android - Do not clip ViewPager pages

Question

I can't get my ViewPager not clipping its pages contents.

I'm currently using ViewPager with a FragmentStatePagerAdapter in my application. I have 3 pages, each page is showing a different fragment. Everything works fine, but now I want to be able to draw outside of my pages bounds, like in this image:

I set clipChildren and clipToPadding to false in my all views parents to the views that needs to draw outside their bounds, but here's what I get : my views get clipped according to pages bounds.

Some additional info : In order to fix that issue, I used hierarchyviewer to check my view hierarchy and see if some "under the hood" views could have a clipping behaviour. And bingo : each of my fragments' root views is added under a NoSaveStateFrameLayout. I suspect this guy to clip its children...

Is my last assumption correct in your opinion? How would you do to get unclipped pages?

Answer 1

There are a few different Views that require disabled clipping. First, the FrameLayout that is at the root of the ViewPager needs to have clipping disabled. You can do this wherever you initialize your view pager. You also need to set the off-screen page limit to 2 to allow for an extra fragment to be loaded during a swipe. Without this, you'll see a pop going from 1->2 as 3 loads and adds it's overflow content to 2 once 2 has finished loading (this loads both 2 and 3 ahead of time).

mViewPager.setClipChildren(false);
mViewPager.setClipToPadding(false);
mViewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(2);

Second, the XML you inflate in your FragmentStatePagerAdapter needs to include the appropriate tags or it can be done programmatically. Last, you need to force the NoSaveStateFrameLayout to not clip as well. This can be done after the view has been created in onViewCreated. Here's an example fragment:

public static class PlaceholderFragment extends Fragment {

    public static PlaceholderFragment newInstance() {
        PlaceholderFragment fragment = new PlaceholderFragment();
        return fragment;
    }

    public PlaceholderFragment() {
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        LinearLayout rootView = (LinearLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);
        //This can be done in XML
        rootView.setClipChildren(false);
        rootView.setClipToPadding(false);
        return rootView;
    }

    @Override
    public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);

        //This is the NoSaveStateFrameLayout - force it to not clip
        FrameLayout frameLayout = (FrameLayout) getView();
        frameLayout.setClipChildren(false);
        frameLayout.setClipToPadding(false);
    }
}

I have tested this solution and am certain it works.

Full activity example: https://gist.github.com/grantamos/d664f01a30f9ad97ba53