Can ViewPager have multiple views in per page?

Question

After trying out the Gallery and Horizontal Scroll View, I found that the View Pager does what I need but with one minor thing missing. Can the View Pager have multiple views per page?

I know that View Pager shows only 1 view/page per swipe. I was wondering if I can limit my views width so my 2nd view following it will show?

For example: I have 3 views and I want the screen to show view 1 and part of view 2 so the user knows there is more content so they can swipe to view 2.

|view 1|view 2|view 3| |screen   | 

Answer 1

I discovered that a perhaps even simpler solution through specifying a negative margin for the ViewPager. I've created the MultiViewPager project on GitHub, which you may want to take a look at:

https://github.com/Pixplicity/MultiViewPager

Although MultiViewPager expects a child view for specifying the dimension, the principle revolves around setting the page margin:

ViewPager.setPageMargin(     getResources().getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.viewpager_margin)); 

I then specified this dimension in my dimens.xml:

<dimen name="viewpager_margin">-64dp</dimen> 

To compensate for overlapping pages, each page's content view has the opposite margin:

android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/viewpager_margin_fix" android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/viewpager_margin_fix" 

Again in dimens.xml:

<dimen name="viewpager_margin_fix">32dp</dimen> 

(Note that the viewpager_margin_fix dimension is half that of the absolute viewpager_margin dimension.)

We implemented this in the Dutch newspaper app De Telegraaf Krant: