How to do circular scrolling on ViewPager?

Question

I would like to set my ViewPager to do circular scrolling. I want the first page to be able to scroll to page 2 AND the last page. And I would like my last page to scroll to

Answer 1

Ok, I have an answer. It was actually easier than I expected, but it does take some trickery. First, let me begin with the set up. Lets say, for example, you have three pages (A-B-C) that you are scrolling through in your ViewPager. And you want to set it up so that if you continue scrolling on C (pg. 3), it goes to A (pg. 1) and if you scrolled backwards on A (pg. 1) it goes to C (pg. 3).

I am not saying my solution is the best, but it works and I do not see any issues. First, you have to create two "fake" pages. The fake pages represent the first and last pages of your ViewPager. The next thing you will need is to set up an onPageChangeListener(), and use the method onPageSelected(). The reason why you need the fake pages is because onPageSelected() only registers after you have moved (swiped). In other words, without this method the end user would have to scroll to page 2 and back to page 1 to receive a hit on page 1, which also means that page 1 would be skipped depending on your code logic.

The setup is really the entire answer. Once you have your fake pages, it is just a matter of using setCurrentItem() inside the necessary method.

Here is how my code looks. Be sure to place this inside your public Object instantiateItem(final ViewGroup container, final int position) method, just before you return your view inside of your container.

((ViewPager) container).setOnPageChangeListener(new OnPageChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onPageSelected(int position) {
                Log.d(TAG, "onPageSelected() :: " + "position: " + position);

                // skip fake page (first), go to last page
                if (position == 0) {
                    ((ViewPager) container).setCurrentItem(118, false);
                }

                // skip fake page (last), go to first page
                if (position == 119) {
                    ((ViewPager) container).setCurrentItem(1, false); //notice how this jumps to position 1, and not position 0. Position 0 is the fake page!
                }

            }

That's it, it does the trick! The only other thing to do is start your ViewPager on position 1 (which is the second page: fake page = pg 1, my real starting page = pg 2). Now, every time I scroll to the fake page, I redirect it backwards to the last real page. And every time I scroll forward to the last fake page, I redirect it forwards to the real starting page (pg 2).

Also, do not try to put any code in onPageScrollStateChanged. That method is bizarre, it seems that the state value is uncontrollable. It constantly jumps from one state to another. Even without scrolling. That is just a tip I picked up.