Why does my android activity always start scrolled to the bottom?
Whenever I start this activity, it always starts bottomed out--scrolled all the way to the bottom. I am not doing anything weird in the activity OnCreate (or anywhere for that matter) that I would expect to change the scroll position. I have tried setting focus to the topmost focusable control, and the scrollto method, but neither of them are working. Besides, none of my other activities has this problem. Here's the layout:
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/scroll"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_update_header"
android:textSize="18sp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\n"
android:textSize="4sp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Variable:"
android:textSize="18sp"/>
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_variables_spinner"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\n"
android:textSize="4sp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Network:"
android:textSize="18sp"/>
<RadioGroup
android:id="@+id/widget1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical">
<RadioButton
android:text="Web"
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_update_rb_web"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="NetRadioButtonSelected"
android:checked="true"/>
<RadioButton
android:text="Socket Server"
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_update_rb_socket_server"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="NetRadioButtonSelected"/>
</RadioGroup>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\n"
android:textSize="4sp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Socket server request type:"
android:textSize="18sp"/>
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_socket_server_req_types_spinner"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\n"
android:textSize="4sp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Socket server body:"
android:textSize="18sp"/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_update_ss_body"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:enabled="false"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\n"
android:textSize="4sp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Url:"
android:textSize="18sp"/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_update_url"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\n"
android:textSize="4sp"/>
<Button
android:text="Save refresh update"
android:id="@+id/edit_refresh_save_btn"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:onClick="SaveRefreshUpdate">
</Button>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\n"
android:textSize="4sp"/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
When Android starts an activity, some control needs to take focus. When there's no designated control to take focus, the system chooses the first eligible control that wants focus.
If you set the following property in your LinearLayout - android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
your LinearLayout
will be focused on start and your activity won't scroll to EditText
in the bottom.
Instead of polluting items in your layout, you can add this into your Activity/Class:
ScrollView scrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.scrollView);
scrollView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
scrollView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS);
This way it isn't an element within your scrollView getting focus, it's your scrollView as a container which get's the first focus, moving onto the child view's after this.