ViewPager2 default position - android

I'm creating a slideshow with ViewPager2. For example, the slideshow has 3 items and I want to show the second item when the activity opens. I use setCurrentItem(int item, boolean smoothScroll) method but it doesn't work and nothing happens. How can I achieve it?
viewPager.adapter = adapter
viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true)

I think an easier more reliable fix is to defer to next run cycle instead of unsecure delay e.g
viewPager.post {
viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true)
}

setCurrentItem(int item, boolean smoothScroll) works correctly in ViewPager but in ViewPager2 it does not work as expected. Finally, I faced this problem by adding setCurrentItem(int item, boolean smoothScroll) method into a delay like this:
Handler().postDelayed({
view.viewPager.setCurrentItem(startPosition, false)
}, 100)

Do not use timers, you will run into a lot of probable states in which the user has a slow phone and it actually takes a lot longer than 100 ms to run, also, you wouldn't want too slow of a timer making it ridiculously un-reliable.
Below we do the following, we set a listener to our ViewTreeObserver and wait until a set number of children have been laid out in our ViewPager2's RecyclerView (it's inner working). Once we are sure x number of items have been laid out, we start our no-animation scroll to start at the position.
val recyclerView = (Your ViewPager2).getChildAt(0)
recyclerView.apply {
val itemCount = adapter?.itemCount ?: 0
if(itemCount >= #(Position you want to scroll to)) {
viewTreeObserver.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(object: ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener {
override fun onGlobalLayout() {
viewTreeObserver.removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this)
// False for without animation scroll
(Your ViewPager2).scrollToPosition(#PositionToStartAt, false)
}
}
}

First off, I think that the accepted answer shouldn't be #hosseinAmini 's, since it's suggesting to use a delay to work around the problem. You should first be looking for what the assumed bug is caused by, rather than trusting unreasonable solutions like that.
#Rune's proposal is correct, instead; so I'm quoting their code in my answer:
viewPager.post {
viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true)
}
The only thing I'd argue about is the aforementioned one's belief that their solution is just deferring the execution of that lambda in the next run cycle. This wouldn't make anything buggy work properly. Rather, what it is actually being done is deferring the execution of that lambda to once the view has been attached to a window, which implies it's also been added to a parent view. Indeed, there looks to be an issue as to changing the current ViewPager2 item before being attached to a window. Some evidence to support this claim follows:
Using whichever Handler won't work nearly as effectively.
Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post {
viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true) // Not working properly
}
From a theoretical standpoint, it might incidentally work due to the ViewPager2 being attached to a window acquiring priority in the message queue of the main looper, but this shouldn't ever be relied upon as there's just no guarantee that it'll work (it's even more likely it won't) and if it even turned out to be working, further investigation running multiple tests should make my point clear.
View.handler gets null, which means the view hasn't been attached to any window yet.
View.handler // = null
Despite Android UI being tied to the main looper, which will always uniquely correspond to the main thread –hence also called the UI thread,– a weird design choice stands in the handler not being associated to each view until they get attached to a window. A reason why this may lay on the consequent inability of views to schedule any work on the main thread while they're not part of the hierarchy, which may turn useful when implementing a view controller that schedules view updates while unaware of their lifecycle (in which case it would employ the View's handler, if any — or just skip scheduling whatever it was going to if none).
EDIT:
Also, #josias has pointed out in a comment that it'd be clearer to use:
viewPager.doOnAttach {
viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true)
}
Thanks for that suggestion! It expresses better the actual intent, rather than relying on the behavior of the View.post method.

Do not use timers and all that stuff with 'post', it's not the reliable solution and just a piece of code that smells.
Instead, try use viewPager.setCurrentItem(1, false). That 'false' is about smoothScroll, you can't smooth scroll your viewPager2 when your activity is just opened. Tested it on a fragment in onViewCreated() method, it also didn't work with "true", but works with "false"

As it was mentioned above you have to use setCurrentItem(position, smoothScroll) method on ViewPager2 in order to show selected item. To make it work you have to define a callback, here is an example:
ViewPager2.OnPageChangeCallback callback = new ViewPager2.OnPageChangeCallback() {
#Override
public void onPageSelected(int position) {
super.onPageSelected(position);
}
};
And then you have to register it as follow:
viewPager.registerOnPageChangeCallback(callback);
Also do not forget to unregister it:
viewPager.unregisterOnPageChangeCallback(callback);
When you call setCurrentItem(position) method it will call onPageSelected(int position) method from your callback passing your argument, and then method createFragment(int position) from FragmentStateAdapter class will be called to show your fragment.

