Make tabs in SlidingTabLayout not slide

Question

I recently made an app using SlidingTabLayout with two tabs. I referred this link

However I had to modify it slightly. I had to add a button which locks the sliding of the tabs. And unlock it when it is clicked again. So I just can't get the tabs to not slide.

I checked out this question Disable swiping between tabs. But he is using some other library to do it and it's no longer supported. I'm using the default one. And in that question the CustomViewPager extends android.support.v4.view.ViewPager. In my project ViewPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter.

Any help would be very useful. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can just make a custom ViewPager which extends the ViewPager and set a method that disables and enables the swiping.

You can do that by adding a class like the one below to your code. Then instead of using ViewPager just use CustomViewPager in your code:

public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager {

    private boolean enabled;

    public CustomViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        this.enabled = true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        if (this.enabled) {
             return super.onTouchEvent(event);
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        if (this.enabled) {
            return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event);
        }
        return false;
    }

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

You can disable/enable swiping by calling: setPagingEnabled(boolean enabled).