Android Lifecycle management of Fragments within ViewPager and FragmentPagerAdapter

Question

I have been struggling to find out what the correct management of Fragments within a FragmentActivity with a ViewPager is. Before I go into details

Answer 1

I believe that this question, about retrieving the current fragment from a ViewPager, will help you. As already pointed out, fragments are managed by the Fragment(State)PagerAdapter and NOT Activity's or Fragment's lifecycle.

• The first time the activity is created, fragments are returned by the getItem method. This method is called only once per fragment, even if the activity gets recreated.
• Subsequent times, the fragments are returned by the instantiateItem method. Most probably, this is the place, where you need to get hold of your fragments and call their refresh methods.