I tried changing viewpager2 page in Handler().dely() and viewPager2.post{} and even 'viewPager2.get(0).post all didn't work for me, I'm using ViewPager with FragmentStateAdapter with Tablayout.
What worked for me is changing the position of the RecylerView in ViewPager2 after binding FragmentStateAdapter to yourViewPager2View.adapter manually:
(yourViewPager2View[0] as RecyclerView).scrollToPosition(moveToTabNumber)
Why
My problem is onCreateFragment(position:Int):Fragmeet function in FragmentStateAdapter always starting fragment at 0 position no matter what pageNumber I set the page
viewPager.setCurrentItem = pageNumber
I checked where it's called in FragmentStateAdapter it's called in FragmentStateAdapter:
onBindViewHolder(final #NonNull FragmentViewHolder holder, int position)`
so all I needed is to force onBindViewHolder to call onCreateFragment(position:Int) with the page number I wanted.

mViewPager.setCurrentItem(1, true); ---> this is sufficient as you written above
That should work,
in doubt, just check your position:
#Override
public void onPageSelected(int i) {
if (LOG_DEBUG) Log.v(TAG, " ++++++++ onPageSelected: " + i);
mViewPager.setCurrentItem(i);
//TODO You can use this position: to write other dependent logic
}
and also check
getItem(int position) in PagerAdapter
or else paste your code.

I noticed that it works fine when the view is initially created if you opt to not animate it.
viewPager2.setCurrentItem(index, false)
This is usually fine depending on your use case - this initial/default item probably doesn't need to be animated in.

I met the same problem. In my case, I make the viewPager2 Gone by default until network requests succeed, I fix it by setting the CurrentItem after I make the viewPager2 visible.

My answer may not be helpful now but i see no harm to post my expreince, i just came to this problem using ViewPager and ViewPager2 and unexpectedly solved it by just changing some line codes order.
Here is (java) solution for ViewPager:
reviewWordViewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(changeListener);
reviewWordViewPager.setCurrentItem(viewPosition, true/false);
reviewWordTabIndicator.setupWithViewPager(reviewWordViewPager, true);
(Java) solution for ViewPager2:
wordViewPager.registerOnPageChangeCallback(viewPager2OnPageChangeCallback);
wordViewPager.setCurrentItem(vpPosition, true/false);
new TabLayoutMediator(tabIndicator, wordViewPager,
((tab, position) -> tab.setText(viewPagerTitle[position]))).attach();
I did not look up for ViewPager2 whether it needs the following old code used in ViewPager
#Override
public int getItemPosition(#NonNull Object object) {
// refresh all fragments when data set changed
return POSITION_NONE;
}
But surprisingly no need for it in ViewPager2 to solve the problem i've been having, hope it helps others
In case you use context.startActivity to start new activities no need to use wordViewPager.setCurrentItem(item, smoothScroll) in your onResume function to get back to the last selected tab before you started new activity you just save ViewPager/ViewPager2 position like vpPisition = wordViewPager.getCurrentItem(); in onStop function.
vpPisition is a global variable.

as #Daniel Kim but a java version
RecyclerView rvOfViewPager2 = (RecyclerView) viewPager2.getChildAt(0);
rvOfViewPager2.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener()
{
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout()
{
rvOfViewPager2.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
viewPager2.setCurrentItem(currentTabId, false);
}
});

First You need to Initilaze the Main activity under any listener or button You want then After that You need to put this Line..
here MainActvity is the Viewpager Main Class You are using and and 2 is the position where you want to move
MainActivity main = (MainActivity ) mContext;
main.selectTab(2, true);

