I am creating a tabbed app and I am running into a problem. onCreateView() runs when I click the tab next to where I am. What I mean is if I have three tabs (setup, maps, and motor) the onCreateView() view for maps and setup will run if I click on the motor tab. Also the onDestroyView() for motor will not run until I get two tabs away by clicking on setup. Is there anyway around this, and have them run when the specific tab is clicked or moved away from?
The reason this occurs is because you are using a ViewPager to display your tabbed content.
The ViewPager is designed to preload content in (a minimum of one of) the tabs/fragments on either side of the current tab/fragment. This is the case because Android needs to preload this content in order to display it responsively when you change/swipe between tabs/fragments in your ViewPager.
This cannot be disabled, as the minimum number of adjacent tabs you can set to be pre-loaded is 1 (meaning that the content in the tabs to the immediate left and right will always be pre-loaded when using a ViewPager).
I suggest figuring out why this is a problem for your app (as in most cases it shouldn't be), and then deciding whether or not a ViewPager is appropriate for your particular application.. as the behavior you are describing is expected for a ViewPager.