Android Tinder-like swipeable card stack with ViewPager - android

I'm working on a project which has a Carousel styled fragment implemented on it (using a ViewPager implementation of sorts). You can swipe left or right, and while the main "card" is displayed, you can see the next and previous one behind it. Then you can use the buttons below for "yes" or "no". It looks something like this:
Is there some way I can change this in order to make it work like a Tinder style card swipe system where I can instantly discard or accept cards through swiping?
I've looked into some projects in github that do this using CardView. However, when my application was originally designed, it started with the Carousel and then everything else was pretty much built around it, so this implementation isn't modular. To implement a card stack system with CardView I'd basically have to deconstruct and reconstruct the entire thing or just start the project from scratch again.
However, if I could use the carousel's current ViewPager implementation by changing the animation and doing whatever little else should be required, it would save me an enormous amount of time and effort. How should I proceed in order to achieve this? (Bonus points if elevation, shadows and card angle rotation can be done too with ViewPager!)
I'm fairly new to Android, I've been working on this for less than a month, so any help would be extremely appreciated, thanks!

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Nativescript Vertical Screen Slide / ViewPager

What is the easiest way to implement a screen slide in Nativescript like shown in Android Viewpager , but in a vertical direction ? Another example of this functionality would be the rss reader feedly where you can change rss feeds by swiping up/down.
The page should allow vertical scrolling to the top/bottom and then transition after a certain treshold.
I already encountered nativescript-slides, which can only do horizontally sliding.
So is there a "nativescript" way or do i have to implement it as native android/ios feature (for example by this) ? In either case a sample on how to integrate it in nativescript would be great.
Update
Recorded an example:
taken from this Repo with Android native code. The outstanding PR made changes to offer vertical scrolling in the list. But the repo seems to be outdated and a bit buggy.
I can provide more info later but there's a new plugin implementing the native controls for android and iOS for slides/carousel her https://github.com/alexrainman/nativescript-carousel-view and vertical swiping is on his radar, I think he might even be close to completing that.
To give an answer for anybody interested in above nested scrolling animation:
For Android I had to implement the native ReyclerView in Nativescript in favor of the NS buildin ListView. It is an optimized view structure which among other things allows nested (vertical) scrolling and can be used as replacement for an ordinary list.
Together with https://github.com/alexrainman/nativescript-carousel-view works like a charm!
Anyone that ends up here still looking for ways to achieve this.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a way to achieve this and tried to find ready plugins for this. Also tried to use the plugin from Alexrainman but eventually gave up since the plugin was not up to date with the current nativescript-version.
My solution:
I used radListView as a basis for this implementation and leveraged the methods and events on the radListView.
By using scrolled-event I gathered data for the use of the scrolling feature: scroll Speed and scroll direction. (These might be also taken from the event data, but since I did not find the event details from the Nativescript-documentation I gave up trying to guess where to find this data on the event-model).
Then I also saved the fixed height of one item on my list (The height I fixed to screenHeight-200).
With all this info, I managed to hook the event "ScrollDragEnded" and add logic that makes my list behave like a vertical slider. Moving on the list by method "scrollToIndex" and figuring out which index to scroll and when by leveraging all the data mentioned above.
This is the way I managed to make a pretty good vertical slide.
Good luck!

Bottom Panel in Android

I'm trying to design an app with a layout that will roughly look like this (don't mind the color):
How can I achieve something like that? I'm thinking of using a CardView for that bottom panel (I don't know what it's really called).
Furthermore, I want to hide it (animating it) when the use scrolls on the content. I have tried many codes but they won't work so I won't put them here anyway (like what's suggested here). Thanks for the help.
Whenever I have a question along the lines of "How do I do this neat UI thing I saw once?", I always start by checking out wasabeef's amazing UI library collection. In your case I might start by looking at bottomsheet or AndroidSweetSheet.

What is the best approach to design a set of "guiding screens" for an android app?