Related

Setting RecyclerViews itemAnimator to null does not remove animations

My outer RecyclerView crashes either with
IllegalArgumentException: Scrapped or attached views may not be recycled. isScrap:false isAttached:true...
or
IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.
Like the title suggests I have an RecyclerView in the list item layout of the first RecyclerView. This layout is used to display messages and the
inner RecyclerView to display attachments that come with the message. The inner RecyclerViews visibility is set to either GONE or VISIBLE depending whether the message has any attachments or not. The simplified outer list item layout looks like this
ConstraintLayout
TextView
TextView
TextView
RecyclerView
And the part of the adapter that handles the inner RecyclerView looks like this
private fun bindFiles(message: Message?) = with(itemView) {
if (message != null && message.attachments.isNotEmpty())
{
sent_message_attachments.setAsVisible()
sent_message_attachments.layoutManager = GridLayoutManager(this.context,Math.min(message.attachments.size,3))
sent_message_attachments.adapter = AttachmentAdapter(message.attachments)
sent_message_attachments.itemAnimator = null
sent_message_attachments.setHasFixedSize(true)
}
else{
sent_message_attachments.setAsGone()
sent_message_attachments.adapter = null
sent_message_attachments.layoutManager = null
}
}
The bug has something to do with the way I fetch the attachments in the inner adapter since once I disable the part that start the download process, everything is fine. There's no problem when loading images from the device, but once I start the download process, everything goes to hell. This is the part that handles images and kicks off the download process in the inner adapter. I have functions for videos and for other file types that are pretty much the same exact thing but use slightly different layout.
private fun bindImage(item: HFile?) = with(itemView) {
if (item != null)
{
if (item.isOnDevice && !item.path.isNullOrEmpty())
{
if (item.isGif)
{
attachment_image.displayGif(File(item.path))
}
else
{
attachment_image.displayImage(File(item.path))
}
}
else
{
//TODO: Add option to load images manually
FileHandler(item.id).downloadFileAsObservable(false)
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(
{ progress ->
//TODO: Show download process
},
{ error ->
error.printStackTrace()
//TODO: Enable manual retry
},
{ notifyItemChanged(adapterPosition)} //onComplete
)
}
}
}
I use the same structure as above in my DiscussionListAdapter to load discussion portraits (profile pictures etc.) and it does not have the same issue.
These are the extensions functions used to inflate the viewHolders and to display the images
fun ViewGroup.inflate(layoutRes: Int): View
{
return LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(layoutRes, this, false)
}
fun ImageView.displayGif(file:File){
GlideApp.with(context).asGif().load(file).transforms(CenterCrop(), RoundedCorners(30)).into(this)
}
fun ImageView.displayImage(file:File){
GlideApp.with(context).load(file).transforms(CenterCrop(), RoundedCorners(30)).into(this)
}
I've been on this for the past couple of days and just can't get my head around it. Any help in any direction is greatly appreciated. I know my explanations can be a bit all over the place so just ask for clarification when needed :)
UPDATE
I have now been able to produce this with a GridLayout as well as with RecyclerView. It's safe to assume that the nested RecyclerViews were not the culprit here. I even tried to ditch the Rx-piece that handled loading the images and created an IntentService for the process, but the same crashes still occur.
With GridLayout I mean that instead of having another adapter to populate the nested RecyclerView I use only one adapter to populate the message and to inflate and populate views for the attachments as well and to attach those views to the nested GridLayout.
The crash happens when I start to download a file and then scroll the view, that is supposed to show the downloaded file, out of the screen. That view should get recycled but for some reason the download process (which in my test cases only takes around 100ms-400ms) causes the app to throw one of the two errors mentioned in the original question. It might be worth noting that I'm using Realm and the adapter takes in a RealmResults<Message> list as it's dataset. My presenter looks for changes in the list and then notifies the adapter when needed (changed due to the implementation of IntentService).
This is how I'm capable to reproduce this time and time again:
Open a discussion that has messages with attachments
