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Android ListView - stop scrolling at 'whole' row position

Sorry for the confusing title, I cannot express the problem very concisely...
I have an Android app with a ListView that uses a circular / "infinite" adapter, which basically means I can scroll it up or down as much as I want and the items will wrap around when it reaches the top or bottom, making it seem to the user as if he is spinning an infinitely long list of (~100) repeating items.
The point of this setup is to let the user select a random item, simply by spinning / flinging the listview and waiting to see where it stops. I decreased the friction of the Listview so it flings a bit faster and longer and this seems to work really nice. Finally I placed a partially transparent image on top of the ListView to block out the top and bottom items (with a transition from transparent to black), making it seem as if the user is "selecting" the item in the middle, as if they were on a rotating "wheel" that they control by flinging.
There is one obvious problem: after flinging the ListView does not stop at a particular item, but it can stop hovering between two items (where the first visible item is then only partially shown). I want to avoid this because in that case it is not obvious which item has been "randomly selected".
Long story short: after the ListView has finished scrolling after flinging, I want it to stop on a "whole" row, instead of on a partially visible row.
Right now I implemented this behavior by checking when the scrolling has stopped, and then selecting the first visible item, as such:
lv = this.getListView();
lv.setFriction(0.005f);
lv.setOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {}
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
if (scrollState == OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE)
{
if (isAutoScrolling) return;
isAutoScrolling = true;
int pos = lv.getFirstVisiblePosition();
lv.setSelection(pos);
isAutoScrolling = false;
}
}
});
This works reasonably well, apart from one glaringly obvious problem... The first visible item might only be visible for a pixel or two. In that case, I want the ListView to jump "up" for those two pixels so that the second visible item is selected. Instead, of course, the first visible item is selected which means the ListView jumps "down" almost an entire row (minus those two pixels).
In short, instead of jumping to the first visible item, I want it to jump to the item that is visible the most. If the first visible item is less than half visible, I want it to jump to the second visible item.
Here's an illustration that hopefully conveys my point. The left most ListView (of each pair) shows the state after flinging has stopped (where it comes to a halt), and the right ListView shows how it looks after it made the "jump" by selecting the first visible item. On the left I show the current (wrong) situation: Item B is only barely visible, but it is still the first visible item so the listView jumps to select that item - which is not logical because it has to scroll almost an entire item height to get there. It would be much more logical to scroll to Item C (which is depicted on the right) because that is "closer".
(source: nickthissen.nl)
How can I achieve this behavior? The only way I can think of is to somehow measure how much of the first visible item is visible. If that is more than 50%, then I jump to that position. If it is less than 50%, I jump to that position + 1. However I have no clue how to measure that...
Any idea's?

You can get the visible dimensions of a child using the getChildVisibleRect method. When you have that, and you get the total height of the child, you can scroll to the appropriate child.
In the example below I check whether at least half of the child is visible:
View child = lv.getChildAt (0); // first visible child
Rect r = new Rect (0, 0, child.getWidth(), child.getHeight()); // set this initially, as required by the docs
double height = child.getHeight () * 1.0;
lv.getChildVisibleRect (child, r, null);
if (Math.abs (r.height ()) < height / 2.0) {
// show next child
}
else {
// show this child
}

Here's my final code inspired by Shade's answer.
I forgot to add "if(Math.abs(r.height())!=height)" at first. Then it just scrolls twice after it scroll to correct position because it's always greater than height/2 of childView.
Hope it helps.
listView.setOnScrollListener(new AbsListView.OnScrollListener(){
#Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view,int scrollState) {
if (scrollState == SCROLL_STATE_IDLE){
View child = listView.getChildAt (0); // first visible child
Rect r = new Rect (0, 0, child.getWidth(), child.getHeight()); // set this initially, as required by the docs
double height = child.getHeight () * 1.0;
listView.getChildVisibleRect (child, r, null);
if(Math.abs(r.height())!=height){//only smooth scroll when not scroll to correct position
if (Math.abs (r.height ()) < height / 2.0) {
listView.smoothScrollToPosition(listView.getLastVisiblePosition());
}
else if(Math.abs (r.height ()) > height / 2.0){
listView.smoothScrollToPosition(listView.getFirstVisiblePosition());
}
else{
listView.smoothScrollToPosition(listView.getFirstVisiblePosition());
}
}
}
}
#Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem,int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
}});

