Android getActivity() always returns null inside fragment

Question

I have a strange problem in which I encountered:The getActivity() method always returns null inside fragment. I calling it after the onAttach() and onCreateView() are finishing their run.

This fragment lives inside a FragmentActivity() that contains stack of fragments, and the way I adding fragment to it is:

(This code is being called from the onCreate() of the Fragment Activity())

SmartFragment fragment;
fragment = (SmartFragment) Fragment.instantiate(this,
fragmentClassName, params);     
mStackOfFragments.add(fragment);
FragmentTransaction trans = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
trans.add(R.id.tabcontent, fragment);
trans.addToBackStack(null);
trans.commitAllowingStateLoss();

I hope it is clear enough

Edit 1:

The call to getActivity():

protected OnDoneListener nDoneListener = new OnDoneListener() {

    @Override
    public void OnDone(final int counter, final String name) {


        if (getActivity() != null)
            ((TabActivity) getActivity()).RunOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

... ...

This callback is being called from a different class.

Edit 2:

class MemoryManager()
{

    private OnDoneListener nDoneListener;

    public void setOnDoneListener(OnDoneListener onDoneListener)
    {
    this.onDoneListner = onDoneListener;
    }

    public void updateUiOnRequestFinish()
    {
      onDoneListener.onDone();
    }

}

The MemoryManaget itself calls to updateUiOnRequestFinish() from a different callback

Edit 3:

The FragmentManager logs are:

04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): Commit: BackStackEntry{41f9bd60}
`04-08 18:44:05.950: D/FragmentManager(16280):   mName=null mIndex=-1 mCommitted=false
04-08 18:44:05.950: D/FragmentManager(16280):   Operations:
04-08 18:44:05.950: D/FragmentManager(16280):     Op #0: ADD FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 id=0x7f070126}
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): Setting back stack index 0 to BackStackEntry{41f9bd60}
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): Run: BackStackEntry{41f9bd60 #0}
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): Bump nesting in BackStackEntry{41f9bd60 #0} by 1
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): Bump nesting of FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 id=0x7f070126} to 1
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): add: FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 id=0x7f070126}
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): Allocated fragment index FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 #0 id=0x7f070126}
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): moveto CREATED: FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 #0 id=0x7f070126}
04-08 18:44:05.950: V/FragmentManager(16280): moveto ACTIVITY_CREATED: FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 #0 id=0x7f070126}
04-08 18:44:05.990: V/FragmentManager(16280): moveto STARTED: FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 #0 id=0x7f070126}
04-08 18:44:06.030: V/FragmentManager(16280): moveto RESUMED: FragmentMyProfile{41f9bc20 #0 id=0x7f070126}
`

And it looks fine to me. So I'm guessing that this bug relates to the way I call the getActivity() from the callback.

Answer 1

This problem can be for used getActivity() of "android.app.Fragment" or "android.support.v4.app.Fragment"

if your are using "android.support.v4.app.Fragment" you need to review if you aren't using getActivity from "android.app.Fragment" or vice versa.