Start to scroll upwards for more messages
Pass a message with an attachment and scroll it off screen while it's still loading
Crash
There is no crash if I stop and wait for the download to complete and everything works as intended. The image/video/file gets updated with a proper thumbnail and the app wont crash if I scroll that out of view.
UPDATE 2
I tried swapping the nested ViewGroup for a single ImageView just to see is the problem within the nestedness. Lo and behold! It still crashes. Now I'm really confused, since the DiscussionListAdapter I mentioned before has the same exact thing in it and that one works like a charm... My search continues. I hope someone, some day will benefit from my agony.
UPDATE 3
I started to log the parent of every ViewHolder in the onBindViewHolder() function. Like expected I got nulls after nulls after nulls, before the app crashed and spew this out.
04-26 21:54:50.718 27075-27075/com.hailer.hailer.dev D/MsgAdapter: Parent of ViewHolder: android.view.ViewOverlay$OverlayViewGroup{82a9fbc V.E...... .......D 0,0-1440,2168}
There's a method to my madness after all! But this just poses more questions. Why is ViewOverlay used here? As a part of RecyclerView or as a part of the dark magicians plans to deprive me of my sanity?
Sidenote
I went digging into RecyclerViews code to check if I could find a reason for the ViewOverlaymystery. I found out that RecyclerView calls the adapters onCreateViewHolder() function only twice. Both times providing itself as the parent argument for the function. So no luck there... What the hell can cause the item view to have the ViewOverlay as it's parent? The parent is an immutable value, so the only way for the ViewOverlay to be set as the parent, is for something to construct a new ViewHolder and supply the ViewOverlay as the parent object.
UPDATE 4
Sometimes I amaze myself with my own stupidity. The ViewOverlay is used because the items are being animated. I didn't even consider this to be an option since I've set the itemAnimator for the RecyclerView as null, but for some odd reason that does not work. The items are still being animated and that is causing this whole charade. So what could be the cause of this? (How I chose to ignore the moving items, I do not know, but the animations became very clear when I forced the app to download same picture over and over again and the whole list went haywire.)
My DiscussionInstanceFragment contains the RecyclerView in question and a nested ConstraintLayout that in turn contains an EditText for user input and a send button.
val v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_discussion_instance, container, false)
val lm = LinearLayoutManager(context)
lm.reverseLayout = true
v.disc_instance_messages_list.layoutManager = lm
v.disc_instance_messages_list.itemAnimator = null
v.disc_instance_messages_list.adapter = mPresenter.messageAdapter
This is the piece that handles the initialization of the RecyclerView. I'm most definitely setting the itemAnimator as null, but the animations just wont stop! I've tried setting the animateLayoutChanges xml attribute on the root ConstraintLayout and on the RecyclerView but neither of them worked. It's worth mentioning that I also checked whether the RecyclerView had an itemAnimator in different states of the program, and every time I check the animator, it is null. So what is animating my RecyclerView?!
I have faced the same issue
Try this in your child RecyclerView it works for me
RecyclerView childRC = itemView.findViewById(R.id.cmol_childRC);
layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(context);
childRC.setItemAnimator(null);
childRC.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
childRC.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);
childRC.setHasFixedSize(true);
now set your Adapter like this
ArrayList<Model> childArryList = new ArrayList<>();
childArryList.addAll(arrayList.get(position).getArrayList());
ChildOrderAdapter adapter = new ChildOrderAdapter(context, childArryList);
holder.childRC.swapAdapter(adapter, true);
hope this helps
I finally figured out what was causing this. In my DiscussionInstanceView I have a small view that is animated into and out of view with ConstraintLayout keyframe animations. This view only shows the download progress of the chat history and is used only once, when the discussion is first opened. BUT since I had a call to hiding that view every time my dataset got updated, I was forcing the ConstraintLayout to fire of an animation sequence thus making everything animate during the dataset update. I just added a simple check whether I was downloading the history or not and this problem got fixed.