Follow these 3 steps, then you can get exactly what you want!!!!
1.Initialize the two variable for scrolling up and down:
int scrollingUp=0,scrollingDown=0;
2.Then increment the value of the variable based on scrolling:
#Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem,
int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
if(mLastFirstVisibleItem<firstVisibleItem)
{
scrollingDown=1;
}
if(mLastFirstVisibleItem>firstVisibleItem)
{
scrollingUp=1;
}
mLastFirstVisibleItem=firstVisibleItem;
}
3.Then do the changes in the onScrollStateChanged():
#Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
switch (scrollState) {
case SCROLL_STATE_IDLE:
if(scrollingUp==1)
{
mainListView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
View child = mainListView.getChildAt (0); // first visible child
Rect r = new Rect (0, 0, child.getWidth(), child.getHeight()); // set this initially, as required by the docs
double height = child.getHeight () * 1.0;
mainListView.getChildVisibleRect (child, r, null);
int dpDistance=Math.abs (r.height());
double minusDistance=dpDistance-height;
if (Math.abs (r.height()) < height/2)
{
mainListView.smoothScrollBy(dpDistance, 1500);
}
else
{
mainListView.smoothScrollBy((int)minusDistance, 1500);
}
scrollingUp=0;
}
});
}
if(scrollingDown==1)
{
mainListView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
View child = mainListView.getChildAt (0); // first visible child
Rect r = new Rect (0, 0, child.getWidth(), child.getHeight()); // set this initially, as required by the docs
double height = child.getHeight () * 1.0;
mainListView.getChildVisibleRect (child, r, null);
int dpDistance=Math.abs (r.height());
double minusDistance=dpDistance-height;
if (Math.abs (r.height()) < height/2)
{
mainListView.smoothScrollBy(dpDistance, 1500);
}
else
{
mainListView.smoothScrollBy((int)minusDistance, 1500);
}
scrollingDown=0;
}
});
}
break;
case SCROLL_STATE_TOUCH_SCROLL:
break;
}
}

You probably solved this problem but I think that this solution should work
if (scrollState == OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE) {
View firstChild = lv.getChildAt(0);
int pos = lv.getFirstVisiblePosition();
//if first visible item is higher than the half of its height
if (-firstChild.getTop() > firstChild.getHeight()/2) {
pos++;
}
lv.setSelection(pos);
}
getTop() for first item view always return nonpositive value so I don't use Math.abs(firstChild.getTop()) but just -firstChild.getTop(). Even if this value will be >0 then this condition is still working.
If you want to make this smoother then you can try to use lv.smoothScrollToPosition(pos) and enclose all above piece of code in
if (scrollState == OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE) {
post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
//put above code here
//and change lv.setSelection(pos) to lv.smoothScrollToPosition(pos)
}
});
}

Once you know the first visible position, you should be able to use View.getLocationinWindow() or View.getLocationOnScreen() on the next position's view to get the visible height of the first. Compare that to the View's height, and scroll to the next position if appropriate.
You may need to tweak it to account for padding, depending on what your rows look like.
I haven't tried the above, but it seems like it should work. If it doesn't, here's another, probably less robust idea:
getLastVisiblePosition(). If you take the difference between last and first, you can see how many positions are visible on the screen. Compare that to how many positions were visible when the list was first populated(scroll position 0).
If the same number of positions are visible, simply scroll to the first visible position as you are doing. If there is one more visible, scroll to "first + 1" position.

If you can get the position of the row that needs to be scrolled to, you can use the method:
smoothScrollToPosition
So something like:
int pos = lv.getFirstVisiblePosition();
lv.smoothScrollToPosition(pos);
Edit
Try this, sorry I don't have time to test, I'm out and about.
ImageView iv = //Code to find the image view
Rect rect = new Rect(iv.getLeft(), iv.getTop(), iv.getRight(), iv.getBottom());
lv.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(lv, rect, false);

My Solution:
#Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount)
{
if (swipeLayout.isRefreshing()) {
swipeLayout.setRefreshing(false);
} else {
int pos = firstVisibleItem;
if (pos == 0 && lv_post_list.getAdapter().getCount()>0) {
int topOfNext = lv_post_list.getChildAt(pos + 1).getTop();
int heightOfFirst = lv_post_list.getChildAt(pos).getHeight();
if (topOfNext > heightOfFirst) {
swipeLayout.setEnabled(true);
} else {
swipeLayout.setEnabled(false);
}
}
else
swipeLayout.setEnabled(false);
}
}

