Can I scroll a ScrollView programmatically in Android?

Solution 1:

The answer from Pragna does not work always, try this:

mScrollView.post(new Runnable() { 
        public void run() { 
             mScrollView.scrollTo(0, mScrollView.getBottom());
        } 
});

or

mScrollView.post(new Runnable() { 
        public void run() { 
             mScrollView.fullScroll(mScrollView.FOCUS_DOWN);
        } 
});

if You want to scroll to start

mScrollView.post(new Runnable() { 
        public void run() { 
             mScrollView.fullScroll(mScrollView.FOCUS_UP);
        } 
});

Solution 2:

ScrollView sv = (ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.scrl);
sv.scrollTo(0, sv.getBottom());

or

sv.scrollTo(5, 10);

Solution 3:

I wanted the scrollView to scroll directly after onCreateView() (not after e.g. a button click). To get it to work I needed to use a ViewTreeObserver:

mScrollView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            mScrollView.post(new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    mScrollView.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_DOWN);
                }
            });
        }
    });

But beware that this will be called everytime something gets layouted (e.g if you set a view invisible or similar) so don't forget to remove this listener if you don't need it anymore with:

public void removeGlobalOnLayoutListener (ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener victim) on SDK Lvl < 16

or

public void removeOnGlobalLayoutListener (ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener victim) in SDK Lvl >= 16

Solution 4:

There are a lot of good answers here, but I only want to add one thing. It sometimes happens that you want to scroll your ScrollView to a specific view of the layout, instead of a full scroll to the top or the bottom.

A simple example: in a registration form, if the user tap the "Signup" button when a edit text of the form is not filled, you want to scroll to that specific edit text to tell the user that he must fill that field.

In that case, you can do something like that:

scrollView.post(new Runnable() { 
        public void run() { 
             scrollView.scrollTo(0, editText.getBottom());
        } 
});

or, if you want a smooth scroll instead of an instant scroll:

scrollView.post(new Runnable() { 
            public void run() { 
                 scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, editText.getBottom());
            } 
    });

Obviously you can use any type of view instead of Edit Text. Note that getBottom() returns the coordinates of the view based on its parent layout, so all the views used inside the ScrollView should have only a parent (for example a Linear Layout).

If you have multiple parents inside the child of the ScrollView, the only solution i've found is to call requestChildFocus on the parent view:

editText.getParent().requestChildFocus(editText, editText);

but in this case you cannot have a smooth scroll.

I hope this answer can help someone with the same problem.