Can I use view pager with views (not with fragments)

Question

I am using ViewPager for swiping between Fragments, but can I use ViewPager to swipe between Views simple XML layout?

This is my page Adapter for the ViewPager which is used to swipe between Fragments:

import java.util.List;

import com.app.name.fragments.TipsFragment;

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

public class PageAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

    /**
     *
     */
    List<Fragment> fragments;
    public PageAdapter(FragmentManager fm,List<Fragment> frags) {
        super(fm);
        fragments = frags;

    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return TipsFragment.newInstance(0, 0);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return 4;
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
        FragmentManager manager = ((Fragment) object).getFragmentManager();
        FragmentTransaction trans = manager.beginTransaction();
        trans.remove((Fragment) object);
        trans.commit();

        super.destroyItem(container, position, object);
    }

}

And this is my tip fragment:

public class TipsFragment extends Fragment
{
    public static TipsFragment newInstance(int image,int content)
    {
        TipsFragment fragment = new TipsFragment();
        return fragment;
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tip_layout, null);
        return view;
    }
}

How can I modify my code to work with Views instead of Fragment?

Answer 1

You need to override these two methods rather than getItem():

@Override
public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup collection, int position) {
    View v = layoutInflater.inflate(...);
    ...
    collection.addView(v,0);
    return v;
}

@Override
public void destroyItem(ViewGroup collection, int position, Object view) {
    collection.removeView((View) view);
}

Answer 2

Use this example

You can use a single XML layout nesting the children views.

 <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
            android:id="@+id/pager"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/page_one"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical" >
                        <TextView
                        android:text="PAGE ONE IN"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="match_parent"
                        android:textColor="#fff"
                        android:textSize="24dp"/>
            </LinearLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/page_two"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical" >
                        <TextView
                        android:text="PAGE TWO IN"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="match_parent"
                        android:textColor="#fff"
                        android:textSize="24dp"/>
            </LinearLayout>

    </android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>
</LinearLayout>

BUT... you need handle this with an adapter also. Here we return the finded view ID without inflate any other layout.

class WizardPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup collection, int position) {

        int resId = 0;
        switch (position) {
        case 0:
            resId = R.id.page_one;
            break;
        case 1:
            resId = R.id.page_two;
            break;
        }
        return findViewById(resId);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 2;
    }

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

    @Override public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
        // No super
    }
}

// Set the ViewPager adapter

WizardPagerAdapter adapter = new WizardPagerAdapter();
ViewPager pager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
pager.setAdapter(adapter);

Answer 3

We have build a very simple subclass of the ViewPager that we use sometimes.

/**
 * View pager used for a finite, low number of pages, where there is no need for
 * optimization.
 */
public class StaticViewPager extends ViewPager {

    /**
     * Initialize the view.
     *
     * @param context
     *            The application context.
     */
    public StaticViewPager(final Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    /**
     * Initialize the view.
     *
     * @param context
     *            The application context.
     * @param attrs
     *            The requested attributes.
     */
    public StaticViewPager(final Context context, final AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onAttachedToWindow() {
        super.onAttachedToWindow();

        // Make sure all are loaded at once
        final int childrenCount = getChildCount();
        setOffscreenPageLimit(childrenCount - 1);

        // Attach the adapter
        setAdapter(new PagerAdapter() {

            @Override
            public Object instantiateItem(final ViewGroup container, final int position) {
                return container.getChildAt(position);
            }

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

            }

            @Override
            public int getCount() {
                return childrenCount;
            }

            @Override
            public void destroyItem(final View container, final int position, final Object object) {}
        });
    }

}

This class does not need a adapter as it will load the views from the layout. In order to use it your projects, just use it instead of the android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.

All the fancy stuff will still work, but you do not need to be bothered with the adapters.

Answer 4

Based on the previous answers, I made the following class to achieve that in a proper and clearest way (I hope):

public class MyViewPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    ArrayList<ViewGroup> views;
    LayoutInflater inflater;

    public MyViewPagerAdapter(ActionBarActivity ctx){
        inflater = LayoutInflater.from(ctx);
        //instantiate your views list
        views = new ArrayList<ViewGroup>(5);
    }

    /**
     * To be called by onStop
     * Clean the memory
     */
    public void release(){
     views.clear();
        views = null;
    }

    /**
     * Return the number of views available.
     */
    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 5;
    }

    /**
     * Create the page for the given position. The adapter is responsible
     * for adding the view to the container given here, although it only
     * must ensure this is done by the time it returns from
     * {@link #finishUpdate(ViewGroup)}.
     *
     * @param container The containing View in which the page will be shown.
     * @param position The page position to be instantiated.
     * @return Returns an Object representing the new page. This does not
     *         need to be a View, but can be some other container of
     *         the page.  ,container
     */
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
        ViewGroup currentView;
        Log.e("MyViewPagerAdapter", "instantiateItem for " + position);
        if(views.size()>position&&views.get(position) != null){
            Log.e("MyViewPagerAdapter",
                  "instantiateItem views.get(position) " +
                  views.get(position));
            currentView = views.get(position);
        }
        else{
            Log.e("MyViewPagerAdapter", "instantiateItem need to create the View");
            int rootLayout = R.layout.view_screen;
            currentView = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(rootLayout, container, false);

            ((TextView)currentView.findViewById(R.id.txvTitle)).setText("My Views " + position);
            ((TextView)currentView.findViewById(R.id.btnButton)).setText("Button");
            ((ImageView)currentView.findViewById(R.id.imvPicture)).setBackgroundColor(0xFF00FF00);
        }
        container.addView(currentView);
        return currentView;
    }

