muxi166 / zoomlayout

A collection of components that support zooming and panning of View hierarchies, images, video streams, and more.

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ZoomLayout & ZoomEngine

Flexible utilities to control and animate zoom and translation of Views and much more - either programmatically or through touch events.

implementation 'com.otaliastudios:zoomlayout:1.7.0'

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You can see ZoomLayout in action through our demo app, or if you're curious, in ViewPrinter, a printing library heavily based on this.

Features

• ZoomLayout : a container that supports 2D pan and zoom to a View hierarchy, even supporting clicks.
• ZoomImageView : (yet another) ImageView that supports 2D pan and zoom.
• ZoomSurfaceView : A SurfaceView that supports 2D pan and zoom with OpenGL rendering (API 18).
• Lightweight, no dependencies
• API 16

In fact, ZoomLayout, ZoomImageView and ZoomSurfaceView are just very simple implementations of the internal ZoomEngine. The zoom engine lets you animate everything through constant updates, as long as you feed it with touch events, with a Matrix-based mechanism that makes it very flexible.

ZoomLayout

A container for view hierarchies that can be panned or zoomed.

<com.otaliastudios.zoom.ZoomLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical|horizontal"   
    app:transformation="centerInside"                                
    app:transformationGravity="auto"
    app:alignment="center"
    app:overScrollHorizontal="true"
    app:overScrollVertical="true"
    app:overPinchable="true"
    app:horizontalPanEnabled="true"
    app:verticalPanEnabled="true"
    app:zoomEnabled="true"
    app:flingEnabled="true"
    app:scrollEnabled="true"
    app:oneFingerScrollEnabled="true"
    app:twoFingersScrollEnabled="true"
    app:threeFingersScrollEnabled="true"
    app:minZoom="0.7"
    app:minZoomType="zoom"
    app:maxZoom="2.5"
    app:maxZoomType="zoom"
    app:animationDuration="280"
    app:hasClickableChildren="false">

    <!-- Content here. -->

</com.otaliastudios.zoom.ZoomLayout>

Children

ZoomLayout supports only a single child, but that child can have as many children as you wish. If any of these children is clickable or should react to touch events, you are required to set hasClickableChildren to true. This is off by default because it is more expensive in terms of performance.

The child view will be measured as wrap content with no limits in space, as in a 2D scroll view. So it can be as big as you want.

APIs

The zoom layout will forward all API calls to the internal engine. See engine docs. You can also get the backing engine using zoomLayout.getEngine().

zoomLayout.panTo(x, y, true); // Shorthand for zoomLayout.getEngine().panTo(x, y, true)
zoomLayout.panBy(deltaX, deltaY, true);
zoomLayout.zoomTo(zoom, true);
zoomLayout.zoomBy(factor, true);
zoomLayout.realZoomTo(realZoom, true);
zoomLayout.moveTo(zoom, x, y, true);

ZoomImageView

An ImageView implementation to control pan and zoom over its Drawable or Bitmap.

<com.otaliastudios.zoom.ZoomImageView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical|horizontal"  
    app:transformation="centerInside"    
    app:transformationGravity="auto"  
    app:alignment="center"                                                                                                                        
    app:overScrollHorizontal="true"
    app:overScrollVertical="true"
    app:overPinchable="true"
    app:horizontalPanEnabled="true"
    app:verticalPanEnabled="true"
    app:zoomEnabled="true"
    app:flingEnabled="true"
    app:scrollEnabled="true"
    app:oneFingerScrollEnabled="true"
    app:twoFingersScrollEnabled="true"
    app:threeFingersScrollEnabled="true"
    app:minZoom="0.7"
    app:minZoomType="zoom"
    app:maxZoom="2.5"
    app:maxZoomType="zoom"
    app:animationDuration="280"/>

There is nothing surprising going on. Just call setImageDrawable() and you are done.

