PagerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged does not refresh fragments

My Activity contains a ViewPager and it's custom Adapter which extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter. ViewPager contains 3 fragments

Code to remove Fragments from the ViewPager

MainActivity

public void deleteElement(){
    final int currentItem = mViewPager.getCurrentItem();
    mPagerAdapter.removeItem(currentItem);
    mPagerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

CustomPagerAdapter

private ArrayList<Item> data;
public void removeItem(int index){
        data.remove(index);
}

when removing the middle Fragment (index 1):

• from data i'm removing the correct item.
• Problem is that i (i guess) Fragment 3 is removed after notifyDataSetChanged and the current Fragment is still the fragment that the user saw and the data that is being loaded is from the SavedInstance bundle

So the end result that the user still see the same Fragment that he tried to remove which is kinda suck for him.

Ideas?

***** EDIT ******

seems like ViewPager2 Features might solve this issue and many other issues as well

I know this question is a bit old, but it might be interesting to know that Google recently solved this problem with ViewPager2. See examples here

First of all, a the following dependency in your build.gradle file :

  dependencies {
     implementation 'androidx.viewpager2:viewpager2:1.0.0-beta02'
  }

Now you can replace your ViewPager in your xml file with :

    <androidx.viewpager2.widget.ViewPager2
        android:id="@+id/pager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

Then you will need to replace ViewPager by ViewPager2 in your activity

ViewPager2 needs either a RecycleView.Adapter, or a FragmentStateAdapter :

    public class TabAdapter extends FragmentStateAdapter {
        private final List<Tab> tabs;

        public TabAdapter(@NonNull FragmentManager fm, List<Tab> tabs, Lifecycle lifecycle) {
            super(fm, lifecycle);

            this.tabs = tabs;
        }

        @NonNull
        @Override
        public Fragment createFragment(int position) {
            //create your fragment here
        }

        @Override
        public int getItemCount() {
            return tabs.size();
        }

        @Override
        public long getItemId(int position) {
            // use a distinct id for each item to allow the adapter to see the changes
        }
    }

In the case you were using a TabLayout, you can use a TabLayoutMediator :

        TabLayoutMediator tabLayoutMediator = new TabLayoutMediator(tabLayout, viewPager, true, new TabLayoutMediator.OnConfigureTabCallback() {
            @Override
            public void onConfigureTab(@NotNull TabLayout.Tab tab, int position) {
                // configure your tab here
                tab.setText(tabs.get(position).getTitle());
            }
        });

        tabLayoutMediator.attach();

In order to remove data, after removing the item from your collection you can either call the notifyDataSetChanged() method or more specifically the notifyItemRemoved() with the position of removed item