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HorizontalScrollView's child not matching it's parent view's width even on setting android:layout_width="match_parent"

I want to display a horizontal list of scrollable buttons at top of the phone screen containing 30 items, for this purpose I am using a HorizontalScrollView with a LinearLayout with "horizontal" orientation as it's child but the linear layout is not taking up the entire phone width even on setting its width as "match-parent". Here's the code :
<HorizontalScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_gravity="center">
<GridView
android:id="#+id/gridView_horizontal"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth" />
</LinearLayout>
</HorizontalScrollView>
Here is shown in the image that linear layout is not taking up the entire space and LinearLayout is only covering some of the space. Also on changing the size to a fixed size, I noticed that the HorizontalScrollView was actually behaving like a vertical Scroll View only.
NOTE: Also if there is an alternative way to display a horizontal list of buttons with 30 items with numbers from 1 to 30 on it, please suggest it.

To achive this easily you may use Recyclerview with Horizotanl Layout Manager.For Example
recycler_view.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(MainActivity.this, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false));

I don't think you need a HorizontalScrollView with a nested LinearLayout for what you are trying to achieve. It would be a better idea to simply use a horizontal RecyclerView if your button layouts are similar and the functionality of the buttons is similar too. Refer to this answer for help https://stackoverflow.com/a/40584425/9119277

ScrollView not scrolling which has ListView inside (listview is scrolling)

I have a ListView inside ScrollView, the ListView works fine (it scrolls) but the ScrollView is not scrolling
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
I want the full page to scroll (The textview should also scroll)
TextView
ListView
item1
item2
.
.
The full page must scroll along with the textview!

This will never work because your listView is effectively a scrollView, so you have a scrollView within a scrollView. Is the textView of fixed size or can it be a large amount of text? I would consider some redesign here as this is not a very good way to design a UI.
If the textView is big which means you only see a small bit of the list then you should be able to scroll by touching the textView only, but i would make the scrollView the Parent and remove the first LinearLayout, it is not needed

Instead of ListView switch to RecyclerView and inside your MainActivity.java in onCreate() do this recyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

You should never use a ScrollView with a ListView, because ListView takes care of its own vertical scrolling. Most importantly, doing this defeats all of the important optimizations in ListView for dealing with large lists, since it effectively forces the ListView to display its entire list of items to fill up the infinite container supplied by ScrollView.
The TextView class also takes care of its own scrolling, so does not require a ScrollView, but using the two together is possible to achieve the effect of a text view within a larger container.

how to have a horizontal gridview at the end of scrollview

I have a scrollview that contain details of an item in my android app, what I need is to add a horizontal list of similar items (each inflate from a layout) at the end of this view. can anybody tell me how to do this?
P.S: I've tried Recyclerview and gridview and a library form this link but all of them are not working inside the scrollview !!!

Take a look at recent-images Library. It provides horizontal gridview(one row). Just add this library dependency and put below code in bottom of your scrollView.
<com.jess.ui.TwoWayGridView
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:background="#E8E8E8"
android:id="#+id/gridview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
app:columnWidth="70dp"
app:rowHeight="70dp"
app:numColumns="auto_fit"
app:numRows="auto_fit"
app:verticalSpacing="16dp"
app:horizontalSpacing="16dp"
app:gravity="center"/>

Using ScrollViews layout into HorizontalScrollView

I want to create a sort of card layout with cards that contain a ListView layout inside a HorizontalScrollableView that can scroll the cards horizontally. Everything is working but I have problem with scrolling. I can scroll the listview vertically only if I am not scrolling the cards horizontally and viceversa.
This is the main container:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<HorizontalScrollView
android:id="#+id/listview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#ddd" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="horizontal" >
</LinearLayout>
</HorizontalScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
I inflate and add the listview items to the linear layout.
I would like to allow vertical and horizontal scrolling smoothly without these kind of limitations (simultaneous horizontal and vertical scrolling).
How can I achieve this?

Check out this, might help you implement custom two-way scrolling layout.
https://github.com/ened/Android-Tiling-ScrollView/blob/master/src/asia/ivity/android/tiledscrollview/TwoDScrollView.java
If you want any of ListView features though (like view recycling, filtering, adapters) - things are going to get more complicated.

I would suggest you to take ViewFlipper to give scroll effect horizontally. Then add ListView to flipper as a child. Use gesture to move it right and left.
ListView will still scroll vertically and if you are not able to set OnItemClickListener to ListView then you can use SingleTap method of Gesture.
ListView inside View flipper discussion 1 and ListView inside View Flipper Discussio 2

I would suggest having your horiziontallayout as the root view you return in getView() in you adapter. That way each row will scroll separate from each other. If that doesn't work right away you may have to setItemsCanFocus(true) for your rows to give the input to your horizontalscrollview.

Scrollbar does not scroll while using dynamically filled listview

I am not able to scroll in a scrollview which contains a listview and is filled dynamically as I get data from the webservice.
I am able to do scrolling in emulator through mouse wheel, but in avtual device I can not scroll the list.
The attributes of scrollview are
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_weight="0.6"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="6.0dip"
android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack="true"
android:scrollbarFadeDuration="5000"
android:scrollbarSize="20dp"
android:scrollbarStyle="insideOverlay"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="2dp" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listbox_list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="599.84"
android:minHeight="250dp" >
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
Please help me soon

by just looking at the layout_width and layout_height of your elements, it's clear that your scrollview will not scroll. unless you have a fixed height listview, never put a listview inside a scrollview (or in this case, a listview inside a layout that sits inside a scrollview).

I don't have any links to back this up right now, but it's not possible, and a well-known 'problem'. If you google a bit, or search here on SO, you'll find a number of topics covering this.
The problem arises in most cases when you have a scrolling view inside another scrolling view in the same direction. Consider the following example:
You have Two lists inside of a ScrollView.
Both lists are exactly one screen tall.
How do you scroll down to the second list?
When scrolling, how will your layout know if you are scrolling the list or the container?
This is basically the question that is the cause, and the only official solution is that it is as it should be, and there won't be a fix. Usually it is enough to have either a ListView or a ScrollView, but I have faced cases when you must have a listview in a scrollview (in my case a client wanted an iPhone-like datespinner in a scrolling page).
I solved it by using a FrameLayout, containing a custom ScrollView, and a ListView on top of that. Then in the code for the custom ScrollView, I added a line in the onScroll method that updated the top margin of the ListView, to psuh it upwards or downwards as the user scrolled. Surprisingly it worked.
NOTE: remember that:
The ListView handles its own scroll. If all you need is a scrolling
list, you do not need a ScrollView.
If you need a layout with a list and space for buttons or other
views, consider creating your layout so that the list only covers
enough space for you to fit your other views below/above without
scrolling.

Add following in your linear layout
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack="true"