How to add swipe functionality on Android CardView?

Question

I have a single CardView that contains two TextViews and two ImageViews. I want to be able to swipe left and right to "dismiss". I actually want swipe right to send an Intent but that can be done later. For now, I want to be able to dismiss the CardView by swiping left or right. I also want the animation of swiping.

I tried using romannurik's SwipeDismissTouchListener but the CardView does not respond to swiping.

If anyone has a better solution than romannurik's custom listener, please share.

Here's my CardView layout:

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@id/generate"
    map:cardCornerRadius="@dimen/_3sdp"
    map:cardElevation="@dimen/_8sdp"
    android:id="@+id/restaurantContainer">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:orientation="vertical">

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/thumbnail"
                    android:layout_width="@dimen/_75sdp"
                    android:layout_height="@dimen/_75sdp"
                    android:layout_margin="@dimen/_5sdp" />

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/rating"
                    android:layout_width="@dimen/_75sdp"
                    android:layout_height="@dimen/_15sdp"
                    android:layout_margin="@dimen/_5sdp" />
            </LinearLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical">

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/name"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_margin="@dimen/_5sdp"
                    android:gravity="top"
                    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/categories"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_margin="@dimen/_5sdp"
                    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
            </LinearLayout>

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent">

            <com.google.android.gms.maps.MapView
                android:id="@+id/mapView"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                map:cameraZoom="14"
                map:liteMode="true"
                map:mapType="normal" />

        </LinearLayout>

    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

How I setup the SwipeDismissTouchListener:

RelativeLayout rootLayout;
CardView restaurantCardView;

...

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        rootLayout = (RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);

        restaurantCardView = (CardView) rootLayout.findViewById(R.id.restaurantContainer);

        restaurantCardView.setOnTouchListener(new SwipeDismissTouchListener(restaurantCardView, null, new SwipeDismissTouchListener.DismissCallbacks() {
            @Override
            public boolean canDismiss(Object token) {
                Log.d("Chris", "canDismiss() called with: " + "token = [" + token + "]");
                return true;
            }

            @Override
            public void onDismiss(View view, Object token) {
                Log.d("Chris", "onDismiss() called with: " + "view = [" + view + "], token = [" + token + "]");
            }
        }));
    ....

    return rootLayout;

I am able to see the log from canDismiss(...) but not from onDismiss(...).

Solution

You'll have to put it inside RecyclerView (and your CardView as the only item there)

Then, use ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback to itemTouchHelper.attachToRecyclerView(recyclerView);

It will give you animations and in

@Override
public void onSwiped(RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, int swipeDir) {
}

you can specify particular action based on the swipe direction.

See full instruction here: Swipe to Dismiss for RecyclerView

Also, you'll have to disable vertical scroll in RecyclerView:

public class UnscrollableLinearLayoutManager extends LinearLayoutManager {
    public UnscrollableLinearLayoutManager(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canScrollVertically() {
        return false;
    }
}

.....

RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recyclerView);
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new UnscrollableLinearLayoutManager(this));
recyclerView.setAdapter(new RestaurantCardAdapter());

Otherwise - once you'll try to scroll up or down - you'd see RecyclerView's end-of-list animations.

Upd:

Here's RecyclerView.Adapter I used for test:

private class RestaurantCardAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter {
    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        return new RestaurantViewHolder(new RestaurantCard(parent.getContext()));
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {}

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return 1;
    }

    private class RestaurantViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        public RestaurantViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
        }
    }
}

RestaurantCard - is just a custom View (extends CardView in our case):

public class RestaurantCard extends CardView {
    public RestaurantCard(Context context) {
        super(context);
        initialize(context);
    }

    public RestaurantCard(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        initialize(context);
    }

    private void initialize(Context context){
        LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.card, this);
        // ImageView imageView = (ImageView)getView.findViewById(...);
    }
}