How to save the state of views held in dynamic viewpager

I have an enhanced loop, which will dynamically inflate however many layouts relevant to the number of values held in my array.
This works perfectly however, there is a method being called on each iteration, which also works but there is a big bug that I need help resolving.
Imagine there are 5 items in my array, therefore 5 layouts are inflated, in these layouts there is a little scratchcard type section on the layout.
Now if the user is on page 1, uses the scratchcard, then moves on to page 2, uses the scratchcard etc etc, it works fine.
But if the user is on page 1 and then goes to say, page 5 and then back to page 1 (basically in a random order), the scratchcard doesn't work.
From my understanding, the reason for this is that the method is being called an implemented on each iteration and the view is losing its state if the user scrolls back or scrolls in random orders.
Therefore I need a way to save the created view state in my viewpager.
Is this possible for my scenario? I have tried my best to find a solution, but cannot find something that feels relevant to my question.
Here is a snippet of the code in question. Thanks for any guidance or suggestions!
for (String x : array1) {
//loop out the number of layouts relative to the number of questions held in x
View current_layout = LayoutInflater.from(getActivity()).inflate(R.layout.question_fragment, null);
//use the pageAdapter to add the layout to the users view
pagerAdapter.addView(current_layout);
//call method to add functionality to the scratchcard
isCorrect(current_layout);
}
public void isCorrect(View current_layout) {
ScratchoffController controller1 = new ScratchoffController(getActivity())
.setThresholdPercent(0.40d)
.setTouchRadiusDip(getActivity(), 30)
.setFadeOnClear(true)
.setClearOnThresholdReached(true)
.setCompletionCallback(() -> {
})
.attach(current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view1), current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view_behind1));
ScratchoffController controller2 = new ScratchoffController(getActivity())
.setThresholdPercent(0.40d)
.setTouchRadiusDip(getActivity(), 30)
.setFadeOnClear(true)
.setClearOnThresholdReached(true)
.setCompletionCallback(() -> {
})
.attach(current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view2), current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view_behind2));
ScratchoffController controller3 = new ScratchoffController(getActivity())
.setThresholdPercent(0.40d)
.setTouchRadiusDip(getActivity(), 30)
.setFadeOnClear(true)
.setClearOnThresholdReached(true)
.setCompletionCallback(() -> {
})
.attach(current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view3), current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view_behind3));
ScratchoffController controller4 = new ScratchoffController(getActivity())
.setThresholdPercent(0.40d)
.setTouchRadiusDip(getActivity(), 30)
.setFadeOnClear(true)
.setClearOnThresholdReached(true)
.setCompletionCallback(() -> {
})
.attach(current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view4), current_layout.findViewById(R.id.scratch_view_behind4));
}
I ussually use ViewPager with Fragments and what you mention has happend to me when I try to keep references to the Fragment instances (in my case) outside of the viewpager.
This happens because the viewpager may create new instances of the Fragment it contains when you re-vist the tab in the way you mention. When this happens, the instance reference you hold outside of the viewpager is not anymore what the viewpager is showing.
In your case , according to this question, you have to oveeride instatiateItem and destroyItem. I think you can use these methods to save state restore state, and also you could update any external reference when instantiateItem is called.

Android Robolectric Click RecyclerView Item

Is there any way to simulate a click on a RecyclerView item with Robolectric?
So far, I have tried getting the View at the first visible position of the RecyclerView, but that is always null. It's getChildCount() keeps returning 0, and findViewHolderForPosition is always null. The adapter returns a non-0 number from getItemCount() (there are definitely items in the adapter).
I'm using Robolectric 2.4 SNAPSHOT.
Seems like the issue was that RecyclerView needs to be measured and layed out manually in Robolectric. Calling this solves the problem:
recyclerView.measure(0, 0);
recyclerView.layout(0, 0, 100, 10000);
With Robolectric 3 you can use visible():
ActivityController<MyActivity> activityController = Robolectric.buildActivity(MyActivityclass);
activityController.create().start().visible();
ShadowActivity myActivityShadow = shadowOf(activityController.get());
RecyclerView currentRecyclerView = ((RecyclerView) myActivityShadow.findViewById(R.id.myrecyclerid));
currentRecyclerView.getChildAt(0).performClick();
This eliminates the need to trigger the measurement of the view by hand.
Expanding on Marco Hertwig's answer:
You need to add the recyclerView to an activity so that its layout methods are called as expected. You could call them manually, (like in Elizer's answer) but you would have to manage the state yourself. Also, this would not be simulating an actual use-case.
Code:
#Before
public void setup() {
ActivityController<Activity> activityController =
Robolectric.buildActivity(Activity.class); // setup a default Activity
Activity activity = activityController.get();
/*
Setup the recyclerView (create it, add the adapter, add a LayoutManager, etc.)
...
*/
// set the recyclerView object as the only view in the activity
activity.setContentView(recyclerView);
// start the activity
activityController.create().start().visible();
}
Now you don't need to worry about calling layout and measure everytime your recyclerView is updated (by adding/removing items from the adapter, for example).
Just invoke
Robolectric.flushForegroundThreadScheduler()
before performClick() to ensure that all ui operations (including measure and layout phases of recycler view after populating with the dataset) are finished

