SimpleViewPagerIndicator

SimpleViewPagerIndicator is a small, easy to use class that you can add to your Android projects to graphically display the number of elements in a ViewPager, as well as allow users to quickly switch pages by touching the page indicators.

After checking out some existing libraries for doing similar things, I found that many were overly complicated for what I was trying to accomplish. SimpleViewPagerIndicator is designed to allow developers to specify a simple (hence the name), customisable container in an XML layout file, and add elements (in the case of the screenshot, light bulbs) on the fly. The elements have two states - normal, and highlighted. Changing pages simply changes the image state.

Included in this repository is the SimpleViewPagerIndicator class itself, as well a a sample indicator layout file and a few small images.

Installation

• Add the SimpleViewPagerIndicator class, view_pager_indicator.xml layout file and sample images to your project.

• Import your project's R file in SimpleViewPagerIndicator.

• In your activity's layout file, add:

    <au.com.papercloud.pager.SimpleViewPagerIndicator
        android:id="@+id/page_indicator"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center" />
  

• In your activity that contains a ViewPager, just add:

    SimpleViewPagerIndicator pageIndicator = (SimpleViewPagerIndicator) findViewById(R.id.page_indicator);
    pageIndicator.setViewPager(pager);
  

• Of course, you may also create the indicator in code and add it to your activity's content view.

• Any time the view pager's data is changed, be sure to call

    pageIndicator.notifyDataSetChanged();
  

• Change the layout file and images to your heart's content.

If you intend to add an OnPageChangeListener to your view pager, add it to the SimpleViewPagerIndicator instead.

Notes

This is a simple set of files that I've decided to open source because I thought it'd be useful to someone else. In no way is it guaranteed to be highly optimised nor bug free. If anyone has any suggestions for improvement, please create a pull request.

Licence

This project is licenced under the Apache Licence v2. You may use and change as you wish. No attribution is required.

Developed by Jarrod Robins of Papercloud, 2012, 2013.