ViewGroup onLayout Problem

I have a problem with my custom ViewGroup. I layout 3 of the children in a row and use a Scroller to scroll to the middle child. Based on the touch input of the user I change the children that should be displayed and request a new layout. Then I layout the children in a new order. But when one child has been displayed in a previous layout run the children lie on top of each other. I checked that the children get layout in the right way and I think the old layout is not deleted and the new children get just drawn on top of the old layout. Is there a way to ensure that the old layout gets cleared or something?
Here is my code:
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
...
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
if(old != current)
this.requestLayout();
else
this.scrollTo(getWidth(), 0);
...
}
#Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b) {
// show current-1, current, current+1
int count = 0;
for(int i = 1; i >= -1; i--) {
// determine index of child
// the mod does a modulo
int index = mod(current-i, getChildCount());
// position in row from left to right
this.getChildAt(index).layout(count*this.getWidth(), 0, (count+1)*this.getWidth(), height);
count++;
}
// scroll to middle view
this.scrollTo(getWidth(), 0);
...
}

Try to call invalidate() at the end of onLayout().

Is there a way to programmatically scroll a scroll view to a specific edit text?

I have a very long activity with a scrollview. It is a form with various fields that the user must fill in. I have a checkbox half way down my form, and when the user checks it I want to scroll to a specific part of the view. Is there any way to scroll to an EditText object (or any other view object) programmatically?
Also, I know this is possible using X and Y coords but I want to avoid doing this as the form may changed from user to user.

private final void focusOnView(){
yourScrollView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
yourScrollView.scrollTo(0, yourEditText.getBottom());
}
});
}

The answer of Sherif elKhatib can be greatly improved, if you want to scroll the view to the center of the scroll view. This reusable method smooth scrolls the view to the visible center of a HorizontalScrollView.
private final void focusOnView(final HorizontalScrollView scroll, final View view) {
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
int vLeft = view.getLeft();
int vRight = view.getRight();
int sWidth = scroll.getWidth();
scroll.smoothScrollTo(((vLeft + vRight - sWidth) / 2), 0);
}
});
}
For a vertical ScrollView use
...
int vTop = view.getTop();
int vBottom = view.getBottom();
int sHeight = scroll.getBottom();
scroll.smoothScrollTo(0, ((vTop + vBottom - sHeight) / 2));
...

This works well for me :
targetView.getParent().requestChildFocus(targetView,targetView);
public void RequestChildFocus (View child, View focused)
child - The child of this ViewParent that wants focus. This view will contain the focused view. It is not necessarily the view that actually has focus.
focused - The view that is a descendant of child that actually has focus

In my opinion the best way to scroll to a given rectangle is via View.requestRectangleOnScreen(Rect, Boolean). You should call it on a View you want to scroll to and pass a local rectangle you want to be visible on the screen. The second parameter should be false for smooth scrolling and true for immediate scrolling.
final Rect rect = new Rect(0, 0, view.getWidth(), view.getHeight());
view.requestRectangleOnScreen(rect, false);

I made a small utility method based on Answer from WarrenFaith, this code also takes in account if that view is already visible in the scrollview, no need for scroll.
public static void scrollToView(final ScrollView scrollView, final View view) {
// View needs a focus
view.requestFocus();
// Determine if scroll needs to happen
final Rect scrollBounds = new Rect();
scrollView.getHitRect(scrollBounds);
if (!view.getLocalVisibleRect(scrollBounds)) {
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, view.getBottom());
}
});
}
}

You should make your TextView request focus:
mTextView.requestFocus();

Another varition would be:
scrollView.postDelayed(new Runnable()
{
#Override
public void run()
{
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, img_transparent.getTop());
}
}, 200);
or you can use the post() method.