ViewPager: recovering from configuration change

I'm having a really hard time to recover from configuration changes with ViewPager.
What I want is save the current pager position so that after a config change the same page will be visible. To do that, I save pager.getCurrentItem() and restore it using pager.setCurrentItem. Just that this doesn't work: setCurrentItem actually attempts to recreate that page instead of selecting it! And that's even though the page has already been created.
Now I'm not sure if I missed something when implementing the adapter that's backing it, but is there a pitfall to setCurrentItem and when ViewPager thinks that it's fully constructed? Looking at the code of that function though, it makes no sense to me; it seems to always try to recreate a page, except when there are no items at all:
void setCurrentItemInternal(int item, boolean smoothScroll, boolean always, int velocity) {
// these are the only checked that make this method return
if (mAdapter == null || mAdapter.getCount() <= 0) {
setScrollingCacheEnabled(false);
return;
}
if (!always && mCurItem == item && mItems.size() != 0) {
setScrollingCacheEnabled(false);
return;
}
// ... removed some init code
mCurItem = item;
populate();
// ...
}
As you can see, populate() is always called, except when there are either no items at all, or the item you're trying to select was already selected. What gives? That doesn't make sense to me.
setCurrentItem actually attempts to recreate that page instead of selecting it! And that's even though the page has already been created.
Not exactly, at least in terms of how I read the code.
As you can see, populate() is always called, except when there are either no items at all, or the item you're trying to select was already selected.
populate() will call addNewItem(), which calls instantiateItem() on the PagerAdapter. The FragmentPagerAdapter implementation of PagerAdapter will use an existing fragment if available, otherwise it calls out to getItem() so you create the page yourself. So, if you use setRetainInstance(true) with your page fragments, and you are using FragmentPagerAdapter, they should be reused.
FragmentStatePagerAdapter seems more complicated, and if you are rolling your own PagerAdapter sans fragments, it is up to you to implement a caching mechanism.

