hello, Paul!

how can I help you today?

Hi Mark! I'm having a bit of a problem trying to implement my own fragment inside view pagers

I feel like I might be losing context perhaps?

I could use some context about you losing context :-)

oh I'm sorry I just realized that you actually answered my question on SO

ah, yes

you use the SO bump

er, you used the SO bump

hehe yes I didn't have a chance to check back at my desk until just now

I don't know for certain that the nested-fragment issue is the source of your problem, but I'd start there

dah I wonder if it was that simple

what made it hard to debug was that it would work infrequently

sometimes it would update the correct viewpager, sometimes it wouldn't

BTW, you had answered an earlier question a long time ago which had made me wonder who this "commonsware" guy was

thank you for being so helpful!

you are very welcome

if that doesn't solve the problem, post a comment on my answer

okay will do! I'll have to spin it up when I get back to my office tomorrow

thanks again!

if you have another question, go right ahead -- nobody else is lined up at the moment

okay thanks! Actually I just read your last sentance on SO

what would be in place of the detail fragment?

um, just the widgets that right now the fragment manages

in order to avoid nested fragments

when the user taps on a different work order, you update the widgets that are there with the new contentes

er, contents

rather than wiping them out and replacing them with brand-new widgets in a brand-new fragment

wow okay

just to understand in my "context", I would actually just get rid of the detail fragment and work with the details as a widget inside PageFragment itself?

well, I presume that the details is more than just a single widget

but otherwise, yes

now, I don't know what your vision is for your UI on smaller screens

the screenshot that you posted in the SO question is clearly tablet-sized

well fortunately I know my target audience, which will be tablets

oh, well, that's easy enough

I have been toying with the idea of a master/detail flow

which was why I did that detail fragment

and then worked from that, to a viewpager sliding tabs

there's nothing wrong with using a ViewPager

there's nothing wrong with master-detail

there's nothing in theory wrong with having master-detail inside of pages of a ViewPager

but wild horses can't get me to use nested fragments

haha

no I like that though much better

especially when it comes to saving states

and the whole android life cycles

Thanks again Mark! I'll have to give this a shot tomorrow, I'll be curious if the childfragmentmanager was my hiccup

but I might have to just alter my program altogether anyways now

thanks again! ttyl!

good luck!