My EditText was nested several layers inside my ScrollView, which itself isn't the layout's root view. Because getTop() and getBottom() were seeming to report the coordinates within it's containing view, I had it compute the distance from the top of the ScrollView to the top of the EditText by iterating through the parents of the EditText.
// Scroll the view so that the touched editText is near the top of the scroll view
new Thread(new Runnable()
{
#Override
public
void run ()
{
// Make it feel like a two step process
Utils.sleep(333);
// Determine where to set the scroll-to to by measuring the distance from the top of the scroll view
// to the control to focus on by summing the "top" position of each view in the hierarchy.
int yDistanceToControlsView = 0;
View parentView = (View) m_editTextControl.getParent();
while (true)
{
if (parentView.equals(scrollView))
{
break;
}
yDistanceToControlsView += parentView.getTop();
parentView = (View) parentView.getParent();
}
// Compute the final position value for the top and bottom of the control in the scroll view.
final int topInScrollView = yDistanceToControlsView + m_editTextControl.getTop();
final int bottomInScrollView = yDistanceToControlsView + m_editTextControl.getBottom();
// Post the scroll action to happen on the scrollView with the UI thread.
scrollView.post(new Runnable()
{
#Override
public void run()
{
int height =m_editTextControl.getHeight();
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, ((topInScrollView + bottomInScrollView) / 2) - height);
m_editTextControl.requestFocus();
}
});
}
}).start();

The above answers will work fine if the ScrollView is the direct parent of the ChildView. If your ChildView is being wrapped in another ViewGroup in the ScrollView, it will cause unexpected behavior because the View.getTop() get the position relative to its parent. In such case, you need to implement this:
public static void scrollToInvalidInputView(ScrollView scrollView, View view) {
int vTop = view.getTop();
while (!(view.getParent() instanceof ScrollView)) {
view = (View) view.getParent();
vTop += view.getTop();
}
final int scrollPosition = vTop;
new Handler().post(() -> scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, scrollPosition));
}

I know this may be too late for a better answer but a desired perfect solution must be a system like positioner. I mean, when system makes a positioning for an Editor field it places the field just up to the keyboard, so as UI/UX rules it is perfect.
What below code makes is the Android way positioning smoothly. First of all we keep the current scroll point as a reference point. Second thing is to find the best positioning scroll point for an editor, to do this we scroll to top, and then request the editor fields to make the ScrollView component to do the best positioning. Gatcha! We've learned the best position. Now, what we'll do is scroll smoothly from the previous point to the point we've found newly. If you want you may omit smooth scrolling by using scrollTo instead of smoothScrollTo only.
NOTE: The main container ScrollView is a member field named scrollViewSignup, because my example was a signup screen, as you may figure out a lot.
view.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onFocusChange(final View view, boolean b) {
if (b) {
scrollViewSignup.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
int scrollY = scrollViewSignup.getScrollY();
scrollViewSignup.scrollTo(0, 0);
final Rect rect = new Rect(0, 0, view.getWidth(), view.getHeight());
view.requestRectangleOnScreen(rect, true);
int new_scrollY = scrollViewSignup.getScrollY();
scrollViewSignup.scrollTo(0, scrollY);
scrollViewSignup.smoothScrollTo(0, new_scrollY);
}
});
}
}
});
If you want to use this block for all EditText instances, and quickly integrate it with your screen code. You can simply make a traverser like below. To do this, I've made the main OnFocusChangeListener a member field named focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor, and call it during onCreate as below.
traverseEditTextChildren(scrollViewSignup, focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor);
And the method implementation is as below.
private void traverseEditTextChildren(ViewGroup viewGroup, View.OnFocusChangeListener focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor) {
int childCount = viewGroup.getChildCount();
for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
View view = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
if (view instanceof EditText)
{
((EditText) view).setOnFocusChangeListener(focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor);
}
else if (view instanceof ViewGroup)
{
traverseEditTextChildren((ViewGroup) view, focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor);
}
}
}
So, what we've done here is making all EditText instance children to call the listener at focus.
To reach this solution, I've checked it out all the solutions here, and generated a new solution for better UI/UX result.
Many thanks to all other answers inspiring me much.

yourScrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, yourEditText.getTop());
Just Do It ;)

scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, myTextView.getTop());
}
});
Answering from my practical project.

