Getting the current Fragment instance in the viewpager

by selecting an option, I need to update the fragment that is currently visible.

A simple way of doing this is using a trick related to the FragmentPagerAdapter implementation:

case R.id.addText:
     Fragment page = getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("android:switcher:" + R.id.pager + ":" + ViewPager.getCurrentItem());
     // based on the current position you can then cast the page to the correct 
     // class and call the method:
     if (ViewPager.getCurrentItem() == 0 && page != null) {
          ((FragmentClass1)page).updateList("new item");     
     } 
return true;

Please rethink your variable naming convention, using as the variable name the name of the class is very confusing(so no ViewPager ViewPager, use ViewPager mPager for example).

    public class MyPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
        private Fragment mCurrentFragment;

        public Fragment getCurrentFragment() {
            return mCurrentFragment;
        }
//...    
        @Override
        public void setPrimaryItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
            if (getCurrentFragment() != object) {
                mCurrentFragment = ((Fragment) object);
            }
            super.setPrimaryItem(container, position, object);
        }
    }