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.
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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!
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.
I'm trying to find out what technique I have to use with my intended approach.
I have a layout that should consist of 3 parts: a top and right part that stay the same and a left part that can change in runtime. When the user decides to change this left part, it should display another layout at that location.
So far I've found these approaches:
ViewFlipper
Not really what I'm looking for since it's used by sliding your finger to the side instead of pressing a button
ViewPager
Seems to be pretty much the same as the ViewFlipper.
ViewStub
Can only be used once so not a viable option (I want the user to be able to change back and forth).
Sadly, none of them do the job (unless I have misinterpreted something). Is it even possible to do what I want?
If it's something not too complex, you could go with ViewAnimator.
For something more advanced Fragments are the solution.
Note: You could call setDisplayedChild() on a ViewFlipper to programmatically switch between views.
You could also call setCurrentItem() on a ViewPager (which by the way can use Fragments).
I'm working on an app in which I would like to implement swipe-to-dismiss functionality in the ListView - similar to what we see in Android 4.0's notification bar, recent apps list or browser tabs. I want to run the app on the devices running Android 2.2+. See the following image. I also want to change the transparency of the item being swiped-away - just like in ICS.
I checked the source of the ICS web browser on http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android-apps/4.0.1_r1/com/android/browser/TabScrollView.java?av=f but couldn't figure out which class is particularly responsible for implementing this functionality.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Can we do this using Android Compatibility Library? Please let me know. Many thanks.
I've thought about implementing such a feature as well, but I haven't done it yet. So the only thing I can provide are some ideas on how I would approach that problem. If I've eventually written some code I will post it here.
The main class needed is a custom Adapter which extends a ListAdapter (ArrayAdapter, SimpleCursorAdapter etc.).
The adapter applies a View.OnTouchListener to all of its Views.
Whenever that listener detects a horizontal scroll dx, it calls concernedView.offsetLeftAndRight(dx) (which will make the view draggable). Of course the adapter has to save the current horizontal offset for the view. If the user was dragging a view and removes his/her finger from the screen, the touchListener will detect this as well and start a slide back animation. Using the current offset we can also calculate an alpha value, so the view will fade out when it approaches the screen borders.
If one list entry is eventually dismissed by the user, it becomes a bit tricky, and I'm still not sure how I would implement the following action: The list content has to be updated (or the adapter has to ignore the dismissed entries) and the views that were below the one that was dismissed must hover upwards in order to fill the gap. I think it might work to let the ListView load the new content, but that would fill the gap instantly. In order to avoid that, I would then start an animation that lets all the concerned views hover from their old position (where we still had the gap) back to their current position (where the gap is filled).
These are just some of my thoughts on the issue that might help some people getting started on working on the problem. Like I said, I'm probably going to implement that sometime in the future and of course I will post the code here.
I would appreciate any feedback in the comments, but I don't want to thorougly explain every single aspect of my idea, that would take me too much time ;)
I know this is quite an old question, but for anyone still searching for this, you can have a look at Roman Nurik's library here: https://github.com/romannurik/Android-SwipeToDismiss
This shows how to create the required behavior for list-view as well as for normal views.
I have an app on iPhone with cascading design like on the picture, and I'd like to port it to Android. Is there a simple and recommended way to do this?
The section menu on the left (Section A, B,C,D) is the first that the user needs to select, then the user needs to pick a category in the middle (all, popular, pc, xbox,...), then he is presented with a list of articles for chosen category.
I could imagine doing it with three ListViews, but then the app could also listen to a swipe gesture to make the rightmost ListView "full screen", and hide the first two listviews. I could implement a swipe listener for the whole activity and set first two listviews' visibility to hidden, right?
Are my assumptions correct and would this be the right way to do this?
It could definetly work the way you explain it - if the design is good is another discussion. Personally I'm not a fan of throwing in endless amounts of data in one screen, when the space is as limited as it is on most mobile phones (I would probably do it with 3 different screens with a ListView on each)
Implementing the mentioned swipe gesture is doable and you could certainly just hide the two other ListViews with the function setVisibility( View.GONE ).
Hope it helps.
You might want to use the new fragments API, it's specifically built for this kind of thing (and it's compatible all the way down to Android 1.6). Also, as KasperMoerch says, putting all that info on a small screen can get ugly. Using fragments will make it easier for you to gradually increase the amount of information displayed as the screen size increases.
I'm not sure you can just listen for a swipe gesture over an entire activity like that. I think you have to wrap the fragments in a custom view (for example an extended LinearLayout) and do the swipe listening there. However, achieving a finger-tracking animation (i.e. where the rightmost pane follows the finger precisely as it swipes across) is a pretty daunting task (I wouldn't really know where to begin, probably in the custom view though). The best way (I think) to do it is to make a compromise and just start an animation (right-to-left slide) when you detect a swipe. However, the simplest solution is to not animate at all.
You can also take into consideration dropping the swipe gesture altogether and just providing an "expand" button.