Augment Android's ViewPager with wrap-around functionality. Original StackOverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7546224/viewpager-as-a-circular-queue-wrapping
With a normal ViewPager, you can only scroll from the first page to second page (and so forth), from left-to-right. Once you reach the last page, your only option is to scroll backwards, right-to-left. In other words, 'wrap-around scrolling' (going from first-to-last, and last-to-first) is not possible.
Use the InfiniteViewPager
in your Activity/Fragment layout:
...
<com.antonyt.infiniteviewpager.InfiniteViewPager
android:id="@+id/pager"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
...
Wrap your existing PagerAdapter
with the InfinitePagerAdapter
:
...
PagerAdapter wrappedAdapter = new InfinitePagerAdapter(adapter);
viewPager.setAdapter(wrappedAdapter);
...
Wrapped scrolling should now be possible with your ViewPager
. The pages you see are not duplicates - each page from your PagerAdapter
is only created once and then reused. This means you do not have to worry about managing multiple instances of the same Fragment
.
It is only possible to achieve wrapping when you have at least 4 pages. This is because of the way the ViewPager
creates, destroys, and displays the pages. No fix for the general case has been found.