that only using setUserVisibleHint is not enough.
Here is my solution to check if a fragment is visible or invisible. First when launching viewpager, switch between page, go to another activity/fragment/ background/foreground`

public class BaseFragmentHelpLoadDataWhenVisible extends Fragment {
    protected boolean mIsVisibleToUser; // you can see this variable may absolutely <=> getUserVisibleHint() but it not. Currently, after many test I find that

    /**
     * This method will be called when viewpager creates fragment and when we go to this fragment background or another activity or fragment
     * NOT called when we switch between each page in ViewPager
     */
    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        if (mIsVisibleToUser) {
            onVisible();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        if (mIsVisibleToUser) {
            onInVisible();
        }
    }

    /**
     * This method will called at first time viewpager created and when we switch between each page
     * NOT called when we go to background or another activity (fragment) when we go back
     */
    @Override
    public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
        super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);
        mIsVisibleToUser = isVisibleToUser;
        if (isResumed()) { // fragment have created
            if (mIsVisibleToUser) {
                onVisible();
            } else {
                onInVisible();
            }
        }
    }

    public void onVisible() {
        Toast.makeText(getActivity(), TAG + "visible", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    public void onInVisible() {
        Toast.makeText(getActivity(), TAG + "invisible", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

EXPLANATION You can check the logcat below carefully then I think you may know why this solution will work

First launch

Fragment1: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=false isResumed=false
Fragment2: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=false isResumed=false
Fragment3: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=false isResumed=false
Fragment1: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=true isResumed=false // AT THIS TIME isVisibleToUser=true but fragment still not created. If you do something with View here, you will receive exception
Fragment1: onCreateView
Fragment1: onStart mIsVisibleToUser=true
Fragment2: onCreateView
Fragment3: onCreateView
Fragment2: onStart mIsVisibleToUser=false
Fragment3: onStart mIsVisibleToUser=false

Go to page2

Fragment1: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=false isResumed=true
Fragment2: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=true isResumed=true

Go to page3

Fragment2: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=false isResumed=true
Fragment3: setUserVisibleHint: isVisibleToUser=true isResumed=true

Go to background:

Fragment1: onStop mIsVisibleToUser=false
Fragment2: onStop mIsVisibleToUser=false
Fragment3: onStop mIsVisibleToUser=true

Go to foreground

Fragment1: onStart mIsVisibleToUser=false
Fragment2: onStart mIsVisibleToUser=false
Fragment3: onStart mIsVisibleToUser=true

DEMO project here

Hope it help