Presumably ZoomImageView won't work if:

• the drawable has no intrinsic dimensions (like a ColorDrawable)
• the view has wrap_content as a dimension
• you change the scaleType (read later to know more)

There are lots of libraries on this topic and this is not necessarily better, yet it is a natural implementations of the zoom engine. It is fast, lightweight and simple.

APIs

The zoom image view will forward all API calls to the internal engine. See engine docs. You can also get the backing engine using zoomImageView.getEngine().

zoomImageView.panTo(x, y, true); // Shorthand for zoomImageView.getEngine().panTo(x, y, true)
zoomImageView.panBy(deltaX, deltaY, true);
zoomImageView.zoomTo(zoom, true);
zoomImageView.zoomBy(factor, true);
zoomImageView.realZoomTo(realZoom, true);
zoomImageView.moveTo(zoom, x, y, true);

ZoomSurfaceView

A SurfaceView implementation (extending GLSurfaceView) that supports panning and zooming of its contents through OpenGL rendering. You can use this for video streaming, camera previews or any other surface application that streams image buffers into a Surface.

<com.otaliastudios.zoom.ZoomSurfaceView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:transformation="centerInside"
    app:transformationGravity="auto"
    app:alignment="center"
    app:overScrollHorizontal="false"
    app:overScrollVertical="false"
    app:overPinchable="false"
    app:horizontalPanEnabled="true"
    app:verticalPanEnabled="true"
    app:zoomEnabled="true"
    app:flingEnabled="true"
    app:scrollEnabled="true"
    app:oneFingerScrollEnabled="true"
    app:twoFingersScrollEnabled="true"
    app:threeFingersScrollEnabled="true"
    app:minZoom="1"
    app:minZoomType="zoom"
    app:maxZoom="2.5"
    app:maxZoomType="zoom"
    app:animationDuration="280"/>

Setup

There are a few special things about ZoomSurfaceView with respect to the other classes:

• It requires API level 18
• It will not draw scrollbars
• You must either call ZoomSurfaceView.setContentSize() passing the stream size, or measure the view so that it matches the stream aspect ratio.

To use ZoomSurfaceView you must add the Egloo library to your dependencies or the view will crash. You should also use the exact version that this library is expecting.

implementation 'com.otaliastudios.opengl:egloo:0.2.3'

Usage

Using Surfaces is not a simple topic so we won't go into details here. Please take a look at the demo app which reproduces a zoomable/pannable video through ExoPlayer.

To get a usable Surface out of ZoomSurfaceView, please add a callback and wait for the surface to be available:

ZoomSurfaceView surfaceView = findViewById(R.id.zoom_surface_view);
surfaceView.addCallback(new ZoomSurfaceView.Callback() {
    @Override
    public void onZoomSurfaceCreated(@NotNull ZoomSurfaceView view) {
        Surface surface = view.getSurface();
        // Use this surface for video players, camera preview, ...
    }

    @Override
    public void onZoomSurfaceDestroyed(@NotNull ZoomSurfaceView view) { }
});

APIs

The ZoomSurfaceView will forward all API calls to the internal engine. See engine docs. You can also get the backing engine using zoomSurfaceView.getEngine().

zoomSurfaceView.panTo(x, y, true); // Shorthand for zoomSurfaceView.getEngine().panTo(x, y, true)
zoomSurfaceView.panBy(deltaX, deltaY, true);
zoomSurfaceView.zoomTo(zoom, true);
zoomSurfaceView.zoomBy(factor, true);
zoomSurfaceView.realZoomTo(realZoom, true);
zoomSurfaceView.moveTo(zoom, x, y, true);

ZoomEngine

The low-level engine offers a Matrix-based stream of updates, as long as it is fed with touch events and knows the dimensions of your content.

There is no strict limit over what you can do with a Matrix,

• move Canvas objects around
• transform View hierarchies
• apply to ImageViews or Bitmap
• transform MotionEvents
• probably more

Zoom

Transformation

The transformation defines the engine resting position. It is a keyframe that is reached at certain points, like at start-up or when explicitly requested through setContentSize or setContainerSize.