I think I have found more elegant and less error prone solution using
ScrollView.requestChildRectangleOnScreen
There is no math involved, and contrary to other proposed solutions, it will handle correctly scrolling both up and down.
/**
* Will scroll the {#code scrollView} to make {#code viewToScroll} visible
*
* #param scrollView parent of {#code scrollableContent}
* #param scrollableContent a child of {#code scrollView} whitch holds the scrollable content (fills the viewport).
* #param viewToScroll a child of {#code scrollableContent} to whitch will scroll the the {#code scrollView}
*/
void scrollToView(ScrollView scrollView, ViewGroup scrollableContent, View viewToScroll) {
Rect viewToScrollRect = new Rect(); //coordinates to scroll to
viewToScroll.getHitRect(viewToScrollRect); //fills viewToScrollRect with coordinates of viewToScroll relative to its parent (LinearLayout)
scrollView.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(scrollableContent, viewToScrollRect, false); //ScrollView will make sure, the given viewToScrollRect is visible
}
It is a good idea to wrap it into postDelayed to make it more reliable, in case the ScrollView is being changed at the moment
/**
* Will scroll the {#code scrollView} to make {#code viewToScroll} visible
*
* #param scrollView parent of {#code scrollableContent}
* #param scrollableContent a child of {#code scrollView} whitch holds the scrollable content (fills the viewport).
* #param viewToScroll a child of {#code scrollableContent} to whitch will scroll the the {#code scrollView}
*/
private void scrollToView(final ScrollView scrollView, final ViewGroup scrollableContent, final View viewToScroll) {
long delay = 100; //delay to let finish with possible modifications to ScrollView
scrollView.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Rect viewToScrollRect = new Rect(); //coordinates to scroll to
viewToScroll.getHitRect(viewToScrollRect); //fills viewToScrollRect with coordinates of viewToScroll relative to its parent (LinearLayout)
scrollView.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(scrollableContent, viewToScrollRect, false); //ScrollView will make sure, the given viewToScrollRect is visible
}
}, delay);
}

reference : https://stackoverflow.com/a/6438240/2624806
Following worked far better.
mObservableScrollView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
mObservableScrollView.fullScroll([View_FOCUS][1]);
}
});

Examining Android source code, you can find that there already is a member function of ScrollView– scrollToChild(View) – that does exactly what is requested. Unfortunatelly, this function is for some obscure reason marked private. Based on that function I've written following function that finds the first ScrollView above the View specified as a parameter and scrolls it so that it becomes visible within the ScrollView:
private void make_visible(View view)
{
int vt = view.getTop();
int vb = view.getBottom();
View v = view;
for(;;)
{
ViewParent vp = v.getParent();
if(vp == null || !(vp instanceof ViewGroup))
break;
ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup)vp;
if(parent instanceof ScrollView)
{
ScrollView sv = (ScrollView)parent;
// Code based on ScrollView.computeScrollDeltaToGetChildRectOnScreen(Rect rect) (Android v5.1.1):
int height = sv.getHeight();
int screenTop = sv.getScrollY();
int screenBottom = screenTop + height;
int fadingEdge = sv.getVerticalFadingEdgeLength();
// leave room for top fading edge as long as rect isn't at very top
if(vt > 0)
screenTop += fadingEdge;
// leave room for bottom fading edge as long as rect isn't at very bottom
if(vb < sv.getChildAt(0).getHeight())
screenBottom -= fadingEdge;
int scrollYDelta = 0;
if(vb > screenBottom && vt > screenTop)
{
// need to move down to get it in view: move down just enough so
// that the entire rectangle is in view (or at least the first
// screen size chunk).
if(vb-vt > height) // just enough to get screen size chunk on
scrollYDelta += (vt - screenTop);
else // get entire rect at bottom of screen
scrollYDelta += (vb - screenBottom);
// make sure we aren't scrolling beyond the end of our content
int bottom = sv.getChildAt(0).getBottom();
int distanceToBottom = bottom - screenBottom;
scrollYDelta = Math.min(scrollYDelta, distanceToBottom);
}
else if(vt < screenTop && vb < screenBottom)
{
// need to move up to get it in view: move up just enough so that
// entire rectangle is in view (or at least the first screen
// size chunk of it).
if(vb-vt > height) // screen size chunk
scrollYDelta -= (screenBottom - vb);
else // entire rect at top
scrollYDelta -= (screenTop - vt);
// make sure we aren't scrolling any further than the top our content
scrollYDelta = Math.max(scrollYDelta, -sv.getScrollY());
}
sv.smoothScrollBy(0, scrollYDelta);
break;
}
// Transform coordinates to parent:
int dy = parent.getTop()-parent.getScrollY();
vt += dy;
vb += dy;
v = parent;
}
}

