Fix the Animation of a Circular ViewPager

Question

Goal

Build a Circular ViewPager.

The first element lets you peak to the last element and swipe to it, and vice versa. You should be able to

Answer 1

I think the best doable approach would be instead of using a normal list to have a wrapper to the List that when the get(pos) method is executed to obtain the object to create the view, you make something like this get(pos % numberOfViews) and when it ask for the size of the List you put that the List is Integer.MAX_VALUE and you start your List in the middle of it so you can say that is mostly impossible to have an error, unless they actually swipe to the same side until the reach the end of the List. I will try to post a proof of concept later this weak if the time allows me to do so.

EDIT:

I have tried this piece of code, i know is a simple textbox shown on each view, but the fact is that it works perfectly, it might be slower depending on the total amount of views but the proof of concept is here. What i have done is that the MAX_NUMBER_VIEWS represents what is the maximum numbers of times a user can completely give before he is stopped. and as you can see i started the viewpager at the length of my array so that would be the second time it appears so you have one turn extra to the left and right but you can change it as you need it. I hope i do not get more negative points for a solution that in fact does work.

ACTIVITY:

pager = (ViewPager)findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
String[] articles = {"ARTICLE 1","ARTICLE 2","ARTICLE 3","ARTICLE 4"};
pager.setAdapter(new ViewPagerAdapter(this, articles));
pager.setCurrentItem(articles.length);

ADAPTER:

public class ViewPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

private Context ctx;
private String[] articles;
private final int MAX_NUMBER_VIEWS = 3;

public ViewPagerAdapter(Context ctx, String[] articles) {
    this.ctx = ctx;
    this.articles = articles.clone();
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return articles.length * this.MAX_NUMBER_VIEWS;
}

@Override
public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
    TextView view = new TextView(ctx);
    view.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
                                          LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
    int realPosition = position % articles.length;
    view.setText(this.articles[realPosition]);
    ((ViewPager) container).addView(view);
    return view;
}

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

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

@Override
public Parcelable saveState() {
    return null;
}

}