I need to design introduction walk-through screens when my app launches. It can be done by simple ViewPager or horizontal scroll view (?) but the additional requirements which are hindering me from using these are
A lot of animations on each screen
Animations will be bound to scroll position (i.e., current stage on an animation will be determined by how much user has scrolled, and it should roll back animation if user scrolls back without finish gesture)
Some items need to animate across different screens (e.g., There is a box on first screen, when user scrolls to the next screen, the box becomes larger without moving and a graph (a part of second screen) also comes into display under it)
I dont know if I explained the scenario well enough so please ask for clarification in comments. I need just a direction to control/approach/library.
Thanks
I'd recommend this library : ShowCase
In this way, you can make interactive tutorial and walkthrough your app.
You can also take this library and add some functionality.
Use viewpager, for each fragment you can use different animation inside that fragment, each fragment is independent from other views/fragments
You can use horizontal scroll view but it will take extra time and difficult to code
Seems like a ViewPager has everything you need.

How to implement swipe pages [duplicate]

I'd like to make a view in my Android app that flips between multiple views on a swipe/fling. I'd like it to behave more or less like the Android Launcher behaves when flipping between views. In particular,
It should flip views on swipe.
Generally a swipe will flip between one view and the next. It should not fling across all of the views.
If you swipe slowly, you should see the views dragging as you're swiping, eg. the way the Launcher does it.
I tried using a ViewFlipper with a GestureOverlayView as per Romain Guy's blog post here, but there's no indicator to the user as they're swiping. This makes discoverability difficult, which is presumably why Launcher does it the way they do.
I tried using a Gallery object, but when I swipe from left to right, there's a certain amount of momentum that flings the users through all the views rather than just taking them to the next view.
Is there a good way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
I know this is an old question but ViewPager is created for this exact same purpose. ViewPager is part of android compatibility package and more can be found at http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/08/horizontal-view-swiping-with-viewpager.html
Take a look at HorizontalPager. It's actually based on RealViewSwitcher, which in turn is based on the Android homescreen's code, and supports snap-to paging with drag feedback, as well as nested vertically-scrolling subviews. Gesture support for fast swipes isn't all it should be, but this may get you part of the way there (and I'd welcome contributions back).
EDIT: As of 2012 you're much better off using Google's ViewPager - it's in the compat library.
Check out SwipeView within this project https://github.com/fry15/uk.co.jasonfry.android.tools It does exactly what you want it to do and is super simple to implement.
#CommonsGuy extended ViewFlipper to do it.
https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-viewswiper
Ihaven't used this one yet so im not sure if it moves with your finger like the launcher if not your going to have to make an OnTochListener to do it for you in me.ACTION_MOVE you will update the view to change its position. I'll post some sample code when I get home if you don't get another answer.

Fragment animation question

In the Honeycomb sample gallery app, there's a layout that uses a two-fragment setup: one on the left of the screen showing titles, and one on the right showing the selected content. The titles fragment can be hidden with an animation.
During the hiding animation, the app asks the framework to recalculate the layout on every single frame. This way the content-fragment can take up the empty space that the titles-fragment leaves behind while it moves off-screen. This produces a great, dynamic effect, but is terribly inefficient I think.
I have fairly complex layouts, and I'd rather not ask the system to re-layout on every single frame. But I'd like a smooth transition animation like in the sample. Are there any alternative solutions to this problem?
P.s.: Just to be clear, I'm not asking how to do basic fragment-transaction animations. I know those, and AFAIK, those animations can't produce the behaviour found in that sample gallery app (another example would be the Honeycomb Gmail app, it has similar transitions that I'd like to achieve).
You can provide custom animations to the fragment system that do whatever you want. You can move the fragments around, fade them, etc. If these animations do not explicitly or implicitly cause layout (by changing properties that trigger a layout), then you should not get a layout on each animation frame. There maybe still be a layout call at the beginning/end as the fragments are added/removed, but the layout/invalidation process during the animation is up to your animations and what they do.

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