Android: Why Not use an Image Carousel if you have lots of images to show!
Do you know that creating an image carousel in Android is easier then you think! 😉
Recently in a project, I have to show some images for preview. I am thinking to use an image carousel library to show the images. But the library I found does not make me feel good 😑! They are old or have discontinued/old library dependency 🙄!
So I thought let’s try to make one 😁! Then I checkout the existing libraries source codes and I found that creating a carousel is a two-line code 😲!
Really!
To create a carousel (ViewPager like view) just attach a RecyclerView to a SnapHelper!
That’s it! Try it yourself…
Though you have to create a RecyclerView adapter, design item layout, which consists of ImageView, the ImageView should be fully match_parent in height and width, styling the view, adding indicator, adding navigator, listener……… 😒
For the lazy 😴…
That means to make everything work you have to write more codes. So to save you from that I create an image carousel library, Why Not! Image Carousel!
It’s simple to use and fully customizable.
How to use…
Add repository to the root build.gradle file:
Add dependencies to the module build.gradle file:
Replace X.X.X with the latest version of the library. Check out the latest release version from here.
Finally add the ImageCarousel to your XML layout:
Then add item to the carousel:
That’s all need to create the first carousel view in the following image:
Feeling interesting 🤔? Then check out the details usage from the repository. A Sample project also included here, using both Kotlin and Java 😎.
Repository 👉 https://github.com/ImaginativeShohag/Why-Not-Image-Carousel
Sample 👉 https://github.com/ImaginativeShohag/Why-Not-Image-Carousel/tree/master/sample
Like it? then…
Use it… clone it… fork it… give PRs and finally, give a star to the repository and share it if you like…
