I'm working on implementing ViewPager and I want to let the host activity load the background data (from the Internet) instead of each fragment doing an independent I/O request. The reason why is because the same data is being loaded into two fragments, with the only difference being a category. I have two instances of ViewPager in my app, where this scenario holds true (two different types of data, but each being split by only a category). If I can let the host activity fetch the data in the background, I'll be saving 2 API calls every time the app is used.
I want to let the ViewPager and it's fragments know when to update themselves when the background load is finished so I can fetch the data once and pass it down into the fragments. However, I can't seem to find any examples of this. I've tried getting the fragments from the adapter when the data load is complete, but I'm running into various synchronization problems. I've tried calling notifyDataSetChanged on the adapter (subclass of FragmentPagerAdapter), but it doesn't appear to do anything. Another piece to this puzzle is that I'm using ViewPagerIndicator to get the title effect seen in the Android Market and Google+ apps. I've tried not initializing the FragmentPagerAdapter, ViewPager, and TitlePageIndicator until after the data load is complete, but I'm seeing the TitlePageIndicator attempt to be drawn anyway and failing when calculating the bounds since it hasn't been given a ViewPager instance just yet. Has anyone else tried to use the ViewPager is this scenario? I think if I found a nice outline of how the ViewPager's lifecycle works, I would have better luck in figuring this workflow out. Every example I can find lets the fragments self contain everything, which I completely understand the reasoning behind and will go that route if necessary but would love to cut the required network I/O requests if possible. -- Chris Stewart -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
