Question

I’m new to Android programming and I’m working on my first application “FunFacts” where
there should be more than 100 cool things to learn about nature, science etc.
My question is: How can I switch from one page to another using two buttons “left” and “right”? which method should I use? I don’t think that a horizontal scrollview is the solution.

So if I have 2 different layouts, page one and page two, how can I switch from one to other in my application?

Thank you!

Answer 1

It sounds like you might want a ViewPager. Below is a link to the Android tutorial. This creates a slideshow type effect which sounds like what you’re going for. You said you will have different layouts which this will use one layout but you can customize the content and I would think you would want one so it all looks relatively the same

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Update

No, you don’t have to create 100 layouts or activities. Just one of each. Following will be a link to a post that explains it a little better. That post explains how it is like a listview in that you add the different pages to your view adapter as you would with a list. You can use the same layout for all and just add new data to it (like a list). Probably store them in an ArrayList or possibly a DB if you have that many and want to have a lot of data attached to them. I hope this makes sense and helps a little. I would suggest starting one with just a couple pages to see how it works, following these examples, and if you get stuck then post a more specific question as to what you can’t get to work.

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