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Android. How to avoid fragment be recreated when back from another fragment?

I'm using MVP in my project. I have an activity. Inside this activity I'm showing fragment. Fragment contains some data, edit text, buttons etc. From this fragment it is possible to navigate to another fragment. Here is my code for showing another fragment:
getParentFragmentManager()
.beginTransaction()
.replace(R.id.main_container, secondFragment)
.addToBackStack(null)
.commitAllowingStateLoss();
Next, when I try to go back from fragment 2 to fragment 1, my fragment one is re-created.The method onViewCreated() is called again with saveedInstanceState = null. Also in the onViewCreated() I call presenter.onCreate(savedInstanceState) and because of this, all requests that should be called when I first enter the fragment are re-called when I back to first fragment.
As far as I understand, when calling a .replace(container, fragment), I cannot avoid recreating the fragment view, but in this case, how can I save all my data in the presenter so that I do not re-execute all requests when returning to the fragment?
P.S. With .add() fragment is not recreated. But in my activity I have toolbar with title, and I don't need it to show in my second fragment. When I open my second fragment with .replace() toolbar is not showing, but when open with .add() toolbar is showing.

Use Fragment Result API :
For implemention this method set - setFragmentResultListener - in source fragment and also set - setResult() and finish() - in destination fragment
Note 1 : for having clean code i suggest you to use FragmentTransaction class in:
https://github.com/mahditavakoli1312/FragmentTransaction---mahdi-tavakoli
Note 2 : use Navigation for navigate betwin fragments and activities Instead tranastion

Fragment does not call lifecycle methods

I've a fragment A. I add() it with tag like this:
fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack(special_tag);
Then I simply add() fragment B on top of fragment A. After that, I decide to remove fragment B and go back to fragment A using:
activity.fragmentManager.popBackStackImmediate(special_tag, 0)
When I reach the fragment A, it seems that fragment doesn't re-run it's lifecycle methods: onAttach(), onResume(), onCreate() ect.
Can someone explain this behavior and maybe suggest an alternative?
(I need to "refresh" the data when I come back to fragment A second time)
What is causing this result?
Is there a clean solution/work-around?
Update
Fragment B is GuidedStepFragment and does not have a .replace() function. I found that it has finishGuidedStepFragments(), but it behaves the same (it does not call fragment life cycle functions)
Situation (again):
Fragment A (Simple fragment) -> .add(Fragment B) (GuidedStepFragment) -> popBackStackImmediate() or finishGuidedStepFragments()
I add Fragment B like this:
GuidedStepFragment.add(activity.fragmentManager, fragmentB.createInstance())

Using fragmentTransaction.add(Fragment) doesn't remove Fragment A. What is actually happening is that Fragment A is still running behind Fragment B. Since Fragment A never stopped running, it's lifecycle has no need to retrigger.
Consider using fragmentTransaction.replace(Fragment) and replace the fragment in the container (fragment A) with fragment B. If you pop that transaction from the back stack, then Fragment A will reattach and follow your expected lifecycle.
Update
Since you seem to be using GuidedStepFragments from the leanback library, this is a little tricky. GuidedStepFragment actually performs replace(...) under the hood, but you're adding fragment B to a different container so the original behavior I mentioned doesn't apply.
I'm not super familiar with leanback (since it's usually only used for android tv), but I do know that you can at least do the following. If you keep track of your backstack size, when all of the GuidedStepFragments have been popped, you will have returned to your original fragment. For example, let's assume your backstack starts at zero:
activity.fragmentManager.addOnBackStackChangedListener(new FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener() {
#Override
public void onBackStackChanged() {
if (activity.fragmentManager.getBackStackEntryCount() == 0){
// handle your updates
}
}
});
// the next line of code will add an entry to the backstack
GuidedStepFragment.add(activity.fragmentManager, fragmentB.createInstance());
// eventually when back is pressed and the guided fragment is removed, the backstack listener should trigger

Fragment recreation on back from another activity

I have two activities, A and B.
Activity A, has one fragment F, added dynamically via a transaction. From F, I start activity B (F.getActivity.startActivity(intent)). When I press the back button, F gets recreated. Can I avoid that?
If not, I understand I can save the fragment state, but the savedInstanceState bundle is always null. I found you must set an id in the XML, but as the fragment is dynamically created, I don't know how to set it.
Thanks.

you can manage it by adding fragment to backstack by below code
fragmentTransaction.add(R.id.containerView, fragment);
fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack("test");
and pop back the fragment state by below one
fragmentManager.popBackStack("test", FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
hope this will be helpful.

