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Quick question: To implement a horizontal pager (or carousel) on Wear Compose, do I use the ViewPager2 components or the HorizontalPager components (from accompanist)?

Or do you simply make the element larger than the screen width and enable `Modifier.horizontalScroll`?

Horologist has a PagerScreen component that combines Accompanist HorizontalPager with Wear Compose PageIndicator.  You can steal the code or use the component. <https://github.com/google/horologist/blob/450c3da7ed79118d003e5ff1071fbeb339c3268f/compose-layout/src/main/java/com/google/android/horologist/compose/pager/PagerScreen.kt|https://github.com/google/horologist/blob/450c3da7ed79118d003e5ff1071fbeb339c3268f[…]java/com/google/android/horologist/compose/pager/PagerScreen.kt>

pager.mp4

You can ignore the over-engineered lifecycle code in PagerScreen, it's only needed if you have Individual page Screens with no reference to the HorizontalPager state (you are reusing a screen that could be top level) and you want to activate scrolling of ScalingLazyColumn etc.

Actually I do have two screens which would both be considered "top level" that the user will need to navigate between, so I might need the lifecycle cleanup :slightly_smiling_face:

Try out PagerScreen and let me know how you go.