visual indication of over scroll in android

I am trying to add some visual indication, that there are no more pages in the desired fling direction in the ViewPager. However I am struggling to find a place, where to put relevant code.
I have tried extending ViewPager class with following code, but the Toast is not displaying (ev.getOrientation() returns always 0). I have also tried the same with history points, but ev.getHistorySize() returns also 0.
What am I missing?
Class example:
public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager {
public CustomViewPager(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public CustomViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
/**
* #see android.support.v4.view.ViewPager#onTouchEvent(android.view.MotionEvent)
*/
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
boolean result = super.onTouchEvent(ev);
switch (ev.getAction() & MotionEventCompat.ACTION_MASK) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
if (ev.getOrientation() > 0) {
Toast.makeText(getContext(), "left", 0).show();
}
}
return result;
}
}
If you look at the v4 support library you will see there's a class used by ViewPager called EdgeEffectCompat (this provides the glow effect when you reach the beginning or end of a view pager in ICS+) If you look at the implementation in the compat library you will see that it has an if-statement to see if the build version is 14+ (ICS) or not. If it is, then it ends up eventually (if you trace long enough) using the normal EdgeEffect class that was inroduced in ICS. Otherwise it uses BaseEdgeEffectImpl which basically has nothing in it.
If you want, you can make your own custom ViewPager that uses EdgeEffect of your own. You can look at the android source code to see how they implemented EdgeEffect here which you can pretty much copy (just make sure to copy the overscroll_edge and overscroll_glow drawables in the AOSP /res/drawable directories to your own project since they are internal to android) or go ahead and create your own version.
Good luck.
(By the way, that's how they create the cool looking edge tilt effect in the launcher menu on ICS... so you can pretty much be as creative as you want with this ;)
I was trying to get the exact same effect that was asked in this question. I struggle with it and then I read #wnafee answer (I couldn't do it with out it).
But then I struggle to implement what was sound pretty simple from the answer.
I had so much trouble with implementing it, that I might didn't understand the answer correctly, but there were too many issues of inaccessible APIs since I wasn't working in the same package of the Compatibility library.
After I tried some approaches (none of them succeeded, and they were pretty complicated) I went to a slightly different direction, and now it works like a charm. I used some reflection, for the ones who never used it, don't worry it is really the basic of reflection.
I'm not sure if it's the best solution out there, but it worked for me, so if you would like to use it you are welcome. Please read Wnafee example since it explains some of the stuff that I did.
In order to accomplish this task you should just follow my three parts solution. (Will take you between 3-10 minutes)
Part I:
As Wnafee said I just made my own EdgeEffect class by copy paste the source code from here,
(just make sure to copy the overscroll_edge and overscroll_glow
drawables in the AOSP /res/drawable directories to your own project
since they are internal to android)
I only did 2 really small changes:
I declare that the class extends EdgeEffectCompat (I called my class EdgeEffectForEarlyVersions). public class EdgeEffectForEarlyVersions extends EdgeEffectCompat. The reason for doing this change is that the mLeftEdge and mRightEdge are of the type EdgeEffectCompat.
At the first line of the constructor of "my" new class I added a call to the parent constructor super(context);. Since there is no default constructor to EdgeEffectCompat you have to Explicitly call the constructor.
Part II
Besides that I wrote the another function. The purpose of the function is that in case of an early version (before ICS) we would like to use the EdgeEffectForEarlyVersions that we just copied. In order to get that purpose I used reflection.
This is the function:
private static void changeEdgeEffectCompactOnEarlyVersions(ViewPager viewPager, Context context)
{
/* In case that the version is earlier than 14 there is only empty implementation for the edge effect, therefore we change it.
* for more information look on the following links:
* 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10773565/visual-indication-of-over-scroll-in-android
* 2. http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.google.android/support-v4/r7/android/support/v4/view/ViewPager.java#ViewPager.0mLeftEdge
* 3. http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.google.android/support-v4/r7/android/support/v4/widget/EdgeEffectCompat.java#EdgeEffectCompat
*/
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 14)
{
try
{
Class<ViewPager> viewPagerClass = ViewPager.class;
//Get the left edge field, since it is private we used getDeclaredField and not getDeclared
Field leftEdge = viewPagerClass.getDeclaredField("mLeftEdge");
leftEdge.setAccessible(true);
//Get the right edge field, since it is private we used getDeclaredField and not getDeclared
Field rightEdge = viewPagerClass.getDeclaredField("mRightEdge");
rightEdge.setAccessible(true);
EdgeEffectForEarlyVersions leftEdgeEffect = new EdgeEffectForEarlyVersions(context);
EdgeEffectForEarlyVersions rightEdgeEffect = new EdgeEffectForEarlyVersions(context);
//Set the mLeftEdge memeber of viewPager not to be the default one, but to be "our" edgeEffect
leftEdge.set(viewPager, leftEdgeEffect);
//Set the mRightEdge memeber of viewPager not to be the default one, but to be "our" edgeEffect
rightEdge.set(viewPager, rightEdgeEffect);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Log.e("refelection", ex.getMessage());
}
}
}
Part III
Now all there is left to do, is to call that function after you have the ViewPager Instance and nothing more.
I Hope it will help someone.
wnafee explained the solution well but for the lazy among us, i made an actual working implementation quite some time ago.
https://github.com/inovex/ViewPager3D
And if you just want overscroll take a look here:
https://github.com/inovex/ViewPager3D/issues/1
You have a lot of options, you can show a Toast, display a Dialog, make a TextView or image to appear over your UI, etc. Or because you know the amount of View items in the ViewPager, you could add different View at positions 0 and/or n + 1 with the message and make it bounce to the last View that actually contains your data.
You could implement:
viewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(new OnPageChangeListener() {
public void onPageSelected(int position) {
//TODO If position is the 0 or n item, add a view at 0 or at n+1 to indicate there is no more pages with data.
}
public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
// TODO Show a Toast, View or do anything you want when position = your first/last item;
}
public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
}
});
just to complement #goBeepit dev answer when you create your own edgeffect class and you extend from EdgeEffectCompat some methods requires to be boolean. you can change those methods to boolean type and make then return true in any case, this way everything works fine
You can overload the setUserVisibleHint(boolean) function in your fragments. Pseudo code:
void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) {
// If this fragment is becoming visible
if (isVisibleToUser == true) {
// Check if it is the last fragment in the viewpager
if (indexOfThis == getActivity().indexOfLast) {
// Display right limit reached
Toast(..., "No more Frags to right",...)
}
// Check if it is the first fragment in the viewpager
else if (indexOfThis == getActivity().indexOfFirst) {
// Display Left Limit reached
Toast(..., "No more Frags to left",...)
}
}
}
I have not used this function for this purpose, but have used it for other reasons and it does fire appropriately. Hope this helps...
I've implemented a bounce back effect based on Renard's ViewPager3D: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17425468/973379
Usually with ViewPager, one uses a PagerAdapter such as FragmentPagerAdapter or FragmentStatePagerAdapter to flood the ViewPager with contents(your content are going to be views).
Now, when you use a PagerAdapter, you have one method called getCount(), http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/PagerAdapter.html#getCount%28%29 ,which will give you the size of the content.
Since you now, know the size you can easily display a message with an if control statement.
Try this code : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/ViewPager.html
Note: I dont think you need a custom ViewPager. You will also need to understand Fragments for ViewPager. Look at samples in ApiDemos. Its a great source.

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