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Fit Scroll View to Available Space in Android

I have a problem with my ScrollView. I want to fit it inside the space available but i don´t know how.
Now i have my ScrollView and my TextView before one LinearLayout:
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/previousimage"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/margin">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/question_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/margintop"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/margin_five"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="#dimen/common_textsize" />
</ScrollView>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/bottom_options"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/scrollView"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/margin_small"
android:gravity="center|bottom"
android:orientation="vertical">
The problem is that if i have so much text inside my TextView the LinearLayout go down and it hides.I want to scroll the text inside. Without push down the LinearLayout.
I want to take this space for ScrollView automatically to adapt to all screen size.
See the image Layaout
Thank you!

Define LinearLayout before your ScrollView and set ScrollView to above LinearLayout, match_parent. Like this:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/bottom_options"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/margin_small"
android:gravity="center|bottom"
android:orientation="vertical">
...
</LinearLayout>
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/previousimage"
android:layout_above="#+id/bottom_options"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/margin">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/question_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/margintop"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/margin_five"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="#dimen/common_textsize" />
</ScrollView>

The ScrollView should always match_parent (or at least be smaller than the available space) otherwise it just take the same space as its children and so from its perspective, no children is out, so no need to scroll.

My scroll view doesn't scroll

I have a xml view like this, and as you see I have scroll view in it, but scroll view doesn't scroll and just match screen size, and I'm not able to see data under the screen.
This is my code:
CODE HAS BEEN UPDATED
<ScrollView
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:fillViewport="true">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/white"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/aboveRelative"
android:background="#color/darkOrange">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/category_text"
android:textSize="23sp"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:text="Category"
android:paddingLeft="10sp" />
<GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/gridview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:verticalSpacing="0dp"
android:horizontalSpacing="10dp"
android:numColumns="2"
/>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/gray"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/topVoices"
android:textSize="23sp"
android:text="#string/topVoices"
android:paddingLeft="10sp" />
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/trendlist"
android:elevation="2dp"
android:background="#color/white"
android:layout_margin="10dp" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/moreTrend"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:textSize="23sp"
android:text="More"
android:paddingLeft="10sp" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/newVoices"
android:textSize="23sp"
android:text="#string/newVoices"
android:paddingLeft="10sp" />
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/soundlist"
android:background="#color/white"
android:layout_below="#+id/newVoices"
android:elevation="5dp"
android:layout_margin="10dp" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/soundlist"
android:id="#+id/moreNew"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:textSize="23sp"
android:text="#string/more"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/yoursongs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:background="#color/white"
android:padding="10dp">
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I'm sure that there are some data under the screen but scroll view doesn't let me scroll it and see them.

Scrollview layout can only have ONE child layout. You still have TWO linear layout children in the XML you posted.
This is explained in the first paragraph of the Android developer documentation for ScrollView:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ScrollView.html

Your layout is wrong. Here's what you gotta do:
Change your ScrollView layout_height attribute to match_parent.
The ScrollView will take the whole screen and make itself scrollable, that's why you need it as match_parent. The scrolling happens inside the View.
Put everything inside the ScrollView in a Linear or RelativeLayout. (see below)
The ScrollView extends FrameLayout, so it can only have a single child view.
IMPORTANT: this layout must have the attribute layout_height set to wrap_content, otherwise the ScrollView won't have anything larger than itself to scroll.
I'd also remove the root layout from the XML and leave the ScrollView as root.
Simply because it's pointless and it requires extra work from the LayoutInflater.
EDIT: your layout is also way more complex that it needs to be.
It lead me to believe you did not have a single child inside the ScrollView (which you do).
Still, item #1 should fix your problem.

Finally, I found answer. The problem was from fillviewport in scroll view. if you remove fillviewport and set fix size for listview, you can scroll.

