Is it possible to disable scrolling on a ViewPager

android, android-viewpager

Solution

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.

Problem

I have a `ViewPager` which instantiates a `View`. I'd like to disable both the scrolling of the viewpager and the child buttons momentarily while a search result is returned to the view. I've calling `viewPager.setEnabled(false)` but this doesn't disable it. Anyone got any ideas?

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