Slowing speed of Viewpager controller in android

I've started with HighFlyer's code which indeed changed the mScroller field (which is a great start) but didn't help extend the duration of the scroll because ViewPager explicitly passes the duration to the mScroller when requesting to scroll.

Extending ViewPager didn't work as the important method (smoothScrollTo) can't be overridden.

I ended up fixing this by extending Scroller with this code:

public class FixedSpeedScroller extends Scroller {

    private int mDuration = 5000;

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

    public FixedSpeedScroller(Context context, Interpolator interpolator) {
        super(context, interpolator);
    }

    public FixedSpeedScroller(Context context, Interpolator interpolator, boolean flywheel) {
        super(context, interpolator, flywheel);
    }


    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy, int duration) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, mDuration);
    }

    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy) {
        // Ignore received duration, use fixed one instead
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, mDuration);
    }
}

And using it like this:

try {
    Field mScroller;
    mScroller = ViewPager.class.getDeclaredField("mScroller");
    mScroller.setAccessible(true); 
    FixedSpeedScroller scroller = new FixedSpeedScroller(mPager.getContext(), sInterpolator);
    // scroller.setFixedDuration(5000);
    mScroller.set(mPager, scroller);
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
}

I've basically hardcoded the duration to 5 seconds and made my ViewPager use it.

Hope this helps.

I've wanted to do myself and have achieved a solution (using reflection, however). It's similar to the accepted solution but uses the same interpolator and only changes the duration based on a factor. You need to use a ViewPagerCustomDuration in your XML instead of ViewPager, and then you can do this:

ViewPagerCustomDuration vp = (ViewPagerCustomDuration) findViewById(R.id.myPager);
vp.setScrollDurationFactor(2); // make the animation twice as slow

ViewPagerCustomDuration.java:

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.animation.Interpolator;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public class ViewPagerCustomDuration extends ViewPager {

    public ViewPagerCustomDuration(Context context) {
        super(context);
        postInitViewPager();
    }

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

    private ScrollerCustomDuration mScroller = null;

    /**
     * Override the Scroller instance with our own class so we can change the
     * duration
     */
    private void postInitViewPager() {
        try {
            Class<?> viewpager = ViewPager.class;
            Field scroller = viewpager.getDeclaredField("mScroller");
            scroller.setAccessible(true);
            Field interpolator = viewpager.getDeclaredField("sInterpolator");
            interpolator.setAccessible(true);

            mScroller = new ScrollerCustomDuration(getContext(),
                    (Interpolator) interpolator.get(null));
            scroller.set(this, mScroller);
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }

    /**
     * Set the factor by which the duration will change
     */
    public void setScrollDurationFactor(double scrollFactor) {
        mScroller.setScrollDurationFactor(scrollFactor);
    }

}

ScrollerCustomDuration.java:

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.animation.Interpolator;
import android.widget.Scroller;

public class ScrollerCustomDuration extends Scroller {

    private double mScrollFactor = 1;

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

    public ScrollerCustomDuration(Context context, Interpolator interpolator) {
        super(context, interpolator);
    }

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public ScrollerCustomDuration(Context context, Interpolator interpolator, boolean flywheel) {
        super(context, interpolator, flywheel);
    }

    /**
     * Set the factor by which the duration will change
     */
    public void setScrollDurationFactor(double scrollFactor) {
        mScrollFactor = scrollFactor;
    }

    @Override
    public void startScroll(int startX, int startY, int dx, int dy, int duration) {
        super.startScroll(startX, startY, dx, dy, (int) (duration * mScrollFactor));
    }

}

Hope this helps someone!

I have found better solution, based on @df778899's answer and the Android ValueAnimator API. It works fine without reflection and is very flexible. Also there is no need for making custom ViewPager and putting it into android.support.v4.view package. Here is an example:

private void animatePagerTransition(final boolean forward) {

    ValueAnimator animator = ValueAnimator.ofInt(0, viewPager.getWidth() - ( forward ? viewPager.getPaddingLeft() : viewPager.getPaddingRight() ));
    animator.addListener(new Animator.AnimatorListener() {
        @Override
        public void onAnimationStart(Animator animation) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
            viewPager.endFakeDrag();
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationCancel(Animator animation) {
            viewPager.endFakeDrag();
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationRepeat(Animator animation) {
        }
    });

    animator.setInterpolator(new AccelerateInterpolator());
    animator.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {

        private int oldDragPosition = 0;

        @Override
        public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
            int dragPosition = (Integer) animation.getAnimatedValue();
            int dragOffset = dragPosition - oldDragPosition;
            oldDragPosition = dragPosition;
            viewPager.fakeDragBy(dragOffset * (forward ? -1 : 1));
        }
    });

    animator.setDuration(AppConstants.PAGER_TRANSITION_DURATION_MS);
    viewPager.beginFakeDrag();
    animator.start();
}