Android ViewPager get the current View

I have a ViewPager, and I'd like to get the current selected and visible view, not a position.

1. getChildAt(getCurrentItem) returns wrong View

2. This works not all the time. Sometimes returns null, sometimes just returns wrong View.

    @Override
    public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
        super.setUserVisibleHint(isVisibleToUser);
   
        if (isVisibleToUser == true) { 
            mFocusedListView = ListView; 
        }
    }
   

3. PageListener on ViewPager with getChildAt() also not working, not giving me the correct View every time.

How can i get current visible View?

View view = MyActivity.mViewPager.getChildAt(MyActivity.mViewPager.getCurrentItem()).getRootView();
ListView listview = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.ListViewItems);

I've figured it out. What I did was to call setTag() with a name to all Views/ListViews, and just call findViewWithTag(mytag), mytag being the tag.

Unfortunately, there's no other way to solve this.

I just came across the same issue and resolved it by using:

View view = MyActivity.mViewPager.getFocusedChild();

I use this method with android.support.v4.view.ViewPager

View getCurrentView(ViewPager viewPager) {
        try {
            final int currentItem = viewPager.getCurrentItem();
            for (int i = 0; i < viewPager.getChildCount(); i++) {
                final View child = viewPager.getChildAt(i);
                final ViewPager.LayoutParams layoutParams = (ViewPager.LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams();

                Field f = layoutParams.getClass().getDeclaredField("position"); //NoSuchFieldException
                f.setAccessible(true);
                int position = (Integer) f.get(layoutParams); //IllegalAccessException

                if (!layoutParams.isDecor && currentItem == position) {
                    return child;
                }
            }
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        }
        return null;
    }

You can get the current element by accessing your list of itens from your adapter calling myAdapter.yourListItens.get(myViewPager.getCurrentItem()); As you can see, ViewPager can retrieve the current index of element of you adapter (current page).

If you is using FragmentPagerAdapter you can do this cast:

FragmentPagerAdapter adapter = (FragmentPagerAdapter)myViewPager.getAdapter();

and call

adapter.getItem(myViewPager.getCurrentItem());

This works very well for me ;)

During my endeavors to find a way to decorate android views I think I defined alternative solution for th OP's problem that I have documented in my blog. I am linking to it as the code seems to be a little bit too much for including everything here.

The solution I propose:

• keeps the adapter and the view entirely separated
• one can easily query for a view with any index form the view pager and he will be returned either null if this view is currently not loaded or the corresponding view.

Use an Adapter extending PagerAdapter, and override setPrimaryItem method inside your PagerAdapter.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/PagerAdapter.html

class yourPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter
{
    // .......

    @Override
    public void setPrimaryItem (ViewGroup container, int position, Object object)
    {
        int currentItemOnScreenPosition = position;
        View onScreenView = getChildAt(position);
    }

    // .......

}

If you do not have many pages and you can safely apply setOffscreenPageLimit(N-1) where N is the total number of pages without wasting too much memory then you could do the following:

public Object instantiateItem(final ViewGroup container, final int position) {		
	CustomHomeView RL = new CustomHomeView(context);
	if (position==0){
		container.setId(R.id.home_container);} ...rest of code

then here is code to access your page

((ViewGroup)pager.findViewById(R.id.home_container)).getChildAt(pager.getCurrentItem()).setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);

If you want you can set up a method for accessing a page

RelativeLayout getPageAt(int index){
	RelativeLayout rl =  ((RelativeLayout)((ViewGroup)pager.findViewById(R.id.home_container)).getChildAt(index));
	return rl;
}

Try this

 final int position = mViewPager.getCurrentItem();
    Fragment fragment = getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("android:switcher:" + R.id.rewards_viewpager + ":"
            + position);

I had to do it more general, so I decided to use the private 'position' of ViewPager.LayoutParams

        final int childCount = viewPager.getChildCount();
        for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
            final View child = viewPager.getChildAt(i);
            final ViewPager.LayoutParams lp = (ViewPager.LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams();
            int position = 0;
            try {
                Field f = lp.getClass().getDeclaredField("position");
                f.setAccessible(true);
                position = f.getInt(lp); //IllegalAccessException
            } catch (NoSuchFieldException | IllegalAccessException ex) {ex.printStackTrace();}
            if (position == viewPager.getCurrentItem()) {
                viewToDraw = child;
            }
        }

I'm using ViewPagerUtils from FabulousFilter:

ViewPagerUtils.getCurrentView(ViewPager viewPager)

viewpager.getChildAt(0)

this always returns my currently selected view. this worked for me.

is that your first activity on the screen or have you layered some above each other already?

try this:

findViewById(android.R.id.content).getRootView()

or just:

findViewById(android.R.id.content) 

also depending on what you want try:

((ViewGroup)findViewById(android.R.id.content)).getChildAt(0)

You can find fragment by system tag. It's work for me. I used it in OnMeasure function.

id - viewPager ID

position - fragment which you want to get

Important! You get this fragment if your fragment was created in adapter. So you must to check supportedFragmentManager.findFragmentByTag("android:switcher:" + id + ":" + position) nullify

You can get view like this:

supportedFragmentManager.findFragmentByTag("android:switcher:" + id + ":" + position).view

You shouldn't give custom tag in adapter

You can get it by viewpager listener to get slected item position

viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(object : ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener{
        override fun onPageScrolled(position: Int, positionOffset: Float, positionOffsetPixels: Int) {
            
        }

        override fun onPageSelected(position: Int) {
            
        }

        override fun onPageScrollStateChanged(state: Int) {
            
        }

    })

Use this method.

View getCurrentView(ViewPager viewPager) {
        try {
            final int currentItem = viewPager.getCurrentItem();
            for (int i = 0; i < viewPager.getChildCount(); i++) {
                final View child = viewPager.getChildAt(i);
                final ViewPager.LayoutParams layoutParams = (ViewPager.LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams();

                Field f = layoutParams.getClass().getDeclaredField("position"); //NoSuchFieldException
                f.setAccessible(true);
                int position = (Integer) f.get(layoutParams); //IllegalAccessException

                if (!layoutParams.isDecor && currentItem == position) {
                    return child;
                }
            }
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        }
        return null;
    }

it will may return null in androidx if anybody knows the solution comment here

Please check this

((ViewGroup))mViewPager.getChildAt(MyActivity.mViewPager.getCurrentItem()));

else verify this link.

If you examine carefully, there are at most 3 views saved by ViewPager. You can easily get the current view by

view     = MyActivity.mViewPager.getChildAt(1);