    /**
     * Remove a page for the given position. The adapter is responsible
     * for removing the view from its container, although it only must ensure
     * this is done by the time it returns from {@link #finishUpdate(ViewGroup)}.
     *
     * @param container The containing View from which the page will be removed.
     * @param position The page position to be removed.
     * @param object The same object that was returned by
     * {@link #instantiateItem(View, int)}.
     */
    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
        container.removeView((View)object);

    }

    /**
     * Determines whether a page View is associated with a specific key object
     * as returned by {@link #instantiateItem(ViewGroup, int)}. This method is
     * required for a PagerAdapter to function properly.
     *
     * @param view   Page View to check for association with <code>object</code>
     * @param object Object to check for association with <code>view</code>
     * @return true if <code>view</code> is associated with the key object <code>object</code>
     */
    @Override
    public boolean isViewFromObject(View view, Object object) {
        return view==((View)object);
    }
}

And you have to set it in your activity:

public class ActivityWithViewsPaged extends ActionBarActivity {

    /**
     * The page Adapter: Manage the list of views (in fact here, its fragments)
     * And send them to the ViewPager
     */
    private MyViewPagerAdapter pagerAdapter;

    /**
     * The ViewPager is a ViewGroup that manage the swipe from left
     * to right to left.
     * Like a listView with a gesture listener...
     */
    private ViewPager viewPager;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_with_views);

        // Find the viewPager
        viewPager = (ViewPager) super.findViewById(R.id.viewpager);

        // Instantiate the PageAdapter
        pagerAdapter = new MyViewPagerAdapter(this);

        // Affectation de l'adapter au ViewPager
        viewPager.setAdapter(pagerAdapter);
        viewPager.setClipToPadding(false);
        viewPager.setPageMargin(12);

        // Add animation when the page are swiped
        // this instanciation only works with honeyComb and more
        // if you want it all version use AnimatorProxy of the nineoldAndroid lib
        //@see:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15767729/backwards-compatible-pagetransformer
        if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB){
            viewPager.setPageTransformer(true, new PageTransformer());
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        pagerAdapter.release();
    }

Where the XML files are obvious view_screen.xml:

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/screen"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

 <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txvTitle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:shadowColor="#FF00FF"
        android:shadowDx="10"
        android:shadowDy="10"
        android:shadowRadius="5"
        android:textSize="32dp"
        android:textStyle="italic"
        android:background="#FFFFF000"/>
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="#FFFF00F0">
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/txvLeft"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="left"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"/>
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"/>
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/txvRight"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="right"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"/>
    </LinearLayout>
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnButton"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"/>
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imvPicture"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center"/>
</LinearLayout>

And ActivtyMain has the following layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:paddingLeft="24dp"
    android:paddingRight="24dp"
    android:id="@+id/viewpager"
    android:background="#FF00F0F0">
</android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>

Big thanks to Brian and Nicholas for your answer, I hope I add some clearest information and hightlight some good practices for this feature.

Answer 5

I would like to add my solution here. Given that you don't need to use fragments, you can still create a PagerAdapter which attaches views instead of fragments to the ViewPager.

Extend PagerAdapter instead of FragmentPagerAdapter

public class CustomPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

  private Context context;

  public CustomPagerAdapter(Context context) {
    super();
    this.context = context;
  }


  @Override
  public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup collection, int position) {
    LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    View view = null;
    switch (position){
      case 0:
        view = MemoryView.getView(context, collection);
        break;
      case 1:
        view = NetworkView.getView(context, collection);
        break;
      case 2:
        view = CpuView.getView(context, collection);
        break;
    }

    collection.addView(view);
    return view;
  }

  @Override
  public int getCount() {
    return 3;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isViewFromObject(View view, Object object) {
    return view==object;
  }

  @Override
  public void destroyItem(ViewGroup collection, int position, Object view) {
    collection.removeView((View) view);
  }
}

Now you need to define three classes which will return the views to be inflated in the viewpager. Similar to CpuView you will have MemoryView and NetworkView classes. Each of them will inflate their respective layouts.

public class CpuView {

public static View getView(Context context, ViewGroup collection) {

    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context
        .LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    return inflater.inflate(R.layout.debugger_cpu_layout, collection, false);
  }
}

And finally a layout which will be inflated in each of the views

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:text="CPU"/>
</LinearLayout>

P.S.: The reason I wrote this answer is because all the solutions provided here seems to be working fine, but they are inflating the layouts in the PagerAdapter class itself. For large projects it becomes difficult to maintain if their is a lot of code related to the layouts inflated. Now in this example all the views have separate classes and separate layouts. So the project can be easily maintained.

Answer 6

I'd like to elaborate on @Nicholas answer, you can get the views by id or if they're dynamically added just get the view directly given its position

class WizardPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    public Object instantiateItem(View collection, int position) {

        View v = pager.getChildAt(position);

        return v;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 3;
    }

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

Answer 7

If you use ViewPager2, according to the documentation, you can use a standard RecyclerView.Adapter:

If you're planning to use Fragments as pages, implement FragmentStateAdapter. If your pages are Views, implement RecyclerView.Adapter as usual.

https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/viewpager2/widget/ViewPager2#setAdapter(androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.Adapter)

Answer 8

yes...you can use View instead of Fragment in viewpager. Here you can Find Whole example that will help you to achieve Viewpager without Fragment. Go through this documentation.

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/viewpager-without-fragments/