java - Infinite Scrolling Image ViewPager

Question

As documented by Google, the Gallery class was deprecated in API level 16. This widget is no longer supported. Other horizontally scrolling widgets include HorizontalScrollView and ViewPager from the support library. So I used ViewPager as an alternative to the Gallery class.

My goal to finally achieve an infinite scrolling image ViewPager with text descriptions. I used the below code to achieve the image ViewPager with text describing each image but how do I apply Infinite Scrolling to a ViewPager?

I have not worked with ViewPager before so please try to provide detailed code if possible.

activity_main.xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
       android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
       android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
       android:orientation="vertical">
  <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager 
       android:id="@+id/myimagepager" 
       android:layout_width="match_parent" 
       android:layout_height="match_parent" /> 
</LinearLayout>

custom_pager.xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
   android:layout_width="match_parent" 
   android:layout_height="match_parent" 
   android:orientation="vertical"  
   android:gravity="center_horizontal">
   <ImageView 
       android:id="@+id/myimage" 
       android:layout_width="match_parent" 
       android:layout_height="0dp" 
       android:layout_margin="5dp" 
       android:layout_weight="2" /> 
    <TextView 
       android:id="@+id/image_text" 
       android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
       android:layout_height="0dp"   
       android:layout_weight="1"/>

</LinearLayout>

ImagePager:

public class ImagePager extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        ImagePagerAdapter adapter = new ImagePagerAdapter(this, imageArra, stringArray );
        ViewPager myPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.myimagepager);
        myPager.setAdapter(adapter);
        myPager.setCurrentItem(0);
    }

    private int imageArra[] = { R.drawable.a, R.drawable.b,R.drawable.c, 
                                 R.drawable.d,R.drawable.e,R.drawable.f,
                                 R.drawable.g, R.drawable.h, R.drawable.i};

    private String[] stringArray = new String[] { "Image a", "Image b","Image c"
                                                   "Image d","Image e","Image f", 
                                                   "Image g","Image h","Image i"};


}

ImagePagerAdapter:

public class ImagePagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    Activity activity;
    int imageArray[];
    String[] stringArray;

    public ImagePagerAdapter(Activity act, int[] imgArra, String[] stringArra) {
        imageArray = imgArra;
        activity = act;
        stringArray = stringArra;
    }

    public int getCount() {
        return imageArray.length;
    }

    public Object instantiateItem(View collection, int position) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)collection.getContext
                          ().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_pager, null);   

        ImageView im=(ImageView) layout.findViewById(R.id.myimage);             
        im.setImageResource(imageArray[position]);

        TextView txt=(TextView) layout.findViewById(R.id.image_text);
        txt.setText(stringArray[position]);

        ((ViewPager) collection).addView(layout, 0);
          return layout;   
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(View arg0, int arg1, Object arg2) {
        ((ViewPager) arg0).removeView((View) arg2);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isViewFromObject(View arg0, Object arg1) {
        return arg0 == ((View) arg1);
    }

    @Override
    public Parcelable saveState() {
        return null; 
    }


}

Answer 1

I had the same problem, but I was able to find a way to solve it - the code can be found on github.

If you copy the classes InfiniteViewPager and InfinitePagerAdapter into your project, you can achieve infinite (wrapped) scrolling with some small changes.

In your Activity, wrap your PagerAdapter with an InfinitePagerAdapter:

PagerAdapter adapter = new InfinitePagerAdapter(new ImagePagerAdapter(this, imageArra, stringArray));

Change the ViewPager in the activity XML to be an InfiniteViewPager:

<com.antonyt.infiniteviewpager.InfiniteViewPager 
       android:id="@+id/myimagepager" 
       android:layout_width="match_parent" 
       android:layout_height="match_parent" />

You can rename the classes to whatever you want. This code only works if you have at least three pages (you have nine in your example code, so it will work fine for that).