I have a listView. When I scroll and stops in a particular place.
How can I get the amount of pixels I scrolled(from top)?
I have tried using get listView.getScrollY(), but it returns 0.
I have a listView. When I scroll and stops in a particular place.
How can I get the amount of pixels I scrolled(from top)?
I have tried using get listView.getScrollY(), but it returns 0.
I had the same problem.
I cannot use View.getScrollY() because it always returns 0 and I cannot use OnScrollListener.onScroll(...) because it works with positions not with pixels. I cannot subclass ListView and override onScrollChanged(...) because its parameter values are always 0. Meh.
All I want to know is the amount the children (i.e. content of listview) got scrolled up or down. So I came up with a solution. I track one of the children (or you can say one of the "rows") and follow its vertical position change.
Here is the code:
public class ObservableListView extends ListView {
public static interface ListViewObserver {
public void onScroll(float deltaY);
}
private ListViewObserver mObserver;
private View mTrackedChild;
private int mTrackedChildPrevPosition;
private int mTrackedChildPrevTop;
public ObservableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
@Override
protected void onScrollChanged(int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt) {
super.onScrollChanged(l, t, oldl, oldt);
if (mTrackedChild == null) {
if (getChildCount() > 0) {
mTrackedChild = getChildInTheMiddle();
mTrackedChildPrevTop = mTrackedChild.getTop();
mTrackedChildPrevPosition = getPositionForView(mTrackedChild);
}
} else {
boolean childIsSafeToTrack = mTrackedChild.getParent() == this && getPositionForView(mTrackedChild) == mTrackedChildPrevPosition;
if (childIsSafeToTrack) {
int top = mTrackedChild.getTop();
if (mObserver != null) {
float deltaY = top - mTrackedChildPrevTop;
mObserver.onScroll(deltaY);
}
mTrackedChildPrevTop = top;
} else {
mTrackedChild = null;
}
}
}
private View getChildInTheMiddle() {
return getChildAt(getChildCount() / 2);
}
public void setObserver(ListViewObserver observer) {
mObserver = observer;
}
}
Couple of notes:
You cant get pixels from top of list (because then you need to layout all views from top of list - there can be a lot of items). But you can get pixels of first visible item: int pixels = listView.getChildAt(0).getTop();
it generally will be zero or negative number - shows difference between top of listView and top of first view in list
edit:
I've improved in this class to avoid some moments that the track was losing due to views being too big and not properly getting a getTop()
This new solution uses 4 tracking points:
that makes sure we always have a isSafeToTrack
equals to true
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AbsListView;
/**
* Created by budius on 16.05.14.
* This improves on Zsolt Safrany answer on stack-overflow (see link)
* by making it a detector that can be attached to any AbsListView.
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8471075/android-listview-find-the-amount-of-pixels-scrolled
*/
public class PixelScrollDetector implements AbsListView.OnScrollListener {
private final PixelScrollListener listener;
private TrackElement[] trackElements = {
new TrackElement(0), // top view, bottom Y
new TrackElement(1), // mid view, bottom Y
new TrackElement(2), // mid view, top Y
new TrackElement(3)};// bottom view, top Y
public PixelScrollDetector(PixelScrollListener listener) {
this.listener = listener;
}
@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
// init the values every time the list is moving
if (scrollState == AbsListView.OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_TOUCH_SCROLL ||
scrollState == AbsListView.OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_FLING) {
for (TrackElement t : trackElements)
t.syncState(view);
}
}
@Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
boolean wasTracked = false;
for (TrackElement t : trackElements) {
if (!wasTracked) {
if (t.isSafeToTrack(view)) {
wasTracked = true;
if (listener != null)
listener.onScroll(view, t.getDeltaY());
t.syncState(view);
} else {
t.reset();
}
} else {
t.syncState(view);
}
}
}
public static interface PixelScrollListener {
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, float deltaY);
}
