CutoutViewIndicator

Introduction: Android indicator for ViewPagers and so forth
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These indicators animate every little touch on your ViewPager.

Want to use a SpinningViewPager instead? Just enable an offset and you're good to go. Need even finer control? Under the hood, CutoutViewIndicator extends LinearLayout; cell styling is done through LayoutParams. You can set individual values dynamically on these params and Android's View save/restore state logic will keep them in order.

You can define each cell directly in your xml file, or add them manually. Note that the Generators shipped with this library only support ImageViews and TextViews. We expect the vast majority of integrations will be satisfied with the default Generator choices.

There is functional support for RecyclerViews in the included mobile app code - check out RecyclerStateProxy for details.

Pictures:

The sample mobile app in use:

An Android device screen, its background a light blue. Near the top 
lies a dark blue ViewPager - just 20 dp below it is a row of narrow
rectangles, all but one of which are dark blue too. One of these
rectangles, however, is orange. As the animated gif plays, we see
the ViewPager page to new views. The orange bar underneath reliably
indicates exactly which page is currently showing, mimicking the
slightest perturbation in the ViewPager

Sample scrolling effect with ClippedImageCellGenerator and
RecyclerView. The RecyclerView scrolls vertically through colored
rectangles, each a child View, each equal in width and height to the
RecyclerView itself. An indicator on the left side mirrors these
movements with a star-shaped indicator. Thanks to the
ClippedImageCellGenerator, the star appears to move under the views,
showing only half of itself when half of the associated cell
is visible.

There's demo source code for mobile under the mobile directory; we're looking to expand compatibility to Android Wear and Android TV too.

Adding to a gradle project:

In your app-level build.gradle: ensure your repository list includes jitpack.io, then add the artifact as a dependency.

repositories {
    maven {
        url "https://jitpack.io"
    }
}
dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.fuzz-productions:CutoutViewIndicator:v0.9.0'
}

Sample code:

Add a view like this to your xml layout.

<com.fuzz.indicator.CutoutViewIndicator
        android:id="@+id/indicator"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/cutoutViewIndicator"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        app:rcv_drawable="@drawable/indicator"
        app:rcv_drawable_unselected="@drawable/indicator_background"
        app:rcv_internal_margin="@dimen/indicator_internal_spacing"
        app:rcv_tools_indicator_count="4"
        />

Note that rcv_drawable and rcv_drawable_unselected default to 0. You won't see the indicator unless rcv_drawable is set to something, so be sure not to forget about it.

You can leave rcv_drawable_unselected equal to 0 if you want a transparent background.

In your Java (or other JVM-compatible language) file, get a reference to the view and set it up with a ViewPager.

ViewPager pager;
pager.setAdapter(adapter);


// Activity
CutoutViewIndicator cvi = (CutoutViewIndicator) findViewById(R.id.indicator);
cvi.setViewPager(pager);
...
// Fragment
CutoutViewIndicator cvi = (CutoutViewIndicator) view.findViewById(R.id.indicator);
cvi.setViewPager(pager);
...
// DataBinding
CutoutViewIndicator cvi = binding.indicator;
cvi.setViewPager(pager);

Then you're good to go. When you're done with the view, it's probably a good idea to de-initialise the CutoutViewIndicator.

cvi.setViewPager(null);

If you want to use something other than simple ImageViews, you can set your own Generator on the object.

cvi.setGenerator(new GifGenerator());

ImageCellGenerator is designed for extensibility - consider subclassing your custom Generator from that if its views extend ImageView.

The base library also ships with an experimental CutoutCellGenerator called TextCellGenerator. Check out the javadoc for details on how to work with it.

License

Copyright 2016-2019 Philip Cohn-Cort and Fuzz Productions

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Caveats

Right now it only supports Android SDK 14 and up (that makes it compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, Lollipop, Marshmallow, and Nougat), but there's little stopping it from being backported all the way to APIv11.

Grab a copy of the demo application (live apk coming soon) to try it in action.

Credit:

This project was inspired by the work of others in the Android community, especially ViewPagerIndicator and AvatarImageView.

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