MetalRecyclerPagerView

Heavy-heavy metal made RecyclerView look and feel like a ViewPager.

Additionally to the full charged power of RecyclerView you can setup margins for pager items to achieve the following effect:

Let's rock!

1. Add MetalRecyclerPagerView into your layout

<com.sandrlab.widgets.MetalRecyclerViewPager
    android:id="@+id/viewPager"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:itemMargin="32dp"/>

Here you can set app:itemMargin attribute to add item margin: it affects left and right margins only.

2. Create pager item view layout

Add @+id/root_layout id for your root item layout. For example:

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

    <android.support.v7.widget.CardView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <!-- ... -->

    </android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

</FrameLayout>

3. Create Adapter

3.1 Create your adapter as usual for RecyclerView but inherit it from a new MetalRecyclerViewPager.MetalAdapter.

3.2 As for ViewHolder - also inherit it from MetalRecyclerViewPager.MetalViewHolder and call super.onBindViewHolder(holder, position) within your onBindViewHolder implementation (don't forget to call it, item margins are not able to work properly without this thing).

public class YourCoolAdapter extends MetalRecyclerViewPager.MetalAdapter<YourCoolAdapter.YourCoolViewHolder> {

    public YourCoolAdapter(@NonNull DisplayMetrics metrics, @NonNull List<String> yourDataSource) {
        super(metrics);
        
        // ...
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(FullMetalViewHolder holder, int position) {
        // don't forget to call supper.onBindViewHolder!
        super.onBindViewHolder(holder, position);

        // ...
    }

    static class YourCoolViewHolder extends MetalRecyclerViewPager.MetalViewHolder {

        public FullMetalViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);

            // ...
        }
    }

    // ...
}

4. Put it all together

To instantiate your adapter you will need to pass DisplayMetrics into it. No need to setup LayoutManager - it's already done within MetalRecyclerViewPager itself.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        DisplayMetrics metrics = getDisplayMetrics();
        List<String> metalList = Arrays.asList("\\m/", "\\m/", "\\m/");
        MetalRecyclerViewPager.MetalAdapter fullMetalAdapter = new YourCoolAdapter(metrics, metalList);

        MetalRecyclerViewPager viewPager = (MetalRecyclerViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewPager);
        viewPager.setAdapter(fullMetalAdapter);
    }

    private DisplayMetrics getDisplayMetrics() {
        Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
        DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
        display.getMetrics(metrics);

        return metrics;
    }
}

Download

Simply copy MetalRecyclerViewPager.java along with attrs.xml and ids.xml into your project.

Full sample project

Find it here.

Known issues

As we have a recycler view here, it always takes focus: if you place MetalRecyclerViewPager into ScrollView Android will automatically scroll layout to MetalRecyclerViewPager. To avoid this behavior place MetalRecyclerViewPager into NestedScrollView and add android:focusableInTouchMode="true" to upper container:

<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fillViewport="true">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:orientation="vertical">
        
        <!-- ... -->
        
        <com.sandrlab.widgets.MetalRecyclerViewPager
            android:id="@+id/viewPager"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:itemMargin="32dp"/> 
            
        <!-- ... -->
        
    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

License

Copyright (C) 2017. Alexander Bilchuk

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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