Fragments Onresume from Back Stack

Fragment onResume() & onPause() is not called on backstack

The fragments onResume() or onPause() will be called only when the Activities onResume() or onPause() is called.
They are tightly coupled to the Activity.

Read the Handling the Fragment Lifecycle section of this article.

Fragments onResume from back stack

For a lack of a better solution, I got this working for me:
Assume I have 1 activity (MyActivity) and few fragments that replaces each other (only one is visible at a time).

In MyActivity, add this listener:

getSupportFragmentManager().addOnBackStackChangedListener(getListener());

(As you can see I'm using the compatibility package).

getListener implementation:

private OnBackStackChangedListener getListener()
    {
        OnBackStackChangedListener result = new OnBackStackChangedListener()
        {
            public void onBackStackChanged() 
            {                   
                FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();

                if (manager != null)
                {
                    MyFragment currFrag = (MyFragment) manager.findFragmentById(R.id.fragmentItem);

                    currFrag.onFragmentResume();
                }                   
            }
        };

        return result;
    }

MyFragment.onFragmentResume() will be called after a "Back" is pressed. few caveats though:

1. It assumes you added all
   transactions to the backstack (using
   FragmentTransaction.addToBackStack())
2. It will be activated upon each stack
   change (you can store other stuff in
   the back stack such as animation) so
   you might get multiple calls for the
   same instance of fragment.

refresh the fragment when getting back from an activity or pressing back

I fixed the issue by replacing onStop() function to onPause() since the activity is not getting destroyed and it no longer loop the createRecentlyViewedButton() function hope this help somebody

here are the changes I made though

override fun onPause() {
    super.onPause()
    shouldRefreshOnResume = true
}

and

   override fun onResume() {
        super.onResume()
        //shoudRefreshOnResume is a global var
        if (shouldRefreshOnResume) {
        val recentlyViewed = activity?.findViewById<LinearLayout>(R.id.recently_viewedView)
        createRecentlyViewedButton(recentlyViewed!!)
        }
    }

How to resume existing Fragment from BackStack

Reading the documentation, there is a way to pop the back stack based on either the transaction name or the id provided by commit. Using the name may be easier since it shouldn't require keeping track of a number that may change and reinforces the "unique back stack entry" logic.

Since you want only one back stack entry per Fragment, make the back state name the Fragment's class name (via getClass().getName()). Then when replacing a Fragment, use the popBackStackImmediate() method. If it returns true, it means there is an instance of the Fragment in the back stack. If not, actually execute the Fragment replacement logic.

private void replaceFragment (Fragment fragment){
  String backStateName = fragment.getClass().getName();

  FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();
  boolean fragmentPopped = manager.popBackStackImmediate (backStateName, 0);

  if (!fragmentPopped){ //fragment not in back stack, create it.
    FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction();
    ft.replace(R.id.content_frame, fragment);
    ft.addToBackStack(backStateName);
    ft.commit();
  }
}

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EDIT

The problem is - when i launch A and then B, then press back button, B
is removed and A is resumed. and pressing again back button should
exit the app. But it is showing a blank window and need another press
to close it.

This is because the FragmentTransaction is being added to the back stack to ensure that we can pop the fragments on top later. A quick fix for this is overriding onBackPressed() and finishing the Activity if the back stack contains only 1 Fragment

@Override
public void onBackPressed(){
  if (getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryCount() == 1){
    finish();
  }
  else {
    super.onBackPressed();
  }
}

Regarding the duplicate back stack entries, your conditional statement that replaces the fragment if it hasn't been popped is clearly different than what my original code snippet's. What you are doing is adding to the back stack regardless of whether or not the back stack was popped.

Something like this should be closer to what you want:

private void replaceFragment (Fragment fragment){
  String backStateName =  fragment.getClass().getName();
  String fragmentTag = backStateName;

  FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();
  boolean fragmentPopped = manager.popBackStackImmediate (backStateName, 0);

  if (!fragmentPopped && manager.findFragmentByTag(fragmentTag) == null){ //fragment not in back stack, create it.
    FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction();
    ft.replace(R.id.content_frame, fragment, fragmentTag);
    ft.setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_FADE);
    ft.addToBackStack(backStateName);
    ft.commit();
  } 
}

The conditional was changed a bit since selecting the same fragment while it was visible also caused duplicate entries.

Implementation:

I highly suggest not taking the the updated replaceFragment() method apart like you did in your code. All the logic is contained in this method and moving parts around may cause problems.

This means you should copy the updated replaceFragment() method into your class then change

backStateName = fragmentName.getClass().getName();
fragmentPopped = manager.popBackStackImmediate(backStateName, 0);
if (!fragmentPopped) {
            ft.replace(R.id.content_frame, fragmentName);
}
ft.setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_FADE);
ft.addToBackStack(backStateName);
ft.commit();

so it is simply

replaceFragment (fragmentName);

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EDIT #2

To update the drawer when the back stack changes, make a method that accepts in a Fragment and compares the class names. If anything matches, change the title and selection. Also add an OnBackStackChangedListener and have it call your update method if there is a valid Fragment.

For example, in the Activity's onCreate(), add

getSupportFragmentManager().addOnBackStackChangedListener(new OnBackStackChangedListener() {

  @Override
  public void onBackStackChanged() {
    Fragment f = getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.content_frame);
    if (f != null){
      updateTitleAndDrawer (f);
    }

  }
});

And the other method:

private void updateTitleAndDrawer (Fragment fragment){
  String fragClassName = fragment.getClass().getName();

  if (fragClassName.equals(A.class.getName())){
    setTitle ("A");
    //set selected item position, etc
  }
  else if (fragClassName.equals(B.class.getName())){
    setTitle ("B");
    //set selected item position, etc
  }
  else if (fragClassName.equals(C.class.getName())){
    setTitle ("C");
    //set selected item position, etc
  }
}

Now, whenever the back stack changes, the title and checked position will reflect the visible Fragment.

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