Building an image gallery/slider app
Create a new project in Android Studio called Image Pager
. Use the Empty Activity template and leave the remainder of the settings at their defaults.
These images are located in the download bundle in the Chapter25/Image Pager/drawable
folder. The following diagram shows them in Windows Explorer:
Add the images to the drawable
folder in the project explorer or, of course, you could add more interesting images, perhaps some photos you have taken.
Implementing the layout
For a simple image paging app, we use the PagerAdapter
class. We can think of this as being like RecyclerApater
but for images, as it will handle ...
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