Showing text gallery on application first time start up in Android - android

I am posting this question because I never worked on this and I am not aware which component is used to implement such functionality.
See this screen-shot. This is an sample image. It is not my work, this is taken from Google Images:
Now on application startup I am reading Android sd card and updating my database. In the meantime, I am using ProgressDialog like this
Now what I want is to show 5 image slides. Not Image slide I want a single colour backgroung and the text should have to be change every two seconds on the same backgroung with five small circles I downside.
Now I am not able to get what is it. A image slide show or other native component. I asked in chat rooms they asked me to post here.
If it can happen without image it will be better because there is a lot of complexities with different device sizes.
How can I implement this?

Try with android smartimageview or with Viewflow

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