How can I put a ListView into a ScrollView without

Question

I've searched around for solutions to this problem, and the only answer I can find seems to be "don't put a ListView into a ScrollView". I have yet to see any real explanation for why though. The only reason I can seem to find is that Google doesn't think you should want to do that. Well I do, so I did.

So the question is, how can you place a ListView into a ScrollView without it collapsing to its minimum height?

Answer 1

There's a built-in setting for it. On the ScrollView:

android:fillViewport="true"

In Java,

mScrollView.setFillViewport(true);

Romain Guy explains it in depth here: http://www.curious-creature.org/2010/08/15/scrollviews-handy-trick/

Answer 2

Using a ListView to make it not scroll is extremely expensive and goes against the whole purpose of ListView. You should NOT do this. Just use a LinearLayout instead.

Answer 3

A solution I use is, to add all Content of the ScrollView (what should be above and under the listView) as headerView and footerView in the ListView.

So it works like, also the convertview is resued how it should be.

Answer 4

This is the only thing that worked for me:

on Lollipop onwards you can use

yourtListView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(true);

This enable or disable nested scrolling for this view if you need backwards compatibility with older version of the OS you'll have to use the RecyclerView.

Answer 5

We could not use two scrolling simulteniuosly.We will have get total length of ListView and expand listview with the total height .Then we can add ListView in ScrollView directly or using LinearLayout because ScrollView have directly one child . copy setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(lv) method in your code and expand listview then you can use listview inside scrollview. \layout xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
 <ScrollView

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
         android:background="#1D1D1D"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:scrollbars="none" >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:background="#1D1D1D"
            android:orientation="vertical" >

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="40dip"
                android:background="#333"
                android:gravity="center_vertical"
                android:paddingLeft="8dip"
                android:text="First ListView"
                android:textColor="#C7C7C7"
                android:textSize="20sp" />

            <ListView
                android:id="@+id/first_listview"
                android:layout_width="260dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:divider="#00000000"
               android:listSelector="#ff0000"
                android:scrollbars="none" />

               <TextView
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="40dip"
                android:background="#333"
                android:gravity="center_vertical"
                android:paddingLeft="8dip"
                android:text="Second ListView"
                android:textColor="#C7C7C7"
                android:textSize="20sp" />

            <ListView
                android:id="@+id/secondList"
                android:layout_width="260dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:divider="#00000000"
                android:listSelector="#ffcc00"
                android:scrollbars="none" />
  </LinearLayout>
  </ScrollView>

   </LinearLayout>

onCreate method in Activity class:

 import java.util.ArrayList;
  import android.app.Activity;
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.view.Menu;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.view.ViewGroup;
 import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
 import android.widget.ListAdapter;
  import android.widget.ListView;

   public class MainActivity extends Activity {

   @Override
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.listview_inside_scrollview);
    ListView list_first=(ListView) findViewById(R.id.first_listview);
    ListView list_second=(ListView) findViewById(R.id.secondList);
    ArrayList<String> list=new ArrayList<String>();
    for(int x=0;x<30;x++)
    {
        list.add("Item "+x);
    }

       ArrayAdapter<String> adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(), 
          android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,list);               
      list_first.setAdapter(adapter);

     setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(list_first);

      list_second.setAdapter(adapter);

    setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(list_second);
   }



   public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) {
    ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter();
    if (listAdapter == null) {
        // pre-condition
        return;
    }

    int totalHeight = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
        View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView);
        listItem.measure(0, 0);
        totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight();
    }

    ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams();
    params.height = totalHeight
            + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1));
    listView.setLayoutParams(params);
      }

Answer 6

There are two issue when using a ListView inside a ScrollView.

1- ListView must fully expand to its children height. this ListView resolve this:

public class ListViewExpanded extends ListView
{
    public ListViewExpanded(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
        setDividerHeight(0);
    }

    @Override
    public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
    {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST));
    }
}

Divider height must be 0, use padding in rows instead.

2- The ListView consumes touch events so ScrollView can't be scrolled as usual. This ScrollView resolve this issue:

public class ScrollViewInterceptor extends ScrollView
{
    float startY;

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

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent e)
    {
        onTouchEvent(e);
        if (e.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) startY = e.getY();
        return (e.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) && (Math.abs(startY - e.getY()) > 50);
    }
}

This is the best way I found to do the trick!