ViewPager detect when user is trying to swipe out of bounds

Question

I am using the ViewPager consisting of 6 pages to display some data. I want to be able to call a method when the user is at position 0 and tries to swipe to the right (backw

Answer 1

How about setting an OnPageChangeListener on your ViewPager? Then you can modify your navigation arrows or whatever in the onPageScrolled.

viewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(new OnPageChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onPageSelected(int position) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
            updateNavigationArrows();
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
    }
});

Answer 2

I wonder how it worked for others, it's not working for me.

onInterceptTouchEvent() only takes ACTION_DOWN event. While onTouchEvent() only takes one event at a time either ACTION_DOWN, ACTION_UP and others.

I had to override both onInterceptTouchEvent() and onTouchEvent() to make it work properly. The ACTION_DOWN of onInterceptTouchEvent grabs initial X point of touch, and OnTouchEvent grabs final X2 point. Which I compared it to detect swipe direction.

Get initial X value of the touch:

float x1 = 0;
@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        switch(ev.getAction() & MotionEventCompat.ACTION_MASK){
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            x1 = ev.getX();
            break;
        }
        return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev);
    }

From tjlian616's code, the onTouchEvent() listens to ACTION_UP and gets it's last X Value. While I've set my current item's value to be 0 to get swipe out at start listener. Compared it and add fired up the listener.

 @Override
 public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){
        if(getCurrentItem()==0){
            final int action = ev.getAction();
            switch(action & MotionEventCompat.ACTION_MASK){
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                mStartDragX = ev.getX();
                if (x1<mStartDragX){
                    Log.i("TOUCH: ", "ACTION UP " + x1 + " : " + mStartDragX );
                    mListener.onSwipeOutAtStart();
                }else{
                    Log.i("TOUCH ELSE : ", "ACTION UP " + x1 + " : " + mStartDragX );
                    mStartDragX = 0;
                }
                break;
            }
        }else{
            mStartDragX=0;
        }
        return super.onTouchEvent(ev);
    }    

Answer 3

Extend ViewPager and override onInterceptTouchEvent() like this:

public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager {

    float mStartDragX;
    OnSwipeOutListener mListener;


    public void setOnSwipeOutListener(OnSwipeOutListener listener) {
        mListener = listener;
    }


    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        float x = ev.getX();
        switch (ev.getAction()) {
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            mStartDragX = x;
            break;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
            if (mStartDragX < x && getCurrentItem() == 0) {
                mListener.onSwipeOutAtStart();
            } else if (mStartDragX > x && getCurrentItem() == getAdapter().getCount() - 1) {
                mListener.onSwipeOutAtEnd();
            }
            break;
        }
        return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev);
    }

    public interface OnSwipeOutListener {
        public void onSwipeOutAtStart();
        public void onSwipeOutAtEnd();
    }

}

Answer 4

Thanks a lot to @Flavio, although i had to do some changes to his code because the callbacks methods were firing twice, also I added code to check if there was any registered listener, to avoid app crashing when there is no listener registered. This is the code I used to make it work, with both onSwipeOutAtStart and onSwipeOutAtEnd:

public class CustomViewPager extends android.support.v4.view.ViewPager {

    float mStartDragX;
    OnSwipeOutListener mOnSwipeOutListener;

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

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

    public void setOnSwipeOutListener(OnSwipeOutListener listener) {
        mOnSwipeOutListener = listener;
    }

    private void onSwipeOutAtStart() {
        if (mOnSwipeOutListener!=null) {
            mOnSwipeOutListener.onSwipeOutAtStart();
        }
    }

    private void onSwipeOutAtEnd() {
        if (mOnSwipeOutListener!=null) {
            mOnSwipeOutListener.onSwipeOutAtEnd();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        switch(ev.getAction() & MotionEventCompat.ACTION_MASK){
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                mStartDragX = ev.getX();
                break;
        }
        return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){

        if(getCurrentItem()==0 || getCurrentItem()==getAdapter().getCount()-1){
            final int action = ev.getAction();
            float x = ev.getX();
            switch(action & MotionEventCompat.ACTION_MASK){
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                    break;
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                    if (getCurrentItem()==0 && x>mStartDragX) {
                        onSwipeOutAtStart();
                    }
                    if (getCurrentItem()==getAdapter().getCount()-1 && x<mStartDragX){
                        onSwipeOutAtEnd();
                    }
                    break;
            }
        }else{
            mStartDragX=0;
        }
        return super.onTouchEvent(ev);

    }

    public interface OnSwipeOutListener {
        void onSwipeOutAtStart();
        void onSwipeOutAtEnd();
    }
}

Answer 5

The answer from Flávio Faria doesn't work for me. The only event I get in onInterceptTouchEvent() is ACTION_DOWN event. So I override the onTouchEvent() method to get it work.

Here is the code. Note that I only have onSwipeOutAtEnd() in the listener. You can add your code to support swiping left on first vier.

public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager {

float mStartDragX;
OnSwipeOutListener mListener;


public void setOnSwipeOutListener(OnSwipeOutListener listener) {
    mListener = listener;
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){
    if(getCurrentItem()==getAdapter().getCount()-1){
        final int action = ev.getAction();
        float x = ev.getX();
        switch(action & MotionEventCompat.ACTION_MASK){
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            mStartDragX = x;
            break;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
            break;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
            if (x<mStartDragX){
                mListener.onSwipeOutAtEnd();
            }else{
                mStartDragX = 0;
            }
            break;
        }
    }else{
        mStartDragX=0;
    }
    return super.onTouchEvent(ev);
}    
public interface OnSwipeOutListener {
    public void onSwipeOutAtEnd();
}