Slowing speed of Viewpager controller in android

Question

Is there any way to slow the scroll speed with the viewpager adaptor in android?

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You know, I've been looking at this code. I can't figure out what I'm dong wrong.

try{ 
    Field mScroller = mPager.getClass().getDeclaredField("mScroller"); 
    mScroller.setAccessible(true); 
    Scroller scroll = new Scroller(cxt);
    Field scrollDuration = scroll.getClass().getDeclaredField("mDuration");
    scrollDuration.setAccessible(true);
    scrollDuration.set(scroll, 1000);
    mScroller.set(mPager, scroll);
}catch (Exception e){
    Toast.makeText(cxt, "something happened", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
} 

It doesn't change anything yet no exceptions occur?

Answer 1

I've started with HighFlyer's code which indeed changed the mScroller field (which is a great start) but didn't help extend the duration of the scroll because ViewPager explicitly passes the duration to the mScroller when requesting to scroll.

Extending ViewPager didn't work as the important method (smoothScrollTo) can't be overridden.

I ended up fixing this by extending Scroller with this code:

public class FixedSpeedScroller extends Scroller {

    private int mDuration = 5000;

    public FixedSpeedScroller(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public FixedSpeedScroller(Context context, Interpolator interpolator) {
        super(context, interpolator);
    }

    public FixedSpeedScroller(Context context, Interpolator interpolator, boolean flywheel) {
        super(context, interpolator, flywheel);
    }


    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy, int duration) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, mDuration);
    }

    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, mDuration);
    }
}

And using it like this:

try {
    Field mScroller;
    mScroller = ViewPager.class.getDeclaredField("mScroller");
    mScroller.setAccessible(true); 
    FixedSpeedScroller scroller = new FixedSpeedScroller(mPager.getContext(), sInterpolator);
    // scroller.setFixedDuration(5000);
    mScroller.set(mPager, scroller);
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
}

I've basically hardcoded the duration to 5 seconds and made my ViewPager use it.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I've wanted to do myself and have achieved a solution (using reflection, however). It's similar to the accepted solution but uses the same interpolator and only changes the duration based on a factor. You need to use a ViewPagerCustomDuration in your XML instead of ViewPager, and then you can do this:

ViewPagerCustomDuration vp = (ViewPagerCustomDuration) findViewById(R.id.myPager);
vp.setScrollDurationFactor(2); // make the animation twice as slow

ViewPagerCustomDuration.java:

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.animation.Interpolator;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public class ViewPagerCustomDuration extends ViewPager {

    public ViewPagerCustomDuration(Context context) {
        super(context);
        postInitViewPager();
    }

    public ViewPagerCustomDuration(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        postInitViewPager();
    }

    private ScrollerCustomDuration mScroller = null;

    /**
     * Override the Scroller instance with our own class so we can change the
     * duration
     */
    private void postInitViewPager() {
        try {
            Class<?> viewpager = ViewPager.class;
            Field scroller = viewpager.getDeclaredField("mScroller");
            scroller.setAccessible(true);
            Field interpolator = viewpager.getDeclaredField("sInterpolator");
            interpolator.setAccessible(true);

            mScroller = new ScrollerCustomDuration(getContext(),
                    (Interpolator) interpolator.get(null));
            scroller.set(this, mScroller);
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }

    /**
     * Set the factor by which the duration will change
     */
    public void setScrollDurationFactor(double scrollFactor) {
        mScroller.setScrollDurationFactor(scrollFactor);
    }

}

ScrollerCustomDuration.java:

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.animation.Interpolator;
import android.widget.Scroller;

public class ScrollerCustomDuration extends Scroller {

    private double mScrollFactor = 1;

    public ScrollerCustomDuration(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public ScrollerCustomDuration(Context context, Interpolator interpolator) {
        super(context, interpolator);
    }

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public ScrollerCustomDuration(Context context, Interpolator interpolator, boolean flywheel) {
        super(context, interpolator, flywheel);
    }

    /**
     * Set the factor by which the duration will change
     */
    public void setScrollDurationFactor(double scrollFactor) {
        mScrollFactor = scrollFactor;
    }

    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy, int duration) {
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, (int) (duration * mScrollFactor));
    }

}

Hope this helps someone!

Answer 3

This is not perfect solution, you can't make velocity slower because it's an int. But for me it's slow enough and I don't have to use reflection.

Notice the package where the class is. smoothScrollTo has package visibility.

package android.support.v4.view;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;

public class SmoothViewPager extends ViewPager {
    private int mVelocity = 1;

    public SmoothViewPager(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public SmoothViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    void smoothScrollTo(int x, int y, int velocity) {
        //ignore passed velocity, use one defined here
        super.smoothScrollTo(x, y, mVelocity);
    }
}

Answer 4

Based on accepted solution I have created kotlin class with extension for view pager. Enjoy! :)

class ViewPageScroller : Scroller {

    var fixedDuration = 1500 //time to scroll in milliseconds

    constructor(context: Context) : super(context)

    constructor(context: Context, interpolator: Interpolator) : super(context, interpolator)

    constructor(context: Context, interpolator: Interpolator, flywheel: Boolean) : super(context, interpolator, flywheel)


    override fun startScroll(startX: Int, startY: Int, dx: Int, dy: Int, duration: Int) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, fixedDuration)
    }

    override fun startScroll(startX: Int, startY: Int, dx: Int, dy: Int) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, fixedDuration)
    }
}

fun ViewPager.setViewPageScroller(viewPageScroller: ViewPageScroller) {
    try {
        val mScroller: Field = ViewPager::class.java.getDeclaredField("mScroller")
        mScroller.isAccessible = true
        mScroller.set(this, viewPageScroller)
    } catch (e: NoSuchFieldException) {
    } catch (e: IllegalArgumentException) {
    } catch (e: IllegalAccessException) {
    }

}

Answer 5

The fakeDrag methods on ViewPager seem to provide an alternative solution.

For example this will page from item 0 to 1:

rootView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
  @Override
  public void onClick(View v) {
      ViewPager pager = (ViewPager) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.pager);
      //pager.setCurrentItem(1, true);
      pager.beginFakeDrag();
      Handler handler = new Handler();
      handler.post(new PageTurner(handler, pager));
  }
});


private static class PageTurner implements Runnable {
  private final Handler handler;
  private final ViewPager pager;
  private int count = 0;

  private PageTurner(Handler handler, ViewPager pager) {
    this.handler = handler;
    this.pager = pager;
  }

  @Override
  public void run() {
    if (pager.isFakeDragging()) {
      if (count < 20) {
        count++;
        pager.fakeDragBy(-count * count);
        handler.postDelayed(this, 20);
      } else {
        pager.endFakeDrag();
      }
    }
  }
}

(The count * count is just there to make the drag speed up as it goes)

Answer 6

As you can see in ViewPager sources, duration of fling controlled by mScroller object. In documantation we may read:

The duration of the scroll can be passed in the constructor and specifies the maximum time that the scrolling animation should take

So, if you want to control speed, you may change mScroller object via reflection.

You should write something like this:

setContentView(R.layout.main);
mPager = (ViewPager)findViewById(R.id.view_pager);
Field mScroller = ViewPager.class.getDeclaredField("mScroller");   
mScroller.setAccessible(true);
mScroller.set(mPager, scroller); // initialize scroller object by yourself