I want to display items in a horizontal list using RecyclerView. At a time, only 3 items will be displayed. 1 in the middle and the other 2 on the side, below is an image of what I'm trying to achieve:
I'm using LinearSnapHelper which centers an item all of the time. When an item is moved away from the center I would like the opacity to progessively change from 1f to 0.5f.
Here is the below code which I've written to help:
class CustomRecyclerView(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet) : RecyclerView(context, attrs) {
private var itemBoundsRect: Rect? = null
init {
itemBoundsRect = Rect()
addOnScrollListener(object : OnScrollListener() {
override fun onScrolled(recyclerView: RecyclerView, dx: Int, dy: Int) {
super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy)
calculateVisibility()
}
})
}
private fun calculateVisibility() {
val linearLayoutManger: LinearLayoutManager = layoutManager as LinearLayoutManager
val firstVisibleItem = linearLayoutManger.findFirstVisibleItemPosition()
val lastVisibleItem = linearLayoutManger.findLastVisibleItemPosition()
var indexes: MutableList<Int> = mutableListOf()
for (i in firstVisibleItem..lastVisibleItem) {
indexes.add(i)
val item: View = layoutManager?.findViewByPosition(i) ?: continue
item.getGlobalVisibleRect(itemBoundsRect)
var itemSize = layoutManager!!.findViewByPosition(i)!!.width
var visibleSize = 0
if (indexes.size == 1) {
visibleSize = itemBoundsRect!!.right
} else {
visibleSize = itemBoundsRect!!.right - itemBoundsRect!!.left
}
var visibilty = visibleSize * 100 / itemSize
if (visibilty > 0) {
visibilty = 100 - visibilty
}
val viewHolder = findViewHolderForLayoutPosition(i)
viewHolder!!.itemView.alpha = (100 - visibilty).toFloat() / 100f
}
}
}
It doesn't work as expected as the opacity changes at the wrong time. The image below demonstrates this better. I expect the opacity to progressively begin to change when the item edges come out of the red box. However, it only starts when the item reaches the yellow edges.
Is there a way to achieve this effect?
Thank you :)

