Switching between Android Navigation Drawer image and Up caret when using fragments

It's easy as 1-2-3.

If you want to achieve:

1) Drawer Indicator - when no fragments are in the Back Stack or the Drawer is opened

2) Arrow - when some Fragments are in the Back Stack

private FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener
        mOnBackStackChangedListener = new FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onBackStackChanged() {
        syncActionBarArrowState();
    }
};

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    mDrawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(
            this,             
            mDrawerLayout,  
            R.drawable.ic_navigation_drawer, 
            0, 
            0  
    ) {

        public void onDrawerClosed(View view) {
            syncActionBarArrowState();
        }

        public void onDrawerOpened(View drawerView) {
            mDrawerToggle.setDrawerIndicatorEnabled(true);
        }
    };

    mDrawerLayout.setDrawerListener(mDrawerToggle);
    getSupportFragmentManager().addOnBackStackChangedListener(mOnBackStackChangedListener);
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    getSupportFragmentManager().removeOnBackStackChangedListener(mOnBackStackChangedListener);
    super.onDestroy();
}

private void syncActionBarArrowState() {
    int backStackEntryCount = 
        getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryCount();
    mDrawerToggle.setDrawerIndicatorEnabled(backStackEntryCount == 0);
}

3) Both indicators to act according to their shape

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    if (mDrawerToggle.isDrawerIndicatorEnabled() && 
        mDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item)) {
        return true;
    } else if (item.getItemId() == android.R.id.home && 
               getSupportFragmentManager().popBackStackImmediate()) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

P.S. See Creating a Navigation Drawer on Android Developers on other tips about the 3-lines indicator behavior.

You have written that, to implement lower-level fragments, you are replacing the existing fragment, as opposed to implementing the lower-level fragment in a new activity.

I would think that you would then have to implement the back functionality manually: when the user pressed back you have code that pops the stack (e.g. in Activity::onBackPressed override). So, wherever you do that, you can reverse the setDrawerIndicatorEnabled.

I've used next thing:

getSupportFragmentManager().addOnBackStackChangedListener(new FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onBackStackChanged() {
                if(getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryCount() > 0){
                    mDrawerToggle.setDrawerIndicatorEnabled(false);
                    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
                }
                else {
                    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
                    mDrawerToggle.setDrawerIndicatorEnabled(true);
                }
            }
        });