ScrollView not Scrolling - Android

I am unable to scroll my scrollview. It has a textView, an imageview and few linear layouts inside of it. When I replace the imageview and linear layouts with textview it is working. Here is my code:
<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" >
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="Drop Text Down"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="555dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextView" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/ln"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:background="#000000"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView06"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextView" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView05"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextView" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView04"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextView" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView03"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextView" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView02"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextView" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextViewTextView" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

Put an empty view with fixed height
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp" />
as your last item in the linear layout which is a child of scroll view..
This is just a trick, I don't know the logic. Maybe, in the presence of bottom navigation bar, the scrollview behaves like that. So if we add another view with height that matches the bottom navigation bar's height(40-50) it performs well.

The child view of a ScrollView should be set to wrap_content. If you set it to match_parent, it will fill the area of the ScrollView and never scroll, because it won't be larger than the ScrollView.
Try changing the child LinearLayout layout_height to either wrap_content or a specific size (in dp) instead of match_parent.

Your ScrollView child needs to have its height as wrap_content :
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >
...
...
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

I was able to solve it by adding (android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden") in the activity manifest, like below
<activity
android:name=".ui.main.MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
</activity>

Maybe i'm too late for this, but the only method that helped me fix the scrollview not scrolling after hours of searching and trial and error method is, setting scrollview's height to 0dp.
Here's an example xml code for reference.
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:fillViewport="true">
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
</ScrollView>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
The top constraint layout having "match_parent" will fit the screen.
The Scroll View inside having "0dp" adjusts the height to the content inside and creates a scrollable view when the content goes beyond the top/ parent constraint layout.
The inner most constraint layout (child of scroll view) will contain the views and actual contents.

You should set the height of LinearLayout (child of Scrollview) to wrap_content.
When the child is taller than the ScrollView, then android:fillViewport="true" attribute has no effect.

If you set the height of the Linear layout inside the scrollview to match_parent, there is nothing to scroll if the height is the same as the scrollview.
You have to set it to wrap-content. This way the height of the LinearLayout will be greater than the scrollview, and you will then be able to scroll.
Corect Code
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
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:animateLayoutChanges="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >
Aditional Note:
You also cannot use weight and weightsum inside a scrollview. Doing so will make the scrollview unscrollable.

use Table Layout instead of linear layout something like this:
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:fadeScrollbars="false" android:padding="6dip">
<TableLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:stretchColumns="1"
>
//your stuff
</TableLayout>
</ScrollView>

<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true" >
Remove android:fillViewport="true" from above element

android- error with my scrollview

I want to make a ScrollView which includes a LinearLayout:
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:background="#000000" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/mainHolder"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#000000"
android:orientation="horizontal" />
</ScrollView>
Now when i add children to mainHolder I cant scroll. whats wrong?

ScrollView only supports vertical scrolling. For horizontal scrolling, use HorizontalScrollView.

Adding a horizontal linear layout in a vertical scroll view is suspicious.
For horizontal, scrolling, use a HorizontalScrollView.
Also, wrap_content size in the scrolling direction is meaningless. If it really wrapped to content size, there would be no need to scroll.

try this one
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:background="#000000" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/mainHolder"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#000000"
android:orientation="horizontal" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

you are adding the child to the linear layout which is horizontal in orientation
so it wrap the content horizontally
change the orientation of the linear layout to vertical or try Horizontal Scrollview
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/mainHolder"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#000000"
android:orientation="vertical" />

scroll view resizing

I have a problem with ScrollView component.
How to prevent stretching of ScrollView?
I have a LinearLayout with weight_sum = 2 and in it an ImageView with layout_weight = 1 and a ScrollView with layout_weight = 1
It looks fine when ScrollView has 2, 3 elements, that means that it doesn't need to scroll.
When I add more elements the ScrollView resizes, its height gets bigger and bigger, and the ImageView gets smaller.
Height of those items is wrap_content.
How to prevent that problem?
Code:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="2" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/pregamePlayerNames"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#drawable/en_player_names" />
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/pregamePlayerNamesScroll"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/home_player_names_ram"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

set the items with weight to height=0dp if you want to dynamically divide the space.

If you are giving weight to the layout no need to specify the height
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/pregamePlayerNames"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:background="#drawable/en_player_names" />
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" >
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