Creating a slideshow with ViewPager

This recipe will show you how to create a slideshow using the ViewPager class. Here is a screenshot showing a transition from one picture to another:

Getting ready

Create a new project in Android Studio and call it SlideShow. Use the default Phone & Tablet options and select Empty Activity when prompted for the Activity Type.

We need four images for the slideshow.

How to do it...

We'll create a Fragment to display each image for our slideshow, then set up ViewPager in the Main Activity. Here are the steps:

1. Copy four images to the /res/drawable folder and name them slide_0 through slide_3, keeping the original file extensions.
2. Create a new layout file called fragment_slide.xml using the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <android.support.v7.widget...