Android list view inside a scroll view

For any Child view to scroll inside a ScrollView. Anything like ListView, RecyclerView, etc. You just have to replace ScrollView with androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView in your current xml and then magic happens.

Below is a sample xml code :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="16dp"
        android:paddingBottom="20dp">

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Recycler View inside a Scroll View"
            android:textColor="@color/black"
            android:textSize="@dimen/_20sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
            android:text="Below is a Recycler View as an example."
            android:textSize="16sp" />

        <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
            android:id="@+id/recycler_view"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/et_damaged_qty" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
            android:text="This textview automatically goes below the Recycler View."
            android:textSize="16sp" />
    </androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat>
</androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView>

Now you can get rid of all the ugly hacks you did to get around with nested scrolling.

The answer is simple and I am surprised it has yet to be answered here.

Use a Header View or/and Footer View on the list itself. Don't mix a ScrollView with a ListView or anything that can scroll. It's meant to be used with headers and footers :)

Essentially, take all the content above your ListView, put it in another .xml file as a layout and then in code inflate it and add it to the list as a header view.

i.e.

View header = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.header, null);
View footer = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.footer, null);
listView.addHeaderView(header);
listView.addFooterView(footer);