Is it possible to disable scrolling on a ViewPager

Question

A simple solution is to create your own subclass of ViewPager that has a private boolean flag, isPagingEnabled. Then override the onTouchEvent and onInterceptTouchEvent methods. If isPagingEnabled equals true invoke the super method, otherwise return.

public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager {

    private boolean isPagingEnabled = true;

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

    public CustomViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        return this.isPagingEnabled && super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        return this.isPagingEnabled && super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event);
    }

    public void setPagingEnabled(boolean b) {
        this.isPagingEnabled = b;
    }
}

Then in your Layout.XML file replace any <com.android.support.V4.ViewPager> tags with <com.yourpackage.CustomViewPager> tags.

This code was adapted from this blog post.

There is an easy fix for this one:

When you want to disable the viewpager scrolling then:

mViewPager.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

   public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent arg1) {
      return true;
   }
}); 

And when you want to re-enable it then:

mViewPager.setOnTouchListener(null);

That will do the trick.

Here is my light weight variant of slayton's answer:

public class DeactivatableViewPager extends ViewPager {
    public DeactivatableViewPager(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public DeactivatableViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        return !isEnabled() || super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        return isEnabled() && super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event);
    }
}

With my code you can disable the paging with setEnable().

I found a simple solution.

//disable swiping
mViewPager.beginFakeDrag();

//enable swiping
mViewPager.endFakeDrag();

I suggest another way to solve to this problem. The idea is wrapping your viewPager by a scrollView, so that when this scrollView is non-scrollable, your viewPager is non-scrollable too.

Here is my XML layout:

        <HorizontalScrollView
            android:id="@+id/horizontalScrollView"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:fillViewport="true" >

            <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
                android:id="@+id/viewPager"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="match_parent" />

        </HorizontalScrollView>

No code needed.

Works fine for me.