My solution is:
int[] spinnerLocation = {0,0};
spinner.getLocationOnScreen(spinnerLocation);
int[] scrollLocation = {0, 0};
scrollView.getLocationInWindow(scrollLocation);
int y = scrollView.getScrollY();
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, y + spinnerLocation[1] - scrollLocation[1]);

Vertical scroll, good for forms. Answer is based on Ahmadalibaloch horizontal scroll.
private final void focusOnView(final HorizontalScrollView scroll, final View view) {
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
int top = view.getTop();
int bottom = view.getBottom();
int sHeight = scroll.getHeight();
scroll.smoothScrollTo(0, ((top + bottom - sHeight) / 2));
}
});
}

You can use ObjectAnimator like this:
ObjectAnimator.ofInt(yourScrollView, "scrollY", yourView.getTop()).setDuration(1500).start();

Add postDelayed to the view so that getTop() does not return 0.
binding.scrollViewLogin.postDelayed({
val scrollTo = binding.textInputLayoutFirstName.top
binding.scrollViewLogin.isSmoothScrollingEnabled = true
binding.scrollViewLogin.smoothScrollTo(0, scrollTo)
}, 400
)
Also make sure the view is a direct child of scrollView, otherwise you would get getTop() as zero. Example: getTop() of edittext which is embedded inside TextInputLayout would return 0. So in this case, we have to compute getTop() of TextInputLayout which is a direct child of ScrollView.
<ScrollView>
<TextInputLayout>
<EditText/>
</TextInputLayout>
</ScrollView>

In my case, that's not EditText, that's googleMap.
And it works successfully like this.
private final void focusCenterOnView(final ScrollView scroll, final View view) {
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
int centreX=(int) (view.getX() + view.getWidth() / 2);
int centreY= (int) (view.getY() + view.getHeight() / 2);
scrollView.smoothScrollBy(centreX, centreY);
}
});
}

Que:Is there a way to programmatically scroll a scroll view to a specific edittext?
Ans:Nested scroll view in recyclerview last position added record data.
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
nested_scroll.setScrollY(more Detail Recycler.getBottom());
Is there a way to programmatically scroll a scroll view to a specific edit text?

The following is what I'm using:
int amountToScroll = viewToShow.getBottom() - scrollView.getHeight() + ((LinearLayout.LayoutParams) viewToShow.getLayoutParams()).bottomMargin;
// Check to see if scrolling is necessary to show the view
if (amountToScroll > 0){
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, amountToScroll);
}
This gets the scroll amount necessary to show the bottom of the view, including any margin on the bottom of that view.

Based on Sherif's answer, the following worked best for my use case. Notable changes are getTop() instead of getBottom() and smoothScrollTo() instead of scrollTo().
private void scrollToView(final View view){
final ScrollView scrollView = findViewById(R.id.bookmarksScrollView);
if(scrollView == null) return;
scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, view.getTop());
}
});
}

If you want to scroll to a view when a soft keyboard is opened, then it might get a bit tricky.
The best solution I've got so far is to use a combination of inset callbacks and requestRectangleOnScreen method.
First, you need to setup inset callbacks:
fun View.doOnApplyWindowInsetsInRoot(block: (View, WindowInsetsCompat, Rect) -> Unit) {
val initialPadding = recordInitialPaddingForView(this)
val root = getRootForView(this)
ViewCompat.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(root) { v, insets ->
block(v, insets, initialPadding)
insets
}
requestApplyInsetsWhenAttached()
}
fun View.requestApplyInsetsWhenAttached() {
if (isAttachedToWindow) {
requestApplyInsets()
} else {
addOnAttachStateChangeListener(object : View.OnAttachStateChangeListener {
override fun onViewAttachedToWindow(v: View) {
v.removeOnAttachStateChangeListener(this)
v.requestApplyInsets()
}
override fun onViewDetachedFromWindow(v: View) = Unit
})
}
}
We are setting a callback on a root view to make sure we get called. Insets could be consumed before our view in question received them, so we have to do additional work here.
Now it's almost easy:
doOnApplyWindowInsetsInRoot { _, _, _ ->
post {
if (viewInQuestion.hasFocus()) {
requestRectangleOnScreen(Rect(0, 0, width, height))
}
}
}
You can get rid of a focus check. It's there to limit number of calls to requestRectangleOnScreen. I use post to run an action after scrollable parent scheduled scroll to a focused view.

