Getting the number of the Current Tab in Tabbed Activity

Question

First of all I am new to Android development, and I would appreciate your help.

I have a tabbed activity in android studio and I have a FloatingActionButton to add an Item in each fragment of the tabbed activity. This button then calls a new Activty and I would like to pass to the new activity the tab Number, so that I can store it in a database.

How can I get the tab Number that the new activity was generated from?

Below is the code:

 @Override
    protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_portal);


      Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
      setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

      mSectionsPagerAdapter = new SectionsPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());


      mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.container);
      mViewPager.setAdapter(mSectionsPagerAdapter);

      TabLayout tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tabs);

      mViewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new 
     TabLayout.TabLayoutOnPageChangeListener(tabLayout));
     tabLayout.addOnTabSelectedListener(new 
     TabLayout.ViewPagerOnTabSelectedListener(mViewPager));


      FloatingActionButton fab = (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.fab);
      fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {

            Intent startNewPostActivity = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), NewPostActivity.class);
            startNewPostActivity.putExtra("Fragment_Position", position_fragment);   

            startActivity(startNewPostActivity);
        }
    });



}

To get the position I was doing the following : Setting position_fragment = position; however this returns wrong tab Number.

public class SectionsPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

    public SectionsPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        // getItem is called to instantiate the fragment for the given page.
        // Return a PlaceholderFragment (defined as a static inner class below).
         position_fragment = position;  // not good
        return PlaceholderFragment.newInstance(position);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        // Show 5 total pages.
        return 5;
    }
}

}

Answer 1

Try this:

fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {

            Intent startNewPostActivity = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), NewPostActivity.class);
            startNewPostActivity.putExtra("Fragment_Position", mViewPager.getCurrentItem());   

            startActivity(startNewPostActivity);
        }
    });