I want to to a horizontal ScrollView with pagination enabled with one special requirement: each page (or card) is 90% of the container wide. The remaining 10% should be a preview of the next page.
It is possible to do this with ScrollView? Can I somehow specify the width of the pagination instead of taking the width of the container?
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You can absolutely do that with ScrollView
or, even better, FlatList
. However, the really tricky part is the snapping effect. You can use props snapToInterval
and snapToAlignment
to achieve it (see Vasil Enchev's answer); unfortunately, these are iOS-only.
A co-worker and I created a plugin that answers this particular need. We ended up open-sourcing it, so it's all yours to try: react-native-snap-carousel
.
The plugin is now built on top of FlatList
(versions >= 3.0.0), which is great to handle huge numbers of items. It provides previews (the effect you're after), snapping effect for iOS and Android, parallax images, RTL support, and more.
You can take a look at the showcase to get a grasp of what can be achieved with it. Do not hesitate to share your experience with the plugin since we're always trying to improve it.
Edit : two new layouts have been introduced in version 3.6.0
(one with a stack of cards effect and the other with a tinder-like effect). Enjoy!
I spend a lot of time fighting with this until I figured it out so here is my solution if it helps someone.
https://snack.expo.io/H1CnjIeDb
Problem was all these were required and pagination should be turned off
horizontal={true}
decelerationRate={0}
snapToInterval={width - 60}
snapToAlignment={"center"}
You can pass a horizontal props to your scroll view:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/scrollview.html#horizontal
And then you can create a view inside to specify your width requirements.
<ScrollView
ref={(snapScroll) => { this.snapScroll = snapScroll; }}
horizontal={true}
decelerationRate={0}
onResponderRelease={()=>{
var interval = 300; // WIDTH OF 1 CHILD COMPONENT
var snapTo = (this.scrollingRight)? Math.ceil(this.lastx / interval) :
Math.floor(this.lastx / interval);
var scrollTo = snapTo * interval;
this.snapScroll.scrollTo(0,scrollTo);
}}
scrollEventThrottle={32}
onScroll={(event)=>{
var nextx = event.nativeEvent.contentOffset.x;
this.scrollingRight = (nextx > this.lastx);
this.lastx = nextx;
}}
showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false}
style={styles.listViewHorizontal}
>
{/* scroll-children here */}
</ScrollView>
You can look at contentOffset
and scrollTo
property of ScrollView . Logically what you can do is whenever the page changes(mostly when moved to next page) you can provide a extra offset of 10% or so as per your need so that the next item in the scrollview becomes visible .
Hope this helps, let me know if you need any extra details .