Why `PagerAdapter::notifyDataSetChanged` is not updating the View?

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There are several ways to achieve this.

The first option is easier, but bit more inefficient.

Override getItemPosition in your PagerAdapter like this:

public int getItemPosition(Object object) {
    return POSITION_NONE;
}

This way, when you call notifyDataSetChanged(), the view pager will remove all views and reload them all. As so the reload effect is obtained.

The second option, suggested by Alvaro Luis Bustamante (previously alvarolb), is to setTag() method in instantiateItem() when instantiating a new view. Then instead of using notifyDataSetChanged(), you can use findViewWithTag() to find the view you want to update.

Conclusion

If you have a lot of views, or want to support modifying any specific item and/or view (fastly at any time), then the second approach (tagging) is very flexible and high performant, as it prevents recreating all the not modified views.
(Kudos to alvarolb for the original research.)

But if your App has only a “refresh” feature (without single item changes being even allowed), or has just few items, use the first approach, as it saves development time.

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