private static class TrackElement {
private final int position;
private TrackElement(int position) {
this.position = position;
}
void syncState(AbsListView view) {
if (view.getChildCount() > 0) {
trackedChild = getChild(view);
trackedChildPrevTop = getY();
trackedChildPrevPosition = view.getPositionForView(trackedChild);
}
}
void reset() {
trackedChild = null;
}
boolean isSafeToTrack(AbsListView view) {
return (trackedChild != null) &&
(trackedChild.getParent() == view) && (view.getPositionForView(trackedChild) == trackedChildPrevPosition);
}
int getDeltaY() {
return getY() - trackedChildPrevTop;
}
private View getChild(AbsListView view) {
switch (position) {
case 0:
return view.getChildAt(0);
case 1:
case 2:
return view.getChildAt(view.getChildCount() / 2);
case 3:
return view.getChildAt(view.getChildCount() - 1);
default:
return null;
}
}
private int getY() {
if (position <= 1) {
return trackedChild.getBottom();
} else {
return trackedChild.getTop();
}
}
View trackedChild;
int trackedChildPrevPosition;
int trackedChildPrevTop;
}
}
original answer:
First I want to thank @zsolt-safrany for his answer, that was great stuff, total kudos for him.
But then I want to present my improvement on his answer (still is pretty much his answer, just a few improvements)
Improvements:
It's a separate "gesture detector" type of class that can be added to any class that extends AbsListView
by calling .setOnScrollListener()
, so it's a more flexible approach.
It's using the change in scroll state to pre-allocate the tracked child, so it doesn't "waste" one onScroll
pass to allocate its position.
It re-calculate the tracked child on every onScroll
pass to avoiding missing random onScroll pass to recalculate child. (this could be make more efficient by caching some heights and only re-calculate after certain amount of scroll).
hope it helps
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AbsListView;
/**
* Created by budius on 16.05.14.
* This improves on Zsolt Safrany answer on stack-overflow (see link)
* by making it a detector that can be attached to any AbsListView.
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8471075/android-listview-find-the-amount-of-pixels-scrolled
*/
public class PixelScrollDetector implements AbsListView.OnScrollListener {
private final PixelScrollListener listener;
private View mTrackedChild;
private int mTrackedChildPrevPosition;
private int mTrackedChildPrevTop;
public PixelScrollDetector(PixelScrollListener listener) {
this.listener = listener;
}
@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
// init the values every time the list is moving
if (scrollState == AbsListView.OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_TOUCH_SCROLL ||
scrollState == AbsListView.OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_FLING) {
if (mTrackedChild == null) {
syncState(view);
}
}
}
@Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
if (mTrackedChild == null) {
// case we don't have any reference yet, try again here
syncState(view);
} else {
boolean childIsSafeToTrack = (mTrackedChild.getParent() == view) && (view.getPositionForView(mTrackedChild) == mTrackedChildPrevPosition);
if (childIsSafeToTrack) {
int top = mTrackedChild.getTop();
if (listener != null) {
float deltaY = top - mTrackedChildPrevTop;
listener.onScroll(view, deltaY);
}
// re-syncing the state make the tracked child change as the list scrolls,
// and that gives a much higher true state for `childIsSafeToTrack`
syncState(view);
} else {
mTrackedChild = null;
}
}
}
private void syncState(AbsListView view) {
if (view.getChildCount() > 0) {
mTrackedChild = getChildInTheMiddle(view);
mTrackedChildPrevTop = mTrackedChild.getTop();
mTrackedChildPrevPosition = view.getPositionForView(mTrackedChild);
}
}
private View getChildInTheMiddle(AbsListView view) {
return view.getChildAt(view.getChildCount() / 2);
}
public static interface PixelScrollListener {
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, float deltaY);
}
}
Try to implement OnScrollListener:
list.setOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {
@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
int last = view.getLastVisiblePosition();
break;
}
}
@Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem,
int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
}
});