List view snap to item

Question

I'm creating a list of pictures using a ListView and the photos are of a size that would fit 2 to 3 photos on the screen.

The problem that I'm having is that I would like to when the user stops scrolling that the first item of the visible list would snap to the top of screen, for example, if the scroll ends and small part of the first picture displayed, we scroll the list down so the picture is always fully displayed, if mostly of the picture is displayed, we scroll the list up so the next picture is fully visible.

Is there a way to achieve this in android with the listview?

Answer 1

I've found a way to do this just listening to scroll and change the position when the scroll ended by implementing ListView.OnScrollListener

@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
    switch (scrollState) {
    case OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE:
        if (scrolling){
            // get first visible item
            View itemView = view.getChildAt(0);
            int top = Math.abs(itemView.getTop()); // top is a negative value
            int bottom = Math.abs(itemView.getBottom());
            if (top >= bottom){
                ((ListView)view).setSelectionFromTop(view.getFirstVisiblePosition()+1, 0);
            } else {
                ((ListView)view).setSelectionFromTop(view.getFirstVisiblePosition(), 0);
            }
        }
        scrolling = false;
        break;
    case OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_TOUCH_SCROLL:
    case OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_FLING:
        Log.i("TEST", "SCROLLING");
        scrolling = true;
        break;
    }
}

The change is not so smooth but it works.