The keyframe is defined by two elements:

• a transformation value (modifies zoom in a certain way)
• a transformationGravity value (modifies pan in a certain way)

which can be controlled through setTransformation(int, int) or app:transformation and app:transformationGravity.

Transformation	Description
centerInside	The content is scaled down or up so that it fits completely inside the view bounds.
centerCrop	The content is scaled down or up so that its smaller side fits exactly inside the view bounds. The larger side will be cropped.
none	No transformation is applied.

After transformation is applied, the transformation gravity will reposition the content with the specified value. Supported values are most of the android.view.Gravity flags like Gravity.TOP, plus TRANSFORMATION_GRAVITY_AUTO.

Transformation Gravity	Description
top, ...	The content is panned so that its top side matches teh container top side. Same for other values.
auto (default)	The transformation gravity is taken from the engine alignment, defaults to center on both axes.

Note: after transformation and gravity are applied, the engine will apply - as always - all the active constraints, including minZoom, maxZoom, alignment. This means that the final position might be slightly (or completely) different.

For example, when maxZoom == 1, the content is forced to not be any larger than the container. This means that a centerCrop transformation will not have the desired effect: it will act just like a centerInside.

Alignment

You can force the content position with respect to the container using the setAlignment(int) method or the alignment XML flag of ZoomLayout and ZoomImageView. The default value is Alignment.CENTER which will center the content on both directions.

Note: alignment does not make sense when content is larger than the container, because forcing an alignment (e.g. left) would mean making part of the content unreachable (e.g. the right part).

Alignment	Description
top, bottom, left, right	Force align the content to the same side of the container.
center_horizontal, center_vertical	Force the content to be centered inside the container on that axis.
none_horizontal, none_vertical	No alignment set: content is free to be moved on that axis.

You can use the or operation to mix the vertical and horizontal flags:

engine.setAlignment(Alignment.TOP or Alignment.LEFT)
engine.setAlignment(Alignment.TOP) // Equals to Aligment.TOP or Alignment.NONE_HORIZONTAL
engine.setAlignment(Alignment.NONE) // Remove any forced alignment

Zoom Types

The base transformation makes the difference between zoom and realZoom. Since we have silently applied a base zoom to the content, we must introduce two separate types:

Zoom type	Value	Description
Zoom	TYPE_ZOOM	The scale value after the initial transformation. zoom == 1 means that the content was untouched after the transformation.
Real zoom	TYPE_REAL_ZOOM	The actual scale value, including the initial transformation. realZoom == 1 means that the 1 inch of the content fits 1 inch of the screen.

To make things clearer, when transformation is none, the zoom and the real zoom will be identical. The distinction is very useful when it comes to imposing min and max constraints to our zoom value.

Note that these values will change if the setContentSize or setContainerSize APIs are used with applyTransformation = true.

APIs

Some of the zoom APIs will let you pass an integer (either TYPE_ZOOM or TYPE_REAL_ZOOM) to define the zoom type you are referencing to. Depending on the context, imposing restrictions on one type will make more sense than the other - e. g., in a PDF viewer, you might want to cap real zoom at 1.

API	Description	Default value
getZoom()	Returns the current zoom, not taking into account the base scale.	1
getRealZoom()	Returns the current zoom taking into account the base scale. This is the matrix scale.	-
setMinZoom(float, @ZoomType int)	Sets the lower bound when pinching out.	0.8, TYPE_ZOOM
setMaxZoom(float, @ZoomType int)	Sets the upper bound when pinching in.	2.5, TYPE_REAL_ZOOM
setOverPinchable(boolean)	If true, the content will be allowed to zoom outside its bounds, then return to its position.	true
realZoomTo(float, boolean)	Moves the real zoom to the given value, animating if needed.	-
zoomTo(float, boolean)	Moves the zoom to the given value, animating if needed.	-
zoomBy(float, boolean)	Applies the given factor to the current zoom, animating if needed. OK for both types.	-
zoomIn()	Applies a small, animated zoom-in.	-
zoomOut()	Applies a small, animated zoom-out.	-
setZoomEnabled(boolean)	If true, the content will be allowed to zoom in and out by user input.	true

The moveTo(float, float, float, boolean) API will let you animate both zoom and pan at the same time.

