Is there a way to programmatically scroll a scroll

Question

I have a very long activity with a scrollview. It is a form with various fields that the user must fill in. I have a checkbox half way down my form, and when the user checks it I want to scroll to a specific part of the view. Is there any way to scroll to an EditText object (or any other view object) programmatically?

Also, I know this is possible using X and Y coords but I want to avoid doing this as the form may changed from user to user.

Answer 1

The following is what I'm using:

int amountToScroll = viewToShow.getBottom() - scrollView.getHeight() + ((LinearLayout.LayoutParams) viewToShow.getLayoutParams()).bottomMargin;
// Check to see if scrolling is necessary to show the view
if (amountToScroll > 0){
    scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, amountToScroll);
}

This gets the scroll amount necessary to show the bottom of the view, including any margin on the bottom of that view.

Answer 2

Vertical scroll, good for forms. Answer is based on Ahmadalibaloch horizontal scroll.

private final void focusOnView(final HorizontalScrollView scroll, final View view) {
    new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            int top = view.getTop();
            int bottom = view.getBottom();
            int sHeight = scroll.getHeight();
            scroll.smoothScrollTo(0, ((top + bottom - sHeight) / 2));
        }
    });
}

Answer 3

I think I have found more elegant and less error prone solution using

ScrollView.requestChildRectangleOnScreen

There is no math involved, and contrary to other proposed solutions, it will handle correctly scrolling both up and down.

/**
 * Will scroll the {@code scrollView} to make {@code viewToScroll} visible
 * 
 * @param scrollView parent of {@code scrollableContent}
 * @param scrollableContent a child of {@code scrollView} whitch holds the scrollable content (fills the viewport).
 * @param viewToScroll a child of {@code scrollableContent} to whitch will scroll the the {@code scrollView}
 */
void scrollToView(ScrollView scrollView, ViewGroup scrollableContent, View viewToScroll) {
    Rect viewToScrollRect = new Rect(); //coordinates to scroll to
    viewToScroll.getHitRect(viewToScrollRect); //fills viewToScrollRect with coordinates of viewToScroll relative to its parent (LinearLayout) 
    scrollView.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(scrollableContent, viewToScrollRect, false); //ScrollView will make sure, the given viewToScrollRect is visible
}

It is a good idea to wrap it into postDelayed to make it more reliable, in case the ScrollView is being changed at the moment

/**
 * Will scroll the {@code scrollView} to make {@code viewToScroll} visible
 * 
 * @param scrollView parent of {@code scrollableContent}
 * @param scrollableContent a child of {@code scrollView} whitch holds the scrollable content (fills the viewport).
 * @param viewToScroll a child of {@code scrollableContent} to whitch will scroll the the {@code scrollView}
 */
private void scrollToView(final ScrollView scrollView, final ViewGroup scrollableContent, final View viewToScroll) {
    long delay = 100; //delay to let finish with possible modifications to ScrollView
    scrollView.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            Rect viewToScrollRect = new Rect(); //coordinates to scroll to
            viewToScroll.getHitRect(viewToScrollRect); //fills viewToScrollRect with coordinates of viewToScroll relative to its parent (LinearLayout) 
            scrollView.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(scrollableContent, viewToScrollRect, false); //ScrollView will make sure, the given viewToScrollRect is visible
        }
    }, delay);
}

Answer 4

This works well for me :

  targetView.getParent().requestChildFocus(targetView,targetView);

public void RequestChildFocus (View child, View focused)

child - The child of this ViewParent that wants focus. This view will contain the focused view. It is not necessarily the view that actually has focus.

focused - The view that is a descendant of child that actually has focus

Answer 5

My solution is:

            int[] spinnerLocation = {0,0};
            spinner.getLocationOnScreen(spinnerLocation);

            int[] scrollLocation = {0, 0};
            scrollView.getLocationInWindow(scrollLocation);

            int y = scrollView.getScrollY();

            scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, y + spinnerLocation[1] - scrollLocation[1]);

Answer 6

If scrlMain is your NestedScrollView, then use the following,

scrlMain.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        scrlMain.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_UP);

                    }
                });