A ViewPager with a parallax header, transforming toolbar and tabs
This is an example of a ViewPager with a header image, a title box, tabs and a fab. Those views make up the expanded toolbar, which tranlate and transform into a compact toolbar on scrolling of the ViewPager. The ViewPager's fragments watch eachother and update their RecyclerViews scroll positions so that when the ViewPager is scrolled, the adjacent RecyclerView is in the correct position.
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqP0todMHnk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCNN7tVDUKc
The way this works is basically by observing the RecyclerView scroll and a bit of math to translate view in the header accordingly. The important variables the math relys on are in the dimens.xml and used throughout layout files and related classes. This makes the whole system seem quite fragile. For example, going into the examples activity_main.xml and manually changing the header_box height without reflecting that change or directly doing so in dimens.xml will most likely cause some strange scroll behavior.
Initially there was an issue when a RecyclerView didn't have enough items to be scrolled to the top of the screen. If ViewPager frag1 was scrolled to the top and then the user scrolled to frag2, the header would jump down to the correct spot. This was solved by giving the adapter a footer which sized itself acording to the difference between the screen height and the total height of all items in the adapter. It seems to work ok, but occasionally the footer will be largely oversized allowing too much scrolling.