[android] How to know if a Fragment is Visible?

Just in case you use a Fragment layout with a ViewPager (TabLayout), you can easily ask for the current (in front) fragment by ViewPager.getCurrentItem() method. It will give you the page index.

Mapping from page index to fragment[class] should be easy as you did the mapping in your FragmentPagerAdapter derived Adapter already.

int i = pager.getCurrentItem();

You may register for page change notifications by

ViewPager pager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.container);
pager.addOnPageChangeListener(this);

Of course you must implement interface ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener

public class MainActivity 
    extends AppCompatActivity
    implements ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener
{
    public void onPageSelected (int position)
    {
        // we get notified here when user scrolls/switches Fragment in ViewPager -- so
        // we know which one is in front.
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, "current page " + String.valueOf(position), Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
        toast.show();
    }

    public void onPageScrolled (int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
    }

    public void onPageScrollStateChanged (int state) {
    }
}

My answer here might be a little off the question. But as a newbie to Android Apps I was just facing exactly this problem and did not find an answer anywhere. So worked out above solution and posting it here -- perhaps someone finds it useful.

Edit: You might combine this method with LiveData on which the fragments subscribe. Further on, if you give your Fragments a page index as constructor argument, you can make a simple amIvisible() function in your fragment class.

In MainActivity:

private final MutableLiveData<Integer> current_page_ld = new MutableLiveData<>();
public LiveData<Integer> getCurrentPageIdx() { return current_page_ld; }

public void onPageSelected(int position) {
    current_page_ld.setValue(position);
}

public class MyPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter
{
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        // getItem is called to instantiate the fragment for the given page: But only on first
        // creation -- not on restore state !!!
        // see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35677363/3290848
        switch (position) {
            case 0:
                return MyFragment.newInstance(0);
            case 1:
                return OtherFragment.newInstance(1);
            case 2:
                return XYFragment.newInstance(2);
        }
        return null;
    }
}

In Fragment:

    public static MyFragment newInstance(int index) {
        MyFragment fragment = new MyFragment();
        Bundle args = new Bundle();
        args.putInt("idx", index);
        fragment.setArguments(args);
        return fragment;
    }

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        if (getArguments() != null) {
            mPageIndex = getArguments().getInt(ARG_PARAM1);
        }
        ...
    }
    
    public void onAttach(Context context)
    {
        super.onAttach(context);
        MyActivity mActivity = (MyActivity)context;

        mActivity.getCurrentPageIdx().observe(this, new Observer<Integer>() {
            @Override
            public void onChanged(Integer data) {
                if (data == mPageIndex) {
                    // have focus
                } else {
                    // not in front
                }
            }
        });
    }