How to make a ViewPager cycle between views? - android

I want my ViewPager implementation to cycle between views instead of stopping at the last view. For example, if I have 3 views to display via a ViewPager, it should return back to the first View after the third View on fling instead of stopping at that third view. Any ideas on how to achieve this?
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ViewPager or RecyclerView with fragments?

I am a little bit confused on how should I approach this particular case of doing some swipes between fragments.
So yea, I asked ViewPager or RecyclerView, because these 2 are my only options, if anyone can come up with a better idea, it is really welcome.
The flow is the following, I have a Main Timeline(ListView), each item of it opens a fragment with details about it. What I would actually want to do is to swipe between these full screen fragments without going back to MTL and open another item of the list.
You would ask me what I tried, well:
RecyclerView - HORIZONTALLY oriented as a root of the fragment, and each item of this RV had the details of each event. The problem with this is that it gets really buggy because I have a huge logic inside each item(like, another RV - horizontally , a PagerView also horizontally to swipe between images (or a youtube frame that is being played if is the case. Plus a lot of other stuff in this, so the logic of parent RV inside the onBindViewHolder() is really tricky.
Would be better to use a PagerView with fragments(since I have the DetailsFragment kind of ready) ? The problem here is that I need a certain number of swipes, right ?
Go with viewpager.
Because creating fragments inside recyclerview causes recyclerview performs to slow down.Also to create fragments in onBindViewHolder() dynamically every time you need different unique id of frame layout to load which will be tough to generate.
For more information on why recycler view is bad idea to load fragments check this.
Fragment replacing in RecyclerView item
Also try to use the ViewPager with an implementation of FragmentStatePagerAdapter. The adapter will optimize the memory usage by destroying fragments that are not visible at a given moment.
Check the documentation for details and code sample.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/FragmentStatePagerAdapter.html

ViewPager with no snapping

What I would like to achieve: Have a ViewPager with TabLayout where each Tab contains a new Fragment that has a RecyclerView layout out horizontally and managed by a FragmentPagerAdapter.
What I am struggling with: The default behaviour is that when you get end of the list on one of the tabs, it switches Tabs and snaps (snapping means if you pull over 50% of the viewport, it jumps to either direction). I want it to free-flow and not to snap. Sort of like how it happens in iOS by default.
I got inspired for this setup by the following two CodePath guide:
https://guides.codepath.com/android/google-play-style-tabs-using-tablayout
https://guides.codepath.com/android/ViewPager-with-FragmentPagerAdapter
How should I approach this problem (preferably without any other libraries)?
What I would do is use HorizontalScrollView instead of a ViewPager. The only caveat is that the view pager sends the lifecycle events to fragments as you scroll between them, whereas for HorizontalScrollView you will have to add them initially, and then they will be continuously active unless you manually change that. Also you may have an option to not use the fragments and use simple views depending on what you use the fragments for.
I would definitely not override the touch events for the ViewPager because it does some cleanup when it detects the UP motion, so just swallowing it is not a correct thing to do.

In Android, how to make views transit between screens under viewPager?

So I have a single activity that controls a viewPager and this viewPager controls five fragments. In one of the fragments, there is an ImageView.
I want this imageView transit to the next page when I do a swipe left. More specifically, the position of this imageView will transit as I am swiping and once the swiping is done and the next fragment layout is completely shown on the screen, this ImageView should be a fixed location in this layout.
Does anybody know how I can make this work?
Thanks!
I think I know what you mean. It might be easier to make it a separate View on top of the pager, perhaps disabled so drags will go through it. and then you need to get a live reading of the position of the page. onPageScrolled on ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener is pretty cool and gives you what you need to place elements or do other transitionary effects based on the actual position of the Views in your ViewPager.

Android View Pager: onCreateView getting called for both fragments

I am trying to implement swipe views with 2 tabs. For that, I am using view pager with 2 fragments. Now, the problem is that as soon as the main activity is opened (that contains those two tabs), onCreateView function is called for both the fragments. Please help me as how can I avoid calling of onCreateView of second fragment when one is in use.
Thanks,
Arpit
ViewPager retains the fragment to the left and to the right of the current view by default. This is to reduce a choppy user experience - that way you can begin swiping left or right and immediately see what is there without delay.
It is possible to disable (or increase the number of fragments to be retained) with setOffscreenPageLimit(0), but seriously consider if this is the right approach.

Footer disappears from listview after returning to its tab

I am using ViewPager with 3 pages , each holding a listfragment. I place a footer for each listfragment's listview. Now, when I go to 3rd tab and then return to first, the footer is missing and the scroll listener also stops firing. I can get the scroll listener started again by binding the listener in onActivityCreated, but since list.addFooterView doesn't work after setListAdapter, I am not able to put in the footer view again into the listview.
Any help is much appreciated.
If you will only ever have 3 pages in your ViewPager, the easiest solution I can think of is to call viewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(2). The first fragment will no longer move beyond the offscreen page limit when you visit the third fragment, so it will never be removed from the ViewPager.

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