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

try this, this works for me, I forgot where I found it, somewhere in stack overflow, i'm not here to explained it why it doesn't work, but this is the answer :).

    final ListView AturIsiPulsaDataIsiPulsa = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listAturIsiPulsaDataIsiPulsa);
    AturIsiPulsaDataIsiPulsa.setOnTouchListener(new ListView.OnTouchListener() 
    {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) 
        {
            int action = event.getAction();
            switch (action) 
            {
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                // Disallow ScrollView to intercept touch events.
                v.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true);
                break;

                case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                // Allow ScrollView to intercept touch events.
                v.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(false);
                break;
            }

            // Handle ListView touch events.
            v.onTouchEvent(event);
            return true;
        }
    });
    AturIsiPulsaDataIsiPulsa.setClickable(true);
    AturIsiPulsaDataIsiPulsa.setAdapter(AturIsiPulsaDataIsiPulsaAdapter);

EDIT !, I finally found out where I got the code. here ! : ListView inside ScrollView is not scrolling on Android

Answer 2

Instead of putting the listview inside Scrollview, put the rest of the content between listview and the opening of the Scrollview as a separate view and set that view as the header of the listview. So you will finally end up only list view taking charge of Scroll.

Answer 3

hey I had a similar issue. I wanted to display a list view that didn't scroll and I found that manipulating the parameters worked but was inefficient and would behave differently on different devices.. as a result, this is a piece of my schedule code which actually does this very efficiently.

db = new dbhelper(this);

 cursor = db.dbCursor();
int count = cursor.getCount();
if (count > 0)
{    
LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.layoutId);
startManagingCursor(YOUR_CURSOR);

YOUR_ADAPTER(**or SimpleCursorAdapter **) adapter = new YOUR_ADAPTER(this,
    R.layout.itemLayout, cursor, arrayOrWhatever, R.id.textViewId,
    this.getApplication());

int i;
for (i = 0; i < count; i++){
  View listItem = adapter.getView(i,null,null);
  linearLayout.addView(listItem);
   }
}

Note: if you use this, notifyDataSetChanged(); will not work as intended as the views will not be redrawn. Do this if you need a work around

adapter.registerDataSetObserver(new DataSetObserver() {

            @Override
            public void onChanged() {
                super.onChanged();
                removeAndRedrawViews();

            }

        });

Answer 4

Although the suggested setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren() methods work in most of the cases, in some cases, specially with a lot of items, I noticed that the last elements are not displayed. So I decided to mimic a simple version of the ListView behavior in order to reuse any Adapter code, here it's the ListView alternative:

import android.content.Context;
import android.database.DataSetObserver;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.ListAdapter;

public class StretchedListView extends LinearLayout {

private final DataSetObserver dataSetObserver;
private ListAdapter adapter;
private OnItemClickListener onItemClickListener;

public StretchedListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
    this.dataSetObserver = new DataSetObserver() {
        @Override
        public void onChanged() {
            syncDataFromAdapter();
            super.onChanged();
        }

        @Override
        public void onInvalidated() {
            syncDataFromAdapter();
            super.onInvalidated();
        }
    };
}

public void setAdapter(ListAdapter adapter) {
    ensureDataSetObserverIsUnregistered();

    this.adapter = adapter;
    if (this.adapter != null) {
        this.adapter.registerDataSetObserver(dataSetObserver);
    }
    syncDataFromAdapter();
}

protected void ensureDataSetObserverIsUnregistered() {
    if (this.adapter != null) {
        this.adapter.unregisterDataSetObserver(dataSetObserver);
    }
}

public Object getItemAtPosition(int position) {
    return adapter != null ? adapter.getItem(position) : null;
}

public void setSelection(int i) {
    getChildAt(i).setSelected(true);
}

public void setOnItemClickListener(OnItemClickListener onItemClickListener) {
    this.onItemClickListener = onItemClickListener;
}

public ListAdapter getAdapter() {
    return adapter;
}

public int getCount() {
    return adapter != null ? adapter.getCount() : 0;
}

private void syncDataFromAdapter() {
    removeAllViews();
    if (adapter != null) {
        int count = adapter.getCount();
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
            View view = adapter.getView(i, null, this);
            boolean enabled = adapter.isEnabled(i);
            if (enabled) {
                final int position = i;
                final long id = adapter.getItemId(position);
                view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        if (onItemClickListener != null) {
                            onItemClickListener.onItemClick(null, v, position, id);
                        }
                    }
                });
            }
            addView(view);

        }
    }
}
}

Answer 5

This will definitely work............
You have to just replace your <ScrollView ></ScrollView> in layout XML file with this Custom ScrollView like <com.tmd.utils.VerticalScrollview > </com.tmd.utils.VerticalScrollview >

package com.tmd.utils;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.widget.ScrollView;

public class VerticalScrollview extends ScrollView{

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

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

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

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        final int action = ev.getAction();
        switch (action)
        {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                    Log.i("VerticalScrollview", "onInterceptTouchEvent: DOWN super false" );
                    super.onTouchEvent(ev);
                    break;

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                    return false; // redirect MotionEvents to ourself

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
                    Log.i("VerticalScrollview", "onInterceptTouchEvent: CANCEL super false" );
                    super.onTouchEvent(ev);
                    break;

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                    Log.i("VerticalScrollview", "onInterceptTouchEvent: UP super false" );
                    return false;

            default: Log.i("VerticalScrollview", "onInterceptTouchEvent: " + action ); break;
        }

        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        super.onTouchEvent(ev);
        Log.i("VerticalScrollview", "onTouchEvent. action: " + ev.getAction() );
         return true;
    }
}

Answer 6

You Create Custom ListView Which is non Scrollable

public class NonScrollListView extends ListView {

    public NonScrollListView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }
    public NonScrollListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }
    public NonScrollListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }
    @Override
    public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
            int heightMeasureSpec_custom = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(
                    Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
            super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec_custom);
            ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
            params.height = getMeasuredHeight();    
    }
}

In Your Layout Resources File

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

    <!-- com.Example Changed with your Package name -->

    <com.Example.NonScrollListView
        android:id="@+id/lv_nonscroll_list"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
    </com.Example.NonScrollListView>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/lv_nonscroll_list" >

        <!-- Your another layout in scroll view -->

    </RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

In Java File

Create a object of your customListview instead of ListView like : NonScrollListView non_scroll_list = (NonScrollListView) findViewById(R.id.lv_nonscroll_list);