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In a fragment,when an image is set as the background of a RelativeLayout in ScrollView, the RelativeLayout is misbehaving

I have an activity with this layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/fragment_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".activities.MainActivity" />
Then I have this fragment layout, which I am transacting in the fragment_container of the activity:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scroll_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true">
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/relative_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/bg_login">
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
The drawable bg_login is:
But the strange thing that is happening is, the background image(bg_login) hides all the content in RelativeLayout, in the preview pane as well as when I run the app. I can't find out why this is happening! Please help.

I dont know what you want to do, are you want have multiple background in relative layouts when scrolled or not.
But i assuming you, the scroll view when have a children element with background is not best practice.
So scoll view must set to a children from parent have a background for good practice.
This may be can help you :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/bg_login">
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scroll_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true">
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/relative_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>

How to Scroll A Part of An Activity

I have a question that i couldn't Find Any Answer For it.
How can I Make An Layout Scrolling And Make Another Layout that doesn't Scroll?
On the other hand i want to make a layout Including Some buttons that scrolls if necessary and i want to put Two buttons at the bottom of the screen and i don't want them to disappear when scrolling.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
tools:context="com.myname.myapp.MainActivity">
// a bunch of Buttons and TextViews
</RelativeLayout>
</scrollView>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
// two Moveless Buttons
</RelativeLayout>
But it doesn't Work.

Your ScrollView has width and height that matches the parent. This means it takes up the entire space available leaving nothing for the RelativeLayout. You probably want to wrap what you already have inside a LinearLayout and then use layout_weight attribute to divide the space up.

I'm not sure I understand what You want to do. But try this and give feedback
( code example not tested in Android Studio)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
tools:context="com.myname.myapp.MainActivity">
// a bunch of Buttons an TextViews
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="80dp (for example)>"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
// two Moveless Buttons
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Make your root a vertical linearlayout with a scrollview, to hold the scrollable views, and a RelativeLayout, to hold your buttons.
You can take advantage of the LinearLayout's weighting ability by applying a weight of 1 to the Scrollview so it takes up as much room it can while the button-holding-RelativeLayout will be the size of your biggest button.
Here is an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ScrollView
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
tools:context="com.myname.myapp.MainActivity">
// a bunch of Buttons an TextViews
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
// two Moveless Buttons
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
HTHS!

How to get back the layout after setting the visibility to GONE in android

xml-
<RelativeLayout xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/one"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<RelativeLayout xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/two"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
The layout two is hidden after pressing a button with View.GONE, I want the layout two back when I swipe down on the screen, how can I do it, swipe down detection and getting the layout back.

yourRelativeLayout.setVisibility(View.Visible);

Just use yourView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE) on the View you want to make visible in your on swipe down method.

How to make a linear layout scrollable?

Hey all - is it possible to make an entire linear layout scrollable when it needs to be? (when all of the elements in the layout don't fit on the main screen)?
I know it is doable with views, etc...but is there a way to incorporate everything on the layout to be scrollable at the same time?
Maybe scrollable is not the right term...basically - if one of the elements (a button in this case) doesn't entirely make it onto the main screen of the phone and I need to slide a finger down to access it...if that makes sense.

A LinearLayout is a subclass of View, so anything you can do with a View you can with a Linear Layout.
So just use ScrollView with a single LinearLayout as a child

Just exemplifying what the other guys are talking about
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center|left"
android:orientation="vertical" >
Here is your layout!
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Yes you can make your whole view scrollable using ScrollView but since you can only contain one main child so you will have to add another LinearView View inside ScrollView and put your other views inside this.
-Main View
-- ScrollView
--- LinearView
---- Sub View 1
---- Sub View 2
---- Sub View 3
....

you can make any layout scrollable. Just under <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> add these lines:
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
and at the end add </ScrollView>
example of a non-scrollable activity:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/activity_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:verticalScrollbarPosition="right"
tools:context="p32929.demo.MainActivity">
<TextView
android:text="TextView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="102dp"
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:textSize="30sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
After making it scrollable, it becomes like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/activity_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:verticalScrollbarPosition="right"
tools:context="p32929.demo.MainActivity">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="102dp"
android:text="TextView"
android:textSize="30sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>

How do you make a LinearLayout scrollable?

I have lot of items on the screen and I need to use the scrollbar so the user can scroll down. However, the scroll is either not visible or it's not working. How is it possible to add a scrollbar to a LinearLayout?

Wrap the linear layout with a <ScrollView>
See here for an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<!-- Content here -->
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
Note: fill_parent is deprecated and renamed to match_parent in API Level 8
and higher.

<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scroll"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

You need to wrap your linear layout with a scroll view
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scroll"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

This can be done using the tag <ScrollView>. For ScrollView, one thing you have to remind that, ScrollView must have a single child.
If you want your full layout to be scrollable then add <ScrollView> at the top. Check the example given below.
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scroll"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<!-- Content here -->
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
But if you want some part of your layout to be scrollable then add <ScrollView> within that part. Check the example given below.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="400dp">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<!-- Content here -->
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

Here is how I did it by trial and error.
ScrollView - (the outer wrapper).
LinearLayout (child-1).
LinearLayout (child-1a).
LinearLayout (child-1b).
Since ScrollView can have only one child, that child is a linear layout. Then all the other layout types occur in the first linear layout. I haven't tried to include a relative layout yet, but they drive me nuts so I will wait until my sanity returns.

you need to use the following attribute and enclose it within the linear layout
<LinearLayout ...>
<scrollView ...>
</scrollView>
</LinearLayout>

You need to place ScrollView as the first child of Layout file and now put your linearlayout inside it. Now, android will decide on the basis of content and device size available whether to show a scrollable or not.
Make sure linearlayout has no sibling because ScrollView can not have more than one child.

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<---------Content Here --------------->
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

Whenever you wanted to make a layout scrollable, you can use <ScrollView> With a layout or component in it.

You can add an atrribute in linearLayout : android:scrollbars="vertical"