android - ViewModel onchange gets called multiple times when back from Fragment

Question

I am working with Android architecture components. What i want is when user type "0" in Edittext and click on Button to replace Fragment with new one , and if type anything else post Toast error message. In Problem is when i back from new Fragment(BlankFragment) and click on button again and type "0" again and click, onchange() is called multiple times so Fragment is get created multiple times

FragmentExample.class:

     @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        manager = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();
        viewmModel = ViewModelProviders.of(getActivity(), viewModelFactory)
                .get(VModel.class);

        View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_list, container, false);   
        b = (Button) v.findViewById(R.id.b);
        et = (EditText) v.findViewById(R.id.et);

        viewmModel.observeData().observe(getActivity(), new Observer<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onChanged(@Nullable String s) {

                if(s.equals("0")) {
                    BlankFragment fragment = (BlankFragment) manager.findFragmentByTag(DETAIL_FRAG);
                    if (fragment == null) {
                        fragment = BlankFragment.newInstance();
                    }
                    addFragmentToActivity(manager,
                            fragment,
                            R.id.root_activity_detail,
                            DETAIL_FRAG
                    );
                } else {
                    Toast.makeText(getContext(), "Wrong text", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            }
        });

        b.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                viewmModel.setData(et.getText().toString());
            }
        });
        return v;
    }
    private void addFragmentToActivity(FragmentManager fragmentManager, BlankFragment fragment, int root_activity_detail, String detailFrag) {
        android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction transaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
        transaction.replace(root_activity_detail, fragment, detailFrag).addToBackStack(detailFrag);
        transaction.commit();
    }

Repository class:

    public class Repository {
    MutableLiveData<String> dataLive = new MutableLiveData<>();  

    public Repository() {

    }

    public void setListData(String data) {
       dataLive.setValue(data);
    }

    public MutableLiveData<String> getData() {
        return dataLive;
    }
}

BlankFragment.class:

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        listItemViewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this, viewModelFactory)
                .get(VModel.class);
        listItemViewModel.setData("");
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_blank, container, false);
    }

Answer 1

The problem here is that when you dettach the fragment from the acitivity, both fragment and its viewmodel are not destroyed. When you come back, you add a new observer to the livedata when the old observer is still there in the same fragment （If you add the observer in onCreateView()）. There is an article (Even a SO thread in fact) talking about it (with solution).

The easy way to fix it (also in the article) is that remove any observer from the livedata before you add observer to it.

Update: In the support lib v28, a new LifeCycleOwner called ViewLifeCycleOwner should fix that more info in here