What event is triggered when a tab fragment is selected

Question

I\'m using tab fragments in an activity and the actionbar hosts the tabs. What I want to do is that whenever a fragment appears (or re-appears) in the view (selected by the

Answer 1

Try setUserVisibleHint() in the fragment as described in this answer. When the fragment is in the selected tab, setUserVisibleHint() will be called with true, and when the fragment is not the selected tab, setUserVisibleHint() will be called with false. This works for me using the support library.

@Override
public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
    super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);

    if (isVisibleToUser)
        Log.d("MyFragment", "Fragment is visible.");
    else
        Log.d("MyFragment", "Fragment is not visible.");
}