Android: how to check if a View inside of ScrollVi

Question

I have a ScrollView which holds a series of Views. I would like to be able to determine if a view is currently visible (if any part of it is currently displayed by the ScrollView). I would expect the below code to do this, surprisingly it does not:

Rect bounds = new Rect();
view.getDrawingRect(bounds);

Rect scrollBounds = new Rect(scroll.getScrollX(), scroll.getScrollY(), 
        scroll.getScrollX() + scroll.getWidth(), scroll.getScrollY() + scroll.getHeight());

if(Rect.intersects(scrollBounds, bounds))
{
    //is  visible
}

Answer 1

I you want to detect if your View is fully visible, try with this method:

private boolean isViewVisible(View view) {
    Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
    mScrollView.getDrawingRect(scrollBounds);
    float top = view.getY();
    float bottom = top + view.getHeight();
    if (scrollBounds.top < top && scrollBounds.bottom > bottom) {
        return true; //View is visible.
    } else {
        return false; //View is NOT visible.
    }
}

Strictly speaking you can get the visibility of a view with:

if (myView.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE) {
    //VISIBLE
} else {
    //INVISIBLE
}

The posible constant values of the visibility in a View are:

VISIBLE This view is visible. Use with setVisibility(int) and android:visibility.

INVISIBLE This view is invisible, but it still takes up space for layout purposes. Use with setVisibility(int) and android:visibility.

GONE This view is invisible, and it doesn't take any space for layout purposes. Use with setVisibility(int) and android:visibility.

Answer 2

You can use the FocusAwareScrollView which notifies when view becomes visible :

FocusAwareScrollView focusAwareScrollView = (FocusAwareScrollView) findViewById(R.id.focusAwareScrollView);
    if (focusAwareScrollView != null) {

        ArrayList<View> viewList = new ArrayList<>();
        viewList.add(yourView1);
        viewList.add(yourView2);

        focusAwareScrollView.registerViewSeenCallBack(viewList, new FocusAwareScrollView.OnViewSeenListener() {

            @Override
            public void onViewSeen(View v, int percentageScrolled) {

                if (v == yourView1) {

                    // user have seen view1

                } else if (v == yourView2) {

                    // user have seen view2
                }
            }
        });

    }

Here is class :

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class FocusAwareScrollView extends NestedScrollView {

    private List<OnScrollViewListener> onScrollViewListeners = new ArrayList<>();

    public FocusAwareScrollView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public FocusAwareScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public FocusAwareScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public interface OnScrollViewListener {
        void onScrollChanged(FocusAwareScrollView v, int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt);
    }

    public interface OnViewSeenListener {
        void onViewSeen(View v, int percentageScrolled);
    }

    public void addOnScrollListener(OnScrollViewListener l) {
        onScrollViewListeners.add(l);
    }

    public void removeOnScrollListener(OnScrollViewListener l) {
        onScrollViewListeners.remove(l);
    }

    protected void onScrollChanged(int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt) {
        for (int i = onScrollViewListeners.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            onScrollViewListeners.get(i).onScrollChanged(this, l, t, oldl, oldt);
        }
        super.onScrollChanged(l, t, oldl, oldt);
    }

    @Override
    public void requestChildFocus(View child, View focused) {
        super.requestChildFocus(child, focused);
    }

    private boolean handleViewSeenEvent(View view, int scrollBoundsBottom, int scrollYOffset,
                                        float minSeenPercentage, OnViewSeenListener onViewSeenListener) {
        int loc[] = new int[2];
        view.getLocationOnScreen(loc);
        int viewBottomPos = loc[1] - scrollYOffset + (int) (minSeenPercentage / 100 * view.getMeasuredHeight());
        if (viewBottomPos <= scrollBoundsBottom) {
            int scrollViewHeight = this.getChildAt(0).getHeight();
            int viewPosition = this.getScrollY() + view.getScrollY() + view.getHeight();
            int percentageSeen = (int) ((double) viewPosition / scrollViewHeight * 100);
            onViewSeenListener.onViewSeen(view, percentageSeen);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    public void registerViewSeenCallBack(final ArrayList<View> views, final OnViewSeenListener onViewSeenListener) {

        final boolean[] viewSeen = new boolean[views.size()];

        FocusAwareScrollView.this.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {

                final Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
                FocusAwareScrollView.this.getHitRect(scrollBounds);
                final int loc[] = new int[2];
                FocusAwareScrollView.this.getLocationOnScreen(loc);

                FocusAwareScrollView.this.setOnScrollChangeListener(new NestedScrollView.OnScrollChangeListener() {

                    boolean allViewsSeen = true;

                    @Override
                    public void onScrollChange(NestedScrollView v, int x, int y, int oldx, int oldy) {

                        for (int index = 0; index < views.size(); index++) {

                            //Change this to adjust criteria
                            float viewSeenPercent = 1;

                            if (!viewSeen[index])
                                viewSeen[index] = handleViewSeenEvent(views.get(index), scrollBounds.bottom, loc[1], viewSeenPercent, onViewSeenListener);

                            if (!viewSeen[index])
                                allViewsSeen = false;
                        }

                        //Remove this if you want continuous callbacks
                        if (allViewsSeen)
                            FocusAwareScrollView.this.setOnScrollChangeListener((NestedScrollView.OnScrollChangeListener) null);
                    }
                });
            }
        }, 500);
    }
}

Answer 3

If you want to detect that the view is FULLY visible:

private boolean isViewVisible(View view) {
    Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
    mScrollView.getDrawingRect(scrollBounds);

    float top = view.getY();
    float bottom = top + view.getHeight();

    if (scrollBounds.top < top && scrollBounds.bottom > bottom) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 4

I faced the same problem today. While Googling and reading Android reference I found this post and a method I ended up using instead;

public final boolean getLocalVisibleRect (Rect r)

Nice of them not to only providing Rect but also boolean indicating if View visible at all. On negative side this method is undocumented :(

Answer 5

This works:

Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
scrollView.getHitRect(scrollBounds);
if (imageView.getLocalVisibleRect(scrollBounds)) {
    // Any portion of the imageView, even a single pixel, is within the visible window
} else {
    // NONE of the imageView is within the visible window
}

Answer 6

To expand a bit on Bill Mote's answer using getLocalVisibleRect, you may want to check if the view is only partially visible:

Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
scrollView.getHitRect(scrollBounds);
if (!imageView.getLocalVisibleRect(scrollBounds)
    || scrollBounds.height() < imageView.getHeight()) {
    // imageView is not within or only partially within the visible window
} else {
    // imageView is completely visible
}