 <p>I'm using BroadcastReceivers to solve these kind of problems to avoid problems related to the Android lifecicle.</p> <p>The basic idea of broadcast receiver is a publisher-subscriber, the interested fragmets should register with an appropriate intent filter to the events they're interested in and the activity should be spamming events.</p> <p>More about broadcast receivers at <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html" rel="nofollow">https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html</a></p>