Slowing speed of Viewpager controller in android

I’ve started with HighFlyer’s code which indeed changed the mScroller field (which is a great start) but didn’t help extend the duration of the scroll because ViewPager explicitly passes the duration to the mScroller when requesting to scroll.

Extending ViewPager didn’t work as the important method (smoothScrollTo) can’t be overridden.

I ended up fixing this by extending Scroller with this code:

public class FixedSpeedScroller extends Scroller {

    private int mDuration = 5000;

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

    public FixedSpeedScroller(Context context, Interpolator interpolator) {
        super(context, interpolator);
    }

    public FixedSpeedScroller(Context context, Interpolator interpolator, boolean flywheel) {
        super(context, interpolator, flywheel);
    }


    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy, int duration) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, mDuration);
    }

    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, mDuration);
    }
}

And using it like this:

try {
    Field mScroller;
    mScroller = ViewPager.class.getDeclaredField("mScroller");
    mScroller.setAccessible(true); 
    FixedSpeedScroller scroller = new FixedSpeedScroller(mPager.getContext(), sInterpolator);
    // scroller.setFixedDuration(5000);
    mScroller.set(mPager, scroller);
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
}

I’ve basically hardcoded the duration to 5 seconds and made my ViewPager use it.

Hope this helps.