I have a tricky problem related to synchronized scrolling of two different views. I've made my own custom grid view widget, which has "sticky" views to the left and top that only in one direction with the grid. Think of a calendar where you have times at the top, dates at the left, and when you scroll horizontally through time, the date view should stay put, and when you scroll vertically through the dates, the time view should stay put.
The grid itself is implemented using a nested horizontal scrollview in a vertical scrollview. The grid is working great, so no problem there. Since the sticky views are not in the actual grid, I have overriden onScrollChanged in the grid scrollviews and programatically call scrollTo on the sticky views when the user scrolls the grid.
That works as expected, except that there is a slight time offset as to when the two different views start scrolling and ends scrolling. It makes sense when you consider that the scrolling likely is executed linearly on the UI thread I suppose..
All the views are scroll views, and I have enabled smooth scrolling and used smoothScrollTo, etc, instead to try to improve this, but it's the same problem nonetheless. The problem is especially noticeable on larger screens, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, whereas it's hardly noticeable on small-medium screen devices.
Any help is appreciated! If there is an easy fix, great..if it means new design (that meets the sticky view usecase above), then so be it.
Code to trigger prog. scroll, same for horizontal
@Override
protected void onScrollChanged(int x, int y, int oldx, int oldy) {
mListener.onScrollY(y);
super.onScrollChanged(x, y, oldx, oldy);
}
// which leads to,
// Handle vertical scroll
public void onScrollY(final int y) {
mCurrentY = y;
mVerticalScroll.smoothScrollTo(0, y);
}
XML layouts below, if that's of any help
The actual grid, which is a horizontal scroll view wrapped in a vertical scroll view and the grid items are added vertically in the nested linearlayout
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< com.....VerticalScrollView
android:id="@+id/gridscroll"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="@id/timescroll"
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/vertscroll"
android:layout_alignTop="@id/vertscroll"
android:layout_marginLeft="2dp" android:scrollbars="none"
android:fadingEdge="none">
< com....HorizScrollView
android:id="@+id/horizscroll"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:scrollbars="none"
android:fadingEdge="none">
< LinearLayout android:id="@+id/grid"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
< /LinearLayout>
< /com.....HorizScrollView>
< /com.....VerticalScrollView>
The horizontal sticky view
< com.....GridTimeScrollView
android:id="@+id/timescroller"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:scrollbars="none"
android:fadingEdge="none">
< LinearLayout android:id="@+id/timelist"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" />
< /com.....GridTimeScrollView>
The vertical sticky view
< com....GridVertListScrollView
android:id="@+id/vertscroller"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:scrollbars="none"
android:fadingEdge="none">
< LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/vertitemlist"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" />
< /com.....GridVertListScrollView>