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It may take some work to integrate into your own project (I know because I've done it) but look at the solution from the Android source's Camera app in ViewImage.java; they use a scrollable/zoomable touch view that has auto-hiding controls overlaid for zoom and next/previous buttons. There's a lot of extra stuff in there too that needs decoupling before you can use it in your own app, but that's the core idea from a UI standpoint.

It'll also be familiar to your users; if there's no compelling UI reason to surprise your users with an image detail view that does something new, use the same one they're used to from the built-in Camera/Gallery app.

For what it's worth, the 2.1 camera app seems to do away with the next/prev buttons and replaces them with swipe left/right gestures.

Answered by: Audrey341 | Posted: 26-02-2022

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