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Trying to get textView to stick to gridView scroll

I have a fragment with a textView giving instructions, and below a gridView. I wanted for the textView to scroll upwards with the gridView. In other words: for textView to disappear off screen when gridView is scrolling.
My idea of how to accomplish this is to give the gridView a fixed height that would make the entire layout scrollable - including the textView. However, up until I cannot achieve this. Is there a way to do this?
Layout no scroll:
When scrolled:
Any help/advice would be appreciated.
My layout XML:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#color/LightGrey"
android:gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/chooseLine"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="18dp"
android:text="#string/chooseLine"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<GridView
android:id="#+id/gridLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:columnWidth="130dp"
android:fitsSystemWindows="false"
android:gravity="center"
android:horizontalSpacing="5dp"
android:numColumns="auto_fit"
android:paddingTop="0dp"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
android:verticalSpacing="25dp" />
</LinearLayout>

Achieving this is is not going to be trivial. What you need is ListView's capability to add a header view, but unfortunately, GridView doesn't offer that functionality.
What I have done in the past to solve this problem is to convert the GridView to a ListView, and then add the header to the ListView. I created a wrapper adapter that takes the original adapter and combines a horizontal row's worth of grid cells into a single list row.
The tricky parts include: dynamically adapting the number of columns in a row based on the width of the screen, accounting for all combinations of view types within a row and remaining empty columns in the last row, and handling click interactions properly.

Put the whole LinearLayout in a ScrollView (How to use ScrollView in Android?) and for the GridView set android:layout_height="wrap_content"

GridView: horizontal scroll does not work

I want to implement next:
in each row of grid view some nomber of visible elements, to reach other elements we can use horizontal scroll. But:
Code 1:
<GridView
android:id="#+id/gvTimeTape"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:columnWidth="100dp"
android:numColumns="30"
android:paddingLeft="200dp"
android:scrollbars="horizontal" >
</GridView>
Result (One row, all elements fit the screen):
Code 2:
<GridView
android:id="#+id/gvTimeTape"
android:layout_width="5000dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:columnWidth="100dp"
android:numColumns="30"
android:paddingLeft="200dp"
android:scrollbars="horizontal" >
</GridView>
Result (elements not fit on the sreen and horizontall scroll not appears)
Does anybody knows in what trick?

Try to put your GridView to HorizontalScrollView.

How can i scroll the gridview horrizonally insted of vertically

I am doing a task which retrieves images from server and displays in GridView in the application. This Grid view is scrolling up and down. But i want to scroll this view left to right as the menu screen scrolls. Is it possible with grid view? Or Is there any better way to do this? please help me in doing this

Add this line in your gridview.
android:scrollbars="horizontal"
for ex:
<GridView
android:id="#+id/gridView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:animationCache="true"
android:numColumns="3"
android:scrollbars="horizontal"
android:scrollingCache="false" >
</GridView>

Is it possible to set borders to grid view in android

Is it possible to set borders to grid view in xml. Like, i want each grid cell to contain borders. If so, kindly let me know how to do it. I have set this way. But i am not finding any specific thing to set border.
<GridView
android:layout_marginTop="95px"
android:layout_marginLeft="32px"
android:id="#+id/gridview"
android:layout_width="340px"
android:layout_height="250px"
android:columnWidth="35px"
android:numColumns="7"
android:scrollbars="none"
android:verticalSpacing="14px"
android:horizontalSpacing="18px"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:background="#color/white">
</GridView>
Thank you
Swathi

Getting a button to scroll into view at the bottom of a GridView on Android

I am trying to port an existing iPhone application to android. I wish to have a button scroll into view at the bottom of a GridView to enable the user to load more data from the server. Presently, my solution simply fixes a button at the bottom of the screen instead of having it scroll into view.
Here is my layout code:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/grid"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:columnWidth="70dp"
android:numColumns="auto_fit"
android:verticalSpacing="0dp"
android:horizontalSpacing="0dp"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
android:gravity="center"
android:background="#000000"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/load_more"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Load More"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Fixing the button at the bottom of the screen won't work because I plan on placing an ad at the bottom.
Can anyone either explain conceptually how to get a load more button to scroll into view, or point me to some sample code, OR tell me why this is not idiomatic to Android and what other UI convention it uses to load more data in a GridView?
Thanks!

You can place a ScrollView inside your main LinearLayout. A ScrollView can only have one direct child, though, so you'll need to put another LinearLayout inside of it which would then contain your GridView and Button.

I had a similar problem with scrolling a GridView and after refreshing the underlying data, noticing that the scoll was not reset to the beginning. I solved it with the following code fragment
gvKeys.setSelection(0);
I'm guessing that if you know the number of items in your grid, N, that the following will work:
gvKeys.setSelection(N);