How to handle scrollview gestures inside a Flutter PageView?

Question

1. Summary of my problem

Goal

My goal is to present a carousel with long pages. So I use a PageView with scrollviews. The PageView scrolls horizontally. The scrollviews (children) scroll vertically.

Expected Results

Swipe horizontally and scroll vertically smoothly.

Actual Results

If I swipe horizontally to the next page, I can't scroll it vertically right away. I need to wait for 1 second. It seems the user must wait the animation completion to be able to interact with the new current page.

What have I tried so far :

• I tried gesture recognizer to pass the dragging event but I didn't get it working.
• I tried different widgets to replace the PageView but same effect.
• I tried AutomaticKeepAliveClientMixin with wantKeepAlive = true
• I tried PageView.physics = AlwaysScrollableScrollPhysics()

Here's the minimum code you would need to reproduce the problem

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: MyHomePage(),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  MyHomePage({Key key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: carousel(),
    );
  }

  Widget carousel() {
    return PageView(
      children: <Widget>[
        page(Colors.pinkAccent),
        page(Colors.blueAccent),
        page(Colors.orangeAccent)
      ],
    );
  }

  Widget page(Color color) {
    return Container(
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
          color: color,
        ),
        child: SingleChildScrollView(
          child: Column(
              children: pageContent()),
        ));
  }

  List<Widget> pageContent() {
    return <Widget>[
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
      Row(children: <Widget>[Text("Hop", textScaleFactor: 5,)]),
    ];
  }
}

Answer 1

I succeeded to find a solution to make my PageView really smooth horizontally and vertically.

I disable PageView.pageSnapping to make the carousel very smooth. However I lost the magnetic effect, so I use a NotificationListener to catch the ScrollEndNotification event. When the scrolling ends, I calculate the most visible page to the user and call PageController.animateToPage() to finish the job.

The code looks like this:

Widget getCarousel() {

  return NotificationListener<ScrollNotification>(
  onNotification: (scrollNotification) {

    if (scrollNotification is ScrollEndNotification) {
      print("ScrollEndNotification");

      Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 0), () {
        int newPage = pageController.page.round();
        print("end at $newPage");
        pageController.animateToPage(newPage, duration: Duration(milliseconds: 400), curve: Curves.fastOutSlowIn);
      });
    }
    return true;
  },
  child: PageView.builder(
    scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal,
    pageSnapping: false,
    controller: pageController,
    itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) {
      return myPages[index];
    },
  )
);
}