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

public static int getVisiblePercent(View v) {
        if (v.isShown()) {
            Rect r = new Rect();
            v.getGlobalVisibleRect(r);
            double sVisible = r.width() * r.height();
            double sTotal = v.getWidth() * v.getHeight();
            return (int) (100 * sVisible / sTotal);
        } else {
            return -1;
        }
    }

Answer 2

Use View#getHitRect instead of View#getDrawingRect on the view you're testing. You can use View#getDrawingRect on the ScrollView instead of calculating explicitly.

Code from View#getDrawingRect:

 public void getDrawingRect(Rect outRect) {
        outRect.left = mScrollX;
        outRect.top = mScrollY;
        outRect.right = mScrollX + (mRight - mLeft);
        outRect.bottom = mScrollY + (mBottom - mTop);
 }

Code from View#getHitRect:

public void getHitRect(Rect outRect) {
        outRect.set(mLeft, mTop, mRight, mBottom);
}

Answer 3

My Solution is use NestedScrollView Scroll element:

    final Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
    scroller.getHitRect(scrollBounds);

    scroller.setOnScrollChangeListener(new NestedScrollView.OnScrollChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onScrollChange(NestedScrollView v, int scrollX, int scrollY, int oldScrollX, int oldScrollY) {

            if (myBtn1 != null) {

                if (myBtn1.getLocalVisibleRect(scrollBounds)) {
                    if (!myBtn1.getLocalVisibleRect(scrollBounds)
                            || scrollBounds.height() < myBtn1.getHeight()) {
                        Log.i(TAG, "BTN APPEAR PARCIALY");
                    } else {
                        Log.i(TAG, "BTN APPEAR FULLY!!!");
                    }
                } else {
                    Log.i(TAG, "No");
                }
            }

        }
    });
}

Answer 4

Using @Qberticus answer which was to the point but great btw, I compined a bunch of codes to check if whenever a scrollview is called and got scrolled it trigger the @Qberticus answer and you can do whatever you want, in my case I have a social network containing videos so when the view is drawed on the screen I play the video same idea like facebook and Instagram. Here's the code:

mainscrollview.getViewTreeObserver().addOnScrollChangedListener(new OnScrollChangedListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void onScrollChanged() {
                        //mainscrollview is my scrollview that have inside it a linearlayout containing many child views.
                        Rect bounds = new Rect();
                         for(int xx=1;xx<=postslayoutindex;xx++)
                         {

                          //postslayoutindex is the index of how many posts are read.
                          //postslayoutchild is the main layout for the posts.
                        if(postslayoutchild[xx]!=null){

                            postslayoutchild[xx].getHitRect(bounds);

                        Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
                        mainscrollview.getDrawingRect(scrollBounds);

                        if(Rect.intersects(scrollBounds, bounds))
                        {
                            vidPreview[xx].startPlaywithoutstoppping();
                         //I made my own custom video player using textureview and initialized it globally in the class as an array so I can access it from anywhere.
                        }
                        else
                        {

                        }


                        }
                    }
                    }
                });

Answer 5

I know its very late. But i have a good solution. Below is the code snippet for getting view visibility percentage in scroll view.

First of all set touch listener on scroll view for getting callback for scroll stop.

@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    switch ( event.getAction( ) ) {
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
            new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if(mScrollView == null){
                        mScrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.mScrollView);
                    }
                    int childCount = scrollViewRootChild.getChildCount();

                    //Scroll view location on screen
                    int[] scrollViewLocation = {0,0};
                    mScrollView.getLocationOnScreen(scrollViewLocation);

                    //Scroll view height
                    int scrollViewHeight = mScrollView.getHeight();
                    for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++){
                        View child = scrollViewRootChild.getChildAt(i);
                        if(child != null && child.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE){
                            int[] viewLocation = new int[2];
                            child.getLocationOnScreen(viewLocation);
                            int viewHeight = child.getHeight();
                            getViewVisibilityOnScrollStopped(scrollViewLocation, scrollViewHeight,
                                    viewLocation, viewHeight, (String) child.getTag(), (childCount - (i+1)));
                        }
                    }
                }
            }, 150);
            break;
    }
    return false;
}

In above code snippet, we are getting call backs for scroll view touch events and post a runnable after 150 millis(Not mandatory) after getting the callback for scroll stopped. In that runnable we will get location of scroll view on the screen and scroll view height. Then get the direct child viewgroup instance of scroll view and get the child counts. In my case direct child of scroll view is LinearLayout named scrollViewRootChild. Then iterate all the child views of scrollViewRootChild. In above code snippet you can see I am getting the location of the child on the screen in a integer array named viewLocation, get height of view in variable name viewHeight. Then i called a private method getViewVisibilityOnScrollStopped. You can get the understanding of the internal working of this method by reading documentation.

/**
 * getViewVisibilityOnScrollStopped
 * @param scrollViewLocation location of scroll view on screen
 * @param scrollViewHeight height of scroll view
 * @param viewLocation location of view on screen, you can use the method of view claas's getLocationOnScreen method.
 * @param viewHeight height of view
 * @param tag tag on view
 * @param childPending number of views pending for iteration.
 */
void getViewVisibilityOnScrollStopped(int[] scrollViewLocation, int scrollViewHeight, int[] viewLocation, int viewHeight, String tag, int childPending) {
    float visiblePercent = 0f;
    int viewBottom = viewHeight + viewLocation[1]; //Get the bottom of view.
    if(viewLocation[1] >= scrollViewLocation[1]) {  //if view's top is inside the scroll view.
        visiblePercent = 100;
        int scrollBottom = scrollViewHeight + scrollViewLocation[1];    //Get the bottom of scroll view 
        if (viewBottom >= scrollBottom) {   //If view's bottom is outside from scroll view
            int visiblePart = scrollBottom - viewLocation[1];  //Find the visible part of view by subtracting view's top from scrollview's bottom  
            visiblePercent = (float) visiblePart / viewHeight * 100;
        }
    }else{      //if view's top is outside the scroll view.
        if(viewBottom > scrollViewLocation[1]){ //if view's bottom is outside the scroll view
            int visiblePart = viewBottom - scrollViewLocation[1]; //Find the visible part of view by subtracting scroll view's top from view's bottom
            visiblePercent = (float) visiblePart / viewHeight * 100;
        }
    }
    if(visiblePercent > 0f){
        visibleWidgets.add(tag);        //List of visible view.
    }
    if(childPending == 0){
        //Do after iterating all children.
    }
}

If you feel any improvement in this code please contribute.