If anybody is looking for a Kotlin version you can do this with an extension function
fun ScrollView.scrollToChild(view: View, onScrolled: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
view.requestFocus()
val scrollBounds = Rect()
getHitRect(scrollBounds)
if (!view.getLocalVisibleRect(scrollBounds)) {
findViewTreeLifecycleOwner()?.lifecycleScope?.launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
smoothScrollTo(0, view.bottom - 40)
onScrolled?.invoke()
}
}
}
There is a little callback that lets you do something after the scroll.

If scrlMain is your NestedScrollView, then use the following:
scrlMain.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
scrlMain.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_UP);
}
});

here is another better version for efficient scrolling:
kotlin code to scroll to particular position of view added in scrollview(horizontal)
horizontalScrollView.post {
val targetView = findViewById<View>(R.id.target_view)
val targetX = targetView.left
horizontalScrollView.smoothScrollTo(targetX, 0)
}
for vertical scroll just change targetView.left to targetView.top
for JAVA here is a sample code:
scrollView.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
int targetViewY = targetView.getTop();
scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, targetViewY);
}
}, 500);

How to restore textview scrolling position after screen rotation?

In my Android Layout, I have a TextView. This TextView is displaying a rather large spannable text and it is able to scroll. Now when the phone is rotated, the View is destroyed and created and I have to setText() the TextView again, resetting the scroll position to the beginning.
I know I can use getScrolly() and scrollTo() to scroll to pixel positions, but due to the change in View widths, lines become longer and a line that was at pixel pos 400 might now be at 250. So this is not very helpful.
I need a way to find the first visible line in a TextView in onDestroy() and then a way to make the TextView scroll to this specific piece of text after the rotation.
Any ideas?

This is an old question, but I landed here when searching for a solution to the same problem, so here is what I came up with. I combined ideas from answers to these three questions:
Scroll TextView to text position
Dynamically Modifying Contextual/Long-Press Menu in EditText Based on Position of Long Press
ScrollView .scrollTo not working? Saving ScrollView position on rotation
I tried to extract only the relevant code from my app, so please forgive any errors. Also note that if you rotate to landscape and back, it may not end in the same position you started. For example, say "Peter" is the first visible word in portrait. When you rotate to landscape, "Peter" is the last word on its line, and the first is "Larry". When you rotate back, "Larry" will be visible.
private static float scrollSpot;
private ScrollView scrollView;
private TextView textView;
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
textView = new TextView(this);
textView.setText("Long text here...");
scrollView = new ScrollView(this);
scrollView.addView(textView);
// You may want to wrap this in an if statement that prevents it from
// running at certain times, such as the first time you launch the
// activity with a new intent.
scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
setScrollSpot(scrollSpot);
}
});
// more stuff here, including adding scrollView to your main layout
}
protected void onDestroy() {
scrollSpot = getScrollSpot();
}
/**
* #return an encoded float, where the integer portion is the offset of the
* first character of the first fully visible line, and the decimal
* portion is the percentage of a line that is visible above it.
*/
private float getScrollSpot() {
int y = scrollView.getScrollY();
Layout layout = textView.getLayout();
int topPadding = -layout.getTopPadding();
if (y <= topPadding) {
return (float) (topPadding - y) / textView.getLineHeight();
}
int line = layout.getLineForVertical(y - 1) + 1;
int offset = layout.getLineStart(line);
int above = layout.getLineTop(line) - y;
return offset + (float) above / textView.getLineHeight();
}
private void setScrollSpot(float spot) {
int offset = (int) spot;
int above = (int) ((spot - offset) * textView.getLineHeight());
Layout layout = textView.getLayout();
int line = layout.getLineForOffset(offset);
int y = (line == 0 ? -layout.getTopPadding() : layout.getLineTop(line))
- above;
scrollView.scrollTo(0, y);
}

TextView can save and restore its state for you. If you aren't able to use that, you can disable that and explicitly call the methods:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.SavedState.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#onSaveInstanceState()
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#onRestoreInstanceState(android.os.Parcelable)

