Turn Layout Manager

A simple carousel for RecyclerView.

Turn-Layout-Manager

Usage

Just create a new TurnLayoutManager using the constructor:

TurnLayoutManager(context,              // provide a context
                  Gravity.START,        // from which direction should the list items orbit? 
                  Orientation.VERTICAL, // Is this a vertical or horizontal scroll?
                  radius,               // The radius of the item rotation
                  peek,                 // Extra offset distance
                  shouldRotate);        // should list items angle towards the center? true/false.

Just like a LinearLayoutManager, a TurnLayoutManager specifies an orientation, either VERTICAL or HORIZONTAL for vertical and horizontal scrolling respectively.

In addition to orientation, supply a Gravity (either START or END). Together, these define the axis of rotation.

Gravity.START
Orientation.VERTICAL

┏─────────┓
┃ x       ┃
┃  x      ┃
┃   x     ┃
┃   x     ┃
┃   x     ┃
┃  x      ┃
┃ x       ┃
┗─────────┛

Gravity.END
Orientation.VERTICAL
┏─────────┓
┃       x ┃
┃      x  ┃
┃     x   ┃
┃     x   ┃
┃     x   ┃
┃      x  ┃
┃       x ┃
┗─────────┛
     

Gravity.START
Orientation.HORIZONTAL
┏─────────┓
┃x       x┃
┃ x     x ┃
┃   xxx   ┃
┃         ┃
┃         ┃
┃         ┃
┃         ┃
┗─────────┛


Gravity.END
Orientation.HORIZONTAL
┏─────────┓
┃         ┃
┃         ┃
┃         ┃
┃         ┃
┃   xxx   ┃
┃ x     x ┃
┃x       x┃
┗─────────┛

Install

Add the JitPack repository to your root build.gradle

	allprojects {
		repositories {
			...
			maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}

Add the dependency to your module's build.gradle

dependencies {
	        compile 'com.github.cdflynn:turn-layout-manager:v1.0'
	}

How It Works

TurnLayoutManager uses the base functionality of LinearLayoutManager with some slight modifications. Child views are positioned normally as LinearLayoutManager does, but they're offset along the rotation radius and peek distance. This involves some trade offs.

Benefits:
  • Automatically supports predictive animations, including mutations to radius and peek distance.
  • Inherits stable support for different scroll directions and therefore can introduce support for Gravity.
  • Does not attempt to re-solve the huge variety of edge cases that LinearLayoutManager already solves, and thus avoids re-introducing those exceptions.
Drawbacks:
  • It's less efficient than a from-scratch implementation of LayoutManager. Specifically, TurnLayoutManager will have a strictly longer layout pass than LinearLayoutManager, and for very heavyweight list rows it may drop a frame that LinearLayoutManager otherwise would not. No matter what layout manager you use, try to keep your item layouts efficient.
  • List items are not forced to adjust their position parallel to the scroll direction, only their perpendicular offset. Items enter and leave the screen a bit faster than they would on a real turning surface, though the effect is subtle.

A full re-implementation of a new LayoutManager could potentially solve those drawbacks.

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