Pan

All pan APIs accept x and y coordinates. These refer to the top-left visible pixel of the content.

• If using ZoomLayout, the coordinate system is that of the inner view
• If using ZoomImageView, the coordinate system is that of the drawable intrinsic width and height
• If using ZoomSurfaceView, the coordinate system is that of the view dimensions
• If using the engine directly, the coordinate system is that of the rect starting at (0f, 0f) and having the size you passed in setContentSize

In any case the current scale is not considered, so your system won't change if zoom changes.

API	Description	Default value
getPan()	Returns the current pan as a point.	-
getPanX()	Returns the current horizontal pan.	-
getPanY()	Returns the current vertical pan.	-
getScaledPan()	Returns the current scaled pan as a point (pan * realZoom).	-
getScaledPanX()	Returns the current scaled horizontal pan (panX * realZoom).	-
getScaledPanY()	Returns the current scaled vertical pan (panY * realZoom).	-
setOverScrollHorizontal(boolean)	If true, the content will be allowed to pan outside its horizontal bounds, then return to its position.	true
setOverScrollVertical(boolean)	If true, the content will be allowed to pan outside its vertical bounds, then return to its position.	true
setHorizontalPanEnabled(boolean)	If true, the content will be allowed to pan horizontally by user input.	true
setVerticalPanEnabled(boolean)	If true, the content will be allowed to pan vertically by user input.	true
setFlingEnabled(boolean)	If true, fling gestures will be detected.	true
setScrollEnabled(boolean)	If true, scroll gestures will be detected.	true
setOneFingerScrollEnabled(boolean)	If true, one finger scroll gestures will be detected.	true
setTwoFingersScrollEnabled(boolean)	If true, two fingers scroll gestures will be detected.	true
setThreeFingersScrollEnabled(boolean)	If true, three fingers scroll gestures will be detected.	true
setAllowFlingInOverscroll(boolean)	If true, fling gestures will be allowed even when detected while overscrolled. This might cause artifacts so it is disabled by default.	false
panTo(float, float, boolean)	Pans to the given values, animating if needed.	-
panBy(float, float, boolean)	Applies the given deltas to the current pan, animating if needed.	-
cancelAnimations()	Cancels all currently active animations triggered by either API calls with animate = true or touch input flings.	-

The moveTo(float, float, float, boolean) API will let you animate both zoom and pan at the same time.

Note: To pan the content of a ZoomLayout to the right you must move it to the left - so depending on the situtation you might need to pass in negative coordinates to panTo or moveTo for the desired outcome.

Direct usage

If you are interested in using the engine directly, I encourage you to take a look at the ZoomLayout or ZoomImageView implementations. It is extremely simple. Basically:

• You construct a ZoomEngine passing the View that acts as a container for your content
• As soon as you know it (and whenever it changes), you pass the content dimensions using setContentSize(float, float)
• As soon as you receive them, you pass touch updates to onInterceptTouchEvent or onTouchEvent
• Any ZoomEngine.Listener subscribed will be passed Matrix updates

API	Description
setContentSize(float, float)	Sets the size of the content, whatever it is.
onTouchEvent(MotionEvent)	Should be called to feed the engine with new events.
onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent)	Should be called to feed the engine with new events.
setContainerSize(float, float)	Updates the container size. This is generally not needed. The engine will get the container dimensions using a OnGlobalLayout listener. However, in some cases, you might want to trigger this directly.

The size methods will also accept a boolean indicating whether the engine should re-apply the transformation. The transformation is always applied if the engine is in its starting state.

Contributions

You are welcome to contribute with suggestions or pull requests. I don't plan to add lots of features (specifically, I don't plan to have ZoomImageView compete with similar libraries that already do this very well), the plan is to keep this lightweight. But I welcome well-thought contributions.