No view found for id when popping backstack without adding to backstack

I am working on an Android app and have encountered an error involving Fragments and FragmentTransactions. I have created an example app to demonstrate the problem. Here is what I am doing:
add Fragment1 to fragmentSpace, without adding to backstack.
replace fragmentSpace with Fragment2, adding to backstack as "beginning".
add Fragment3 to fragmentSpace2 (which is inside of Fragment2), without adding to backstack.
replace fragmentSpace2 with Fragment4, adding to backstack as null.
Call getFragmentManager().popBackStack("beginning", FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE); in an attempt to undo all the Transactions, which should bring the user back to seeing only Fragment1.
However, the app crashes on step 5 with this error:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No view found for id 0x7f090004 (me.MitchT.testfragmenttransactions:id/fragmentSpace2) for fragment Fragment3{7f35cb6 #2 id=0x7f090004}
at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:886)
at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1067)
at android.app.BackStackRecord.popFromBackStack(BackStackRecord.java:1645)
...
I have found that if I add step 3 to the backstack, step 5 no longer crashes the app and there is no more error. Why?
The problem I have with adding step 3 to the backstack is that I want the user to be able to press the back button after Fragment3 is added and go back to Fragment1. If I add it to the backstack, then when the user presses the back button it removes Fragment3, but Fragment2 is still visible, so they must press the back button again. I am trying to avoid that double-back-button behavior.
I did not feel it was necessary to post the code for every single file in the example app on this question, so instead I created a gist.
So I guess my questions are:
Why do I get this error?
Why don't I get the error after adding step 3 to the backstack?
Is there a better way of "going back to the beginning" or going back two fragments at a time?
Thanks!

From what i understand. You have a fragment layout which is the container in activity
Activity hosts Fragment1. Then you replace Fragment 1 by Fragment 2 ( added to back stack.
At this stage clicking back button you will have fragment2 popped and you see the activity which hosts fragment1.
Fragment2 has a framelayout which holds fragment3. Then you have Fragment4 replacing fragment3 which is added to back stack.
Now clicking the button you have getFragmentManager().popBackStack("beginning", FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);. But there is no view with that id.
Just use popBackStack(). Fragment4 --> Fragment2 ( hosting fragment3) --> Fragment1 ( hosted by the activity).
If you want Fragment4 to Activity hosting Fragment1 don't add Fragment4 to the back stack.
Note : In case you want nested fragments you need to use getChildFragmentManager(). https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html
Also note the discussion in the comments sections and the link posted by op Is this the right way to clean-up Fragment back stack when leaving a deeply nested stack?

FragmentManager popBackStack doesn't remove fragment

I'm implementing menu navigation using Fragments. So I begin with Home, and then users can navigate to diferent sections and details of each section.
When a user changes section, then I call pop on the fragmentmanager backstack until I reach Home, and then load the new section.
This is all working as expected. But I'm getting this problem:
load a section that calls setHasOptionsMenu(true) on onResume()
loads another section (old section it's suposed to get out of the stack). I see it OK. No menu is shown
leave the application (for example, go to Android Laucher activity) and then when I return, I see the correct section, but it's showing the Menu of the old Fragment.
I've iterated the backstack and printed each fragment, and there it's not the fragment with the menu.
I put a debug mark on the onResume() method (where the setHasOptionsMenu(true) is flagged) and it indeed enters here, so the Fragment it's still somewhere.
I want to know if I'm doing something wrong and how could I solve it, thx
Update:
I'm using this code to load new fragments
fm.beginTransaction()
.add(container, sectionFragment.getFragment())
.addToBackStack(sectionFragment.getFragmentName())
.commit();
And for remove:
private void clearStack(){
int count = fm.getBackStackEntryCount();
while(count > 1){
fm.popBackStack();
count--;
}
}
NOTE 1: I'm using add instead replace because I don't want to loose the state of my fragment when I navigate back from detail section. When I load another different section, then I call clearStack to pop the stack up to 1, and then loads new fragment. At the end, I'm calling executePendingTransactions() to finish to remove the fragments from the transaction.
NOTE 2: I'm seeing that it is entering on my fragment onDestroy() method, so it is suposed to be destroyed. But I don't know why it is getting called again when the Main activity resumes.

I found that the problem was not in the logic of adding and removing fragment of the stack.
The problem was that some of the fragment loaded another fragments inside of it (it had ViewPager component). Then I thought that when the fragment was removed then these fragments were removed too.
This is true ONLY if you use getChildFragmentManager() method. This method MUST be used when loading fragments inside other fragmets. If not, then the fragments are asociated with the fragments activity.

popBackStack will just revert your last FragmentTransaction.
If you use FragmentTransaction.add, popBackStack will just call FragmentTransacetion.remove.
But if you call FragmentTransaction.replace, popBackStack will call FragmentTransaction.remove and FragmentTransaction.add
For your "NOTE 1" :
FragmentTransaction.replace will not change your fragment state.

I found this question, because after calling
fragmentManager.popBackStack(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
this code fragmentManager.getFragments().size() returns me the maximum number of fragments, which were in the stack. I checked every fragment on null. And I found that some fragment is null in my case. Maybe it will help someone)

If you are really looking to remove fragments at once then follow:
How to replace Fragments of different types?
Otherwise use replace transaction for fragments to smooth transitiona and hassel free approach, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/23013075/3176433
Also understand Fragment lifecycle,
http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html

I had a similar problem where the popBackStack() didn't remove my fragment.
However, I noticed that I called the wrong FragmentManager, where I had to call getSupportFragmentMananger() instead of getFragmentManager().

Maybe there is a <fragment> or <androidx.fragment.app.FragmentContainerView> in an activity with android:name="androidx.navigation.fragment.NavHostFragment", app:defaultNavHost="true" and app:navGraph="#navigation/nav_graph".
In this case navigation is held by nav_graph. If you don't want to use NavController and NavHostFragment, maybe you should remove navigation and clean <fragment> tag.