The best answer, I got by searching.
#Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
final ScrollView scrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.Trial_C_ScrollViewContainer);
outState.putFloatArray(ScrollViewContainerScrollPercentage,
new float[]{
(float) scrollView.getScrollX()/scrollView.getChildAt(0).getWidth(),
(float) scrollView.getScrollY()/scrollView.getChildAt(0).getHeight() });
}
#Override
protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
final float[] scrollPercentage = savedInstanceState.getFloatArray(ScrollViewContainerScrollPercentage);
final ScrollView scrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.Trial_C_ScrollViewContainer);
scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
scrollView.scrollTo(
Math.round(scrollPercentage[0]*scrollView.getChildAt(0).getWidth()),
Math.round(scrollPercentage[1]*scrollView.getChildAt(0).getHeight()));
}
});
}

Scroll a ListView by pixels in Android

I want to scroll the a ListView in Android by number of pixels. For example I want to scroll the list 10 pixels down (so that the first item on the list has its top 10 pixel rows hidden).
I thought the obviously visible scrollBy or scrollTo methods on ListView would do the job, but they don't, instead they scroll the whole list wrongly (In fact, the getScrollY always return zero even though I have scrolled the list using my finger.)
What I'm doing is I'm capturing Trackball events and I want to scroll the listview smoothly according to the motion of the trackball.

The supported way to scroll a ListView widget is:
mListView.smoothScrollToPosition(position);
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AbsListView.html#smoothScrollToPosition(int)
However since you mentioned specifically that you would like to offset the view vertically, you must call:
mListView.setSelectionFromTop(position, yOffset);
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ListView.html#setSelectionFromTop(int,%20int)
Note that you can also use smoothScrollByOffset(yOffset). However it is only supported on API >= 11
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ListView.html#smoothScrollByOffset(int)

If you look at the source for the scrollListBy() method added in api 19 you will see that you can use the package scoped trackMotionScroll method.
public class FutureListView {
private final ListView mView;
public FutureListView(ListView view) {
mView = view;
}
/**
* Scrolls the list items within the view by a specified number of pixels.
*
* #param y the amount of pixels to scroll by vertically
*/
public void scrollListBy(int y) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
mView.scrollListBy(y);
} else {
// scrollListBy just calls trackMotionScroll
trackMotionScroll(-y, -y);
}
}
private void trackMotionScroll(int deltaY, int incrementalDeltaY) {
try {
Method method = AbsListView.class.getDeclaredMethod("trackMotionScroll", int.class, int.class);
method.setAccessible(true);
method.invoke(mView, deltaY, incrementalDeltaY);
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new RuntimeException(ex);
};
}
}

Here is some code from my ListView subclass. It can easily be adapted so it can be used in Activity code.
getListItemsHeight() returns the total pixel height of the list, and fills an array with vertical pixel offsets of each item. While this information is valid, getListScrollY() returns the current vertical pixel scroll position, and scrollListToY() scrolls the list to pixel position.
If the size or the content of the list changes, getListItemsHeight() has to be called again.
private int m_nItemCount;
private int[] m_nItemOffY;
private int getListItemsHeight()
{
ListAdapter adapter = getAdapter();
m_nItemCount = adapter.getCount();
int height = 0;
int i;
m_nItemOffY = new int[m_nItemCount];
for(i = 0; i< m_nItemCount; ++i){
View view = adapter.getView(i, null, this);
view.measure(MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED),
MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));
m_nItemOffY[i] = height;
height += view.getMeasuredHeight();
}
return height;
}
private int getListScrollY()
{
int pos, nScrollY, nItemY;
View view;
pos = getFirstVisiblePosition();
view = getChildAt(0);
nItemY = view.getTop();
nScrollY = m_nItemOffY[pos] - nItemY;
return nScrollY;
}
private void scrollListToY(int nScrollY)
{
int i, off;
for(i = 0; i < m_nItemCount; ++i){
off = m_nItemOffY[i] - nScrollY;
if(off >= 0){
setSelectionFromTop(i, off);
break;
}
}
}

For now, ListViewCompat is probably a better solution.
android.support.v4.widget.ListViewCompat.scrollListBy(#NonNull ListView listView, int y)

if you want to move by pixels then u can use this
public void scrollBy(ListView l, int px){
l.setSelectionFromTop(l.getFirstVisiblePosition(),l.getChildAt(0).getTop() - px);
}
this works for even ones with massive headers