Horizontal ListView in Android?

Question

Is it possible to make the ListView horizontally? I have done this using a gallery view, but the selected item comes to the center of the screen automatically.

Answer 1

I had to do the same for one of my projects and I ended up writing my own as well. I called it HorzListView is now part of my open source Aniqroid library.

http://aniqroid.sileria.com/doc/api/ (Look for downloads at the bottom or use google code project to see more download options: http://code.google.com/p/aniqroid/downloads/list)

The class documentation is here: http://aniqroid.sileria.com/doc/api/com/sileria/android/view/HorzListView.html

Answer 2

I had used horizontal listview link in my project & I got good results. I had been used devsmart library initially but it gave me some issues. So best way to use horizontal listview link as it recovered my issues & also I recently launched my app on Google PlayStore using this library & got nice response from users. So I recommend you to use the same library which I mentioned above to show listview horizontally. Enjoy :)

Answer 3

Since Google introduced Android Support Library v7 21.0.0, you can use RecyclerView to scroll items horizontally. The RecyclerView widget is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView.

To use RecyclerView, just add dependency:

com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.0.1

Here is a sample:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {

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

        RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);

        LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
        layoutManager.setOrientation(LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

        MyAdapter adapter = new MyAdapter(myDataset);
        recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
    }
}

More info about RecyclerView:

• https://developer.android.com/training/material/lists-cards.html
• https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.html

Answer 4

This isn't much of an answer, but how about using a Horizontal Scroll View?

Answer 5

This is a little (very) late, but I'm posting this in case someone comes by this later.

The Support Library as of the Android L preview has a RecyclerView that does exactly what you want.

Right now, you can only get it through the L preview SDK and you need to set your minSdk to L. But you can copy all of the necessary files into your project and use them that way until L is officially out.

You can download the preview docs here.

Warning: The API for Recycler View may change and it may have bugs.

Updated

The source code for horizontal listview is:

LinearLayoutManager layoutManager
    = new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false);

RecyclerView myList = findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
myList.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

Answer 6

My solution is to simply use ViewPager widget. It isn't center-locked as Gallery and has a built-in features for recycling views (as ListView). You may see similar approach at Google Play app, whenever you deal with horizontally scrollable lists.

You just need to extend PagerAdapter and perform a couple of tweaks there:

public class MyPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    private Context mContext;

    public MyPagerAdapter(Context context) {
        this.mContext = context;
    }

    // As per docs, you may use views as key objects directly 
    // if they aren't too complex
    @Override
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(mContext);
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item, null);
        container.addView(view);
        return view;
    }

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

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 10;
    }

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

    // Important: page takes all available width by default,
    // so let's override this method to fit 5 pages within single screen
    @Override
    public float getPageWidth(int position) {
        return 0.2f;
    }
}

As result, you'll have horizontally scrollable widget with adapter, like this: