Changing ViewPager to enable infinite page scrolling

Question

Jon Willis has posted on how to enable an infinite scrolling with his code.

In there he said that he made some changes in the ViewPager class in the android support library. Which changes have been made and how is it possible to "recompile" the library with the ViewPager change?

Answer 1

Thank you for your answer Shereef.

I solved it a little bit differently.

I changed the code of the ViewPager class of the android support library. The method setCurrentItem(int)

changes the page with animation. This method calls an internal method that requires the index and a flag enabling smooth scrolling. This flag is boolean smoothScroll. Extending this method with a second parameter boolean smoothScroll solved it for me. Calling this method setCurrentItem(int index, boolean smoothScroll) allowed me to make it scroll indefinitely.

Here is a full example:

Please consider that only the center page is shown. Moreover did I store the pages seperately, allowing me to handle them with more ease.

private class Page {
  View page;
  List<..> data;
}
// page for predecessor, current, and successor
Page[] pages = new Page[3];




mDayPager.setOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {

        @Override
        public void onPageSelected(int position) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {}

        @Override
        public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {

            if (state == ViewPager.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE) {

                if (mFocusedPage == 0) {
                    // move some stuff from the 
                                            // center to the right here
                    moveStuff(pages[1], pages[2]);

                    // move stuff from the left to the center 
                    moveStuff(pages[0], pages[1]);
                    // retrieve new stuff and insert it to the left page
                    insertStuff(pages[0]);
                }
                else if (mFocusedPage == 2) {


                    // move stuff from the center to the left page
                    moveStuff(pages[1], pages[0]); 
                    // move stuff from the right to the center page
                    moveStuff(pages[2], pages[1]); 
                    // retrieve stuff and insert it to the right page
                                            insertStuff(pages[2]);
                }

                // go back to the center allowing to scroll indefinitely
                mDayPager.setCurrentItem(1, false);
            }
        }
    });

However, without Jon Willis Code I wouldn't have solved it myself.

EDIT: here is a blogpost about this: