How to create image slider gallery with indicators left to right animation with multiple images.

Automatic image slider gallery with swipeable image view looks awesome on android mobile screen and gives a quick overview of your application by showing multiple images one by one. Displaying images on screen is the easiest way to describe your app so its user can know what your application actually used for. Now here comes the most important part after finding a lot on internet finally i have found an GitHub library named as AndroidImageSlider with such an amazing functionality which gives its user to create image slider with both static and dynamic images and here dynamic images means you can describe the image URL into HashMap and it will automatically parse them and set into image slider. So here is the complete step by step tutorial for Android Multiple Auto Image Slider Example Tutorial using Online URL .

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Note :  Please follow the below steps very carefully in order to AndroidImageSlider library in your android application project :

1. Open your project’s build.gradle ( Module : app ) file.

2. Please add below code inside your build.gradle ( Module : app ) file.

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1'
compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.3.2'
compile 'com.nineoldandroids:library:2.4.0'
compile 'com.daimajia.slider:library:[email protected]'

3. Screenshot of build.gradle ( Module : app ) file after adding above code.

Here your go friends….Now We are going start coding

Please add Internet permission and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to your AndroidManifest.xml file.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

Android Multiple Auto Image Slider Example Tutorial using Online URL.

Code for MainActivity.java file.

package com.android_examples.autoimageslider_android_examplescom;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;
import com.daimajia.slider.library.Animations.DescriptionAnimation;
import com.daimajia.slider.library.SliderLayout;
import com.daimajia.slider.library.SliderTypes.BaseSliderView;
import com.daimajia.slider.library.SliderTypes.TextSliderView;
import com.daimajia.slider.library.Tricks.ViewPagerEx;
import java.util.HashMap;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements BaseSliderView.OnSliderClickListener, ViewPagerEx.OnPageChangeListener{

    SliderLayout sliderLayout;
    HashMap<String,String> Hash_file_maps ;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        Hash_file_maps = new HashMap<String, String>();

        sliderLayout = (SliderLayout)findViewById(R.id.slider);

        Hash_file_maps.put("Android CupCake", "http://androidblog.esy.es/images/cupcake-1.png");
        Hash_file_maps.put("Android Donut", "http://androidblog.esy.es/images/donut-2.png");
        Hash_file_maps.put("Android Eclair", "http://androidblog.esy.es/images/eclair-3.png");
        Hash_file_maps.put("Android Froyo", "http://androidblog.esy.es/images/froyo-4.png");
        Hash_file_maps.put("Android GingerBread", "http://androidblog.esy.es/images/gingerbread-5.png");

        for(String name : Hash_file_maps.keySet()){

            TextSliderView textSliderView = new TextSliderView(MainActivity.this);
            textSliderView
                    .description(name)
                    .image(Hash_file_maps.get(name))
                    .setScaleType(BaseSliderView.ScaleType.Fit)
                    .setOnSliderClickListener(this);
            textSliderView.bundle(new Bundle());
            textSliderView.getBundle()
                    .putString("extra",name);
            sliderLayout.addSlider(textSliderView);
        }
        sliderLayout.setPresetTransformer(SliderLayout.Transformer.Accordion);
        sliderLayout.setPresetIndicator(SliderLayout.PresetIndicators.Center_Bottom);
        sliderLayout.setCustomAnimation(new DescriptionAnimation());
        sliderLayout.setDuration(3000);
        sliderLayout.addOnPageChangeListener(this);
    }
    @Override
    protected void onStop() {

        sliderLayout.stopAutoCycle();

        super.onStop();
    }

    @Override
    public void onSliderClick(BaseSliderView slider) {

        Toast.makeText(this,slider.getBundle().get("extra") + "",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {}

    @Override
    public void onPageSelected(int position) {

        Log.d("Slider Demo", "Page Changed: " + position);
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {}
}

Code for activity_main.xml layout file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/activity_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.android_examples.autoimageslider_android_examplescom.MainActivity">


    <com.daimajia.slider.library.SliderLayout
        android:id="@+id/slider"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="320dp"
        />

</RelativeLayout>

Code for AndroidManifest.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.android_examples.autoimageslider_android_examplescom">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>