 <p>Not sure that got you right, but something similar I've done with:</p> <pre><code>pager.setClipToPadding(false); pager.setPadding(50, 0, 50, 0); </code></pre> <p><strong>UPD.</strong> </p> <p><a href="https://github.com/JakeWharton/ViewPagerIndicator" rel="nofollow">ViewPager indicator</a></p> <p>In order to scale not visible fragments, try to use <strong>setOnPageChangeListener</strong>, and scale <em>position - 1</em> and <em>position + 1</em> fragment's view. <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8785221/retrieve-a-fragment-from-a-viewpager">Here</a> how to take reference on fragment from ViewPager.</p>