An amazing card slider for the Android platform with many features and attrs

Card Slider

This is an amazing card slider for the Android platform with many features and attrs to get exactly what you need.

Card Slider components

  1. CardSliderViewPager:
    A custom ViewPager built on RTL ViewPager to support RTL and uses a page transformer to apply scaling action as shown in GIF.
  2. CardSliderIndicator: Custom LinearLayout that that contain indicators as children views.
  3. CardSliderAdapter: Abstract class that must be extended and passed to CardSliderViewPager as its adapter.

Features

1- show preview of pages in left and right.

2- can resize (scale) the pages to make focused page larger in height as shown in GIF.

3- Full customize the appearance of the the CardView and ViewPager.

4- Add indicator and full customize it easily.

5- RTL Support.

Add to project

  1. Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:
allprojects {
		repositories {
			...
			maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}
  1. Add the dependency:
implementation 'com.github.IslamKhSh:CardSlider:{latest_version}'

Find the latest version here

Usage

  1. Add it to your layout:
 <com.github.islamkhsh.CardSliderViewPager
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:id="@+id/viewPager"
           android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
           app:cardSlider_smallScaleFactor="0.9" //scale factor of height of pages in left and right (1 if no resizing nedded)
           app:cardSlider_otherPagesWidth="24dp" // width of displayed parts of left and right pages
           app:cardSlider_pageMargin="12dp" // margin between pages
           app:cardSlider_cardCornerRadius="5dp"/> // corner radius of every page
  1. Extend CardSliderAdapter
class MovieAdapter(movies : ArrayList<Movie>) : CardSliderAdapter<Movie>(movies) {

    override fun bindView(position: Int, itemContentView: View, item: Movie?) {
      //TODO bind item object with item layout view
    }

    override fun getItemContentLayout(position: Int) : Int {
        //TODO return the item layout of every position 
        //This layout will be added as a child of CardView
    }
}

or using Java

public class MovieAdapter extends CardSliderAdapter<Movie> {
    
    public MovieAdapter(ArrayList<Movie> movies){
        super(movies);
    }
    
    @Override
    public void bindView(int position, View itemContentView, Movie item) {
      //TODO bind item object with item layout view
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemContentLayout(int position) {
        //TODO return the item layout of every position 
        //This layout will be added as a child of CardView
    }
}
  1. Create item layout to return it in getItemContentLayout

  2. Add adapter to CardSliderViewPager

  val movies = ArrayList<Movie>().apply{
  // add items to arraylist
  }
  
  findViewById<CardSliderViewPager>(R.id.viewPager).adapter = MoviesAdapter(movies)

or using Java

  ArrayList<Movie> movies = ArrayList<Movie>();
    // add items to arraylist
  
  CardSliderViewPager cardSliderViewPager = (CardSliderViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewPager);
  cardSliderViewPager.setAdapter(MoviesAdapter(movies));

5- To add indicator add it to your layout

 <com.github.islamkhsh.CardSliderIndicator
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/indicator"/>

And then bind it with your CardSliderViewPager

  <com.github.islamkhsh.CardSliderViewPager
            ...
            app:cardSlider_indicator="@id/indicator"/>

Attributes List

1- CardSliderViewPager

Attribute Description Default value
cardSlider_smallScaleFactor The small scale of the next and previous pages. 1 (no resizing)
cardSlider_baseShadow The CardView Elevation when selected. 2dp
cardSlider_minShadow The CardView Elevation of next and previous cards. baseShadow * smallScaleFactor
cardSlider_pageMargin The space between two pages. This must be large than baseShadow + minShadow or it will be override. baseShadow + minShadow
cardSlider_otherPagesWidth The width of displayed parts from next and previous cards . 0
cardSlider_cardBackgroundColor The background color of the card. White
cardSlider_cardCornerRadius The corner radius of the card view. 0
cardSlider_indicator The id of CardSliderIndicator to work with this view pager. no indicator

paddingLeft and right will be override with otherPagesWidth + pageMargin

2- CardSliderIndicator

Attribute Description Default value
default_indicator The indicator drawable in case of not selected default_dot.xml
selected_indicator The indicator drawable in case of selected. selected_dot.xml
indicator_margin The space between indicators the minimum width of default_indicator and selected_indicator

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