visual indication of over scroll in android

Question

I am trying to add some visual indication, that there are no more pages in the desired fling direction in the ViewPager. However I am struggling to find a place, where to put relevant code.

I have tried extending ViewPager class with following code, but the Toast is not displaying (ev.getOrientation() returns always 0). I have also tried the same with history points, but ev.getHistorySize() returns also 0.

What am I missing?

Class example:

public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager {

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

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

    /**
     * @see android.support.v4.view.ViewPager#onTouchEvent(android.view.MotionEvent)
     */
    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        boolean result = super.onTouchEvent(ev);

        switch (ev.getAction() & MotionEventCompat.ACTION_MASK) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                if (ev.getOrientation() > 0) {
                    Toast.makeText(getContext(), "left", 0).show();
                }
        }

        return result;
    }
}

Answer 1

If you look at the v4 support library you will see there's a class used by ViewPager called EdgeEffectCompat (this provides the glow effect when you reach the beginning or end of a view pager in ICS+) If you look at the implementation in the compat library you will see that it has an if-statement to see if the build version is 14+ (ICS) or not. If it is, then it ends up eventually (if you trace long enough) using the normal EdgeEffect class that was inroduced in ICS. Otherwise it uses BaseEdgeEffectImpl which basically has nothing in it.

If you want, you can make your own custom ViewPager that uses EdgeEffect of your own. You can look at the android source code to see how they implemented EdgeEffect here which you can pretty much copy (just make sure to copy the overscroll_edge and overscroll_glow drawables in the AOSP /res/drawable directories to your own project since they are internal to android) or go ahead and create your own version.

Good luck.

(By the way, that's how they create the cool looking edge tilt effect in the launcher menu on ICS... so you can pretty much be as creative as you want with this ;)