Adding click listener to two buttons in PagerAdpater CardViews

In my project, I have a PagerAdapter to inflate CardViews that hold text objects created by the user.

On each CardView I have edit and delete buttons to access methods to do with the ArrayList holding the text objects.

I have coded an interface in my adapter to handle clicks made within the text object creation activity. However, my instatiateItem method in my adapter is now showing on the @Override annotation "Method does not override method from its superclass". When I remove the @Override annotation I get an error in my Logcat:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Required method instantiateItem was not overridden

How do I implement a click listener for buttons on a CardView in a PagerAdapter?

Adapter code:

public class CreateAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

private List<PdfPage> pagesList;
private LayoutInflater layoutInflater;
private Context context;
private onItemClickListener mListener;

public interface onItemClickListener{
    //click method for edit button
    void onEditClick(int position);
    //click method for delete button
    void onDeleteClick(int position);
}

public void setOnItemClickListener(onItemClickListener listener){
    mListener = listener;
}

public CreateAdapter(List<PdfPage> pagesList, Context context) {
    this.pagesList = pagesList;
    this.context = context;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return pagesList.size();
}

@Override
public boolean isViewFromObject(@NonNull View view, @NonNull Object object) {
    return view.equals(object);
}

@NonNull
@Override
public Object instantiateItem(@NonNull ViewGroup container, final int position, final onItemClickListener listener) {
    layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    View view = null;

    if(pagesList.get(position).getPageType() == "Text") {
        view = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.create_text_cardview, container, false);

        TextView inputText = view.findViewById(R.id.inputTextView);
        ImageButton editButton = view.findViewById(R.id.imageButtonEdit);
        ImageButton deleteButton = view.findViewById(R.id.imageButtonDelete);

        //if this works, see 12:30 of video for image getter
        inputText.setText(pagesList.get(position).getPageText());

        //edit click listener
        editButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (listener != null){
                    int position2 = pagesList.indexOf(pagesList.get(position));
                    listener.onEditClick(position2);
                }
            }
        });

        //delete click listener
        deleteButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (listener != null){
                    int position3 = pagesList.indexOf(pagesList.get(position));
                    listener.onDeleteClick(position3);
                }
            }
        });

        container.addView(view, 0);

    }

    //put else statement here for image cardView

    assert view != null;
    return view;
}

@Override
public void destroyItem(@NonNull ViewGroup container, int position, @NonNull Object object) {
    container.removeView((View)object);
}

Activity code:

public class CreateActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

ViewPager viewPager;
CreateAdapter createAdapter;
List<PdfPage> pdfPageList;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_create);

    pdfPageList = new ArrayList<>();
    
    createAdapter = new CreateAdapter(pdfPageList, this);

    viewPager = findViewById(R.id.viewPager);
    viewPager.setAdapter(createAdapter);
    viewPager.setPadding(130, 0, 130, 0);

}

@Override
protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();

    createAdapter = new CreateAdapter(pdfPageList, this);

    viewPager = findViewById(R.id.viewPager);
    viewPager.setAdapter(createAdapter);
    viewPager.setPadding(130, 0, 130, 0);

    createAdapter.setOnItemClickListener(new CreateAdapter.onItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onEditClick(int position) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onDeleteClick(int position) {
            pdfPageList.remove(position);
        }
    });
}

Your instantiateItem method does not override from it's superclass because you added an extra argument final onItemClickListener listener.

As you are using the same clickListener for all entries and passing the item position as an argument, I suggest that you pass the onItemClickListener in the adapter constructor, or just set it via

public void setOnItemClickListener(onItemClickListener listener){
    mListener = listener;
}

Adapter code:

public class CreateAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

private List<PdfPage> pagesList;
private LayoutInflater layoutInflater;
private Context context;
private onItemClickListener mListener;

public interface onItemClickListener{
    //click method for edit button
    void onEditClick(int position);
    //click method for delete button
    void onDeleteClick(int position);
}

public void setOnItemClickListener(onItemClickListener listener){
    mListener = listener;
}

public CreateAdapter(List<PdfPage> pagesList, Context context) {
    this.pagesList = pagesList;
    this.context = context;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return pagesList.size();
}

@Override
public boolean isViewFromObject(@NonNull View view, @NonNull Object object) {
    return view.equals(object);
}

@NonNull
@Override
public Object instantiateItem(@NonNull ViewGroup container, final int position) {
    layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    View view = null;

    if(pagesList.get(position).getPageType() == "Text") {
        view = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.create_text_cardview, container, false);

        TextView inputText = view.findViewById(R.id.inputTextView);
        ImageButton editButton = view.findViewById(R.id.imageButtonEdit);
        ImageButton deleteButton = view.findViewById(R.id.imageButtonDelete);

        //if this works, see 12:30 of video for image getter
        inputText.setText(pagesList.get(position).getPageText());

        //edit click listener
        editButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (mlistener != null){
                    int position2 = pagesList.indexOf(pagesList.get(position));
                    mlistener.onEditClick(position2);
                }
            }
        });

        //delete click listener
        deleteButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (mlistener != null){
                    int position3 = pagesList.indexOf(pagesList.get(position));
                    mlistener.onDeleteClick(position3);
                }
            }
        });

        container.addView(view, 0);

    }

    //put else statement here for image cardView

    assert view != null;
    return view;
}

@Override
public void destroyItem(@NonNull ViewGroup container, int position, @NonNull Object object) {
    container.removeView((View)object);
}

And your Activity code could stay as it is.