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RecyclerView inside PagerAdapter

I have a main fragment that contains a viewpager. This viewpager gets the same secondary fragment (different from the main one) but with different parameters every time. Inside the said secondary fragment that is inside the viewpager, i have a recyclerview. Inside these recyclerviews are some fields that the user fills up. When the main fragment (the one that holds the viewpager) is closed (via a button click) i need to get the data from each recyclerview. How do i to that?

The best way to solve this problem is that implement interface which will give call back to activity holding these fragment and then from Activity pass it to fragment(main) and then use viewpager to get Fragment(secondry) and pass data.
Steps one would be implent interface which will give callback to activity and the get fragment from viewpager(Link for same)

Passing ArrayList from Fragment to Activity and Using BottomNavigationView

I am having the following problem, my application has two fragments, one with a Spinner where it contains the contents of the ArrayList and another fragment containing a ListView, I want to pass the contents of the Spinner ArrayList to the Activity to send it to the other fragment, I am doing so because I'm using a BottomNavigationView. Any idea how to do it?

your Fragments have context. This context could be casted to your Activity.
in Fragment
((YourActivity) getContext()).send(contents);

Android UI fragments. Changing fragment due to button push

I'm trying to open a new fragment based on a button push in a previous fragment. What's the best way to implement this?
I'm curious if it's Activity -> .add + .commit original fragment - > from that fragment.java .replace new fragment?
Or do I need to pass an intent back up to the activity and create/replace that fragment from the activity?
So summarize: Activity A - > Fragment 1 - > Fragment 2.
I'm also slightly confused on what things I [need] to #Override. I think only onCreate and onCreateView [within each fragment]?
I'm only looking for high-level here; I want to struggle through the code myself.

Fragments are generally unaware of their host so I would use the standard callback method to call your activity and ask it to switch fragments.
Create an interface
Have your activity implement the interface.
Cast the getActivity() call to your interface.
Call the interface method.
This is much cleaner than casting the host activity and calling methods on it. It also means your fragment can be hosted in different activities with no cast errors.
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/fragments/communicating.html

You need to cast getActivity like:
((MyActivity) getActivity())
And then if you have that, you can call a method in yout activity:
((MyActivity) getActivity()).replaceFragments(Object... params);
And inside the method you should do the replace fragment process.
So simply you have the right idea.

Fragments onClick method in fragment element

I read quite some articles about fragments, but I am still confused about how to do what.
I have a MainActivity, which displays two fragments side by side. In one of the fragments I have a button and defined in the fragments layout XML for the button
android:onClick="buttonClicked"
Now I want to implement that method
public void buttonClicked(View view)
I would have assumed that this has to be implemented in FragmentA.java and not in MainActivity.java. But it only works if that method is implemented in MainActivity.java. Why is that? To me that doesn't make sense. Pre Honeycomb a method belonging to one activity stayed in that activity, now on a tablet I am merging many activities to one MainActivity and all the different methods are merged? Whatever do you put for example in FragmentA.java then? What if you have to start you an own activity because this app runs on a handheld, then the onClick method has not to be in the MainActivity but in the Activity which needs to be called then. I am pretty confused at the moment...

I'm not sure what the specific problem is, but maybe this will help.
From the Android documentation on Fragments:
You should design each fragment as a modular and reusable activity component. That is, because each fragment defines its own layout and its own behavior with its own lifecycle callbacks, you can include one fragment in multiple activities, so you should design for reuse and avoid directly manipulating one fragment from another fragment.
That is, you should never manipulate a fragment from another fragment; rather, this should be done through the underlying Activity. Read the "Creating event callbacks to the activity" section in this article for more information (it's important stuff!!).
On the other hand, if you want the button to perform an action within the Fragment itself (i.e. if you wanted a Button click to change the text of a TextView within the Fragment), you should implement this in the Fragment, not the Activity (this is because the resulting behavior is contained within the Fragment and has nothing to do with the parent Activity).
Leave a comment and I can clarify if my post is confusing... I only recently began to understand Fragment's myself :).

Well,
I guess it is related to hierarchy of android context structure.
Activity is host of all child views and hence you can say fragment is actually using its host's context.And that's why when you use onClick with fragment system always searches it in Host activity of fragment.
Check it on.
Android developer onClick attribute description
I haven't checked one thing but you could put a test.
By providing implementation in host activity rather than in fragment,but use onClick on layout file of fragment.It should call parent's method.

How do I call functions in fragment from another?

I put two fragments in an activity. What I want to do is to hide a view from say fragment A when I click a button in fragment B. I have the hiding function in fragment A but how do I call it in fragment B?
I tried:
((FragmentA)getActivity().getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_a)).hideLivePreview();
but it gives me a null pointer exception...please help

You do not want to do this in general. Fragment A and Fragment B should not directly communicate, since Fragment A and Fragment B may not both be on the screen at the same time all of the time. They might be side-by-side on a large screen but displayed via separate activities on smaller screens. IMHO, activities should mediate all communications between fragments. If you have two fragments that are too tightly coupled for that, they should not be separate fragments in the first place.
All that being said, you are getting a NullPointerException because there is no fragment with that ID in the activity.