Nested scrollview android studio

Android ScrollView,NestedScrollView,HorizontalScrollView etc

In this piece we want to look at several scrollview variations or subclasses and how they are used. Here are the variations we cover so far:

1. ScrollView – Superclass
2. NestedScrollView – child class
3. HorizontalScrollView – child class
4. StickyScrollView – Child class and third party library.
5. ParallaxScrollView – child class and third party library

1. ScrollView

Android ScrollView Tutorials and Examples

A ScrollView is an android layout that permits it’s child views to be scrolled vertically. This is important because in many cases you need content to be scrolled. Normally adapterviews like ListView and recyclerview have scrolling capability but not many views. Hence we don’t use scrollview with them otherwise we get degraded performance.

With scrollview you only scroll up or down. However if you want horizontal scrolling then you can use the HorizontalScrollView.

Furthermore, ScrollView should only have one direct child. This then means that if you desire to add multiple children then use a ViewGroup like relativelayout or LinearLayout. Then add those children to the viewgroup and the viewgroup to Scrollview.

Android Engineeres are recommending that you use NestedScrollView instead of ScrollView for vertical scrolling.

This is because the latter offers greater user interface flexibility and support for the material design scrolling patterns.

ScrollView API Definition

A scrollview as a class resides in the android.widget package and derives from FrameLayout:

Here’s the inheritance hierarchy of FrameLayout:

Important ScrollView methods

(a). scrollTo(int x, int y)

In this method you pass the scrolled position of your view. This version also clamps the scrolling to the bounds of our child.

(b). smoothScrollTo(int x, int y)

Like scrollTo(int, int) , but scroll smoothly instead of immediately.

(c). getChildAt(int index)

This method will return the view at the specified position in the group.

(d). getChildCount()

This method returns the number of children in the group.

Quick ScrollView Examples

1. ScrollView – How to Scroll to the Top

Let’s see how you can scroll to the top of your scrollview.

2. How to Scroll to Down in ScrollView

Then we want to see also how we can scroll down to the bottom of our scrollview programmatically.

It’s a static method and we pass ScrollView instance as a parameter. First we get the height of the scrollview as we as it’s child counts.

At the end of the day we are still using the scrollTo() method, passing in the x and y positions.

3. How to smooth scroll to up

We use the smoothScrollTo() method and pass the positions.

4. How to smooth scroll to Down

Here’s how we can scroll to down programmatically.

5. How to calculate height of ScrollView by Child View

6. How to create a scrollview with maximum height limit

What if we desire to set the maximum height limit to our scrollview. Well we can simply create a custom scrollview by deriving from the android.widget.ScrollView class, override our constructors as well as the onMeasure() method.

7. Full ScrollView Example

Let’s look a full scrollview example.

(a). MainActivity.java

(b). activity_main.xml

2. NestedScrollView

Android NestedScrollView Tutorials and Examples.

NestedScrollView is a ScrollView that is able to act as a nested scrolling parent and child on both new and old versions of Android.

Nested scrolling is enabled by default in NestedScrollView.

NestedScrollView is recommended in many cases over ScrollView.

This is due it’s ability to offer greater user interface flexibility and support for the material design scrolling patterns.

NestedScrollView API Definition

NestedScrollView was added in android version 22.1.0 and belongs to Maven artifact com.android.support:support-compat:latest_version .

Like ScrollView, nested scrollview derives from FrameLayout.

However it goes further and implements three scrolling interfaces:

1. NestedScrollingParent – an interface implemented by [ViewGroups(/android/viewgroup)] that wish to support scrolling operations delegated by a nested child view.
2. NestedScrollingChild2 – an interface implemented by View subclasses that wish to support dispatching nested scrolling operations to a cooperating parent ViewGroup.
3. ScrollingView – An interface that can be implemented by Views to provide scroll related APIs.

Here’s the inheritance hierarchy for nestedscrollview:

You can find complete API reference in android developer documenattion.

Quick NestedScrollView Examples

1. How to Calculate NestedScrollView Height by it’s child view

HorizontalScrollView

Android HorizontalScrollView Tutorial and examples.

A HorizontalScrollView is a Layout container for a view hierarchy that can be scrolled by the user, allowing it to be larger than the physical display.

You use HorizontalScrollView, as the name suggests, to scroll horizontally. If you want to scroll vertically then you can use ScrollView or even better NestedScrollView.

All these «ScrollViews», HorizontalScrollView included, derive from the FrameLayout.

Hence you should strive to place only a single child. Then that child can have multiple other views.

Alot of people love using LinearLayout with horizontal orientation. Thus providing a nice and easy way of showing and then scrolling through views arranged nicely horizontally.

Beware that some views are capable of handling their own scrolling. Such is the textView. So it doesn’t require HorizontalScrollView.

HorizontalScrollView API Definition

HorizontalScrollView was added in API level 3 so is actually than you might think.

We said it derives from FrameLayout

Here’s it’s inheritance tree:

HorizontalScrollView Examples

4. StickyScrollView

StickyScrollView is a library that provides you with a scrollview with a custom header and footer. It is really ideal for showing details, for example product details. As you may know scrollview is a layout that permits its children to be scrolled.

Well StickScrollview provides you with the same capability as scrollview but allows you to add a header and footer.

StickyScrollView is written in Java and extends ScrollView class:

Installation

StickScrollView is hosted in Maven jitpack so to install first go to your root level build/gradle and register jitpack as a repository:

Then you add it as a dependency:

How to Use it

Well its a layout so its usage is very simple:

Full Example

Well first install as instructed above. Then make sure your minimum API level is API 16 or above.

(a). activity_main.xml

(b). MainActivity.java

First add your imports, including the StickyScrollView library:

Then create your activity class:

Define StickyScrollView as an instance field:

Reference views in your onCreate() method:

Now handle click events:

Here is the full code:

Here is the demo:

Special thanks to @amarjain07 for this awesome library and example.

5. Parallax Scroll

Android Paralax Scroll Library Tutorial and Example.

ParallaxScroll is a library that provides us with Parallax ScrollView and ListView for Android.

ParallaxScroll enriches us with these special adapterviews:

1. ParallaxListView.
2. ParallaxExpandableListView.
3. ParallaxScrollView.

This library was created by Nir Hartmann.

The library has existed for more than 5 years and is still actively maintained. It also has examples which we will explore later on.

ParallaxScroll supports Android 1.6 and above.

Android Parallax Scroll

See the demo app at Google Play here.

ParallaxScrollView internal Details

Let’s explore the internal specifics of Parallax before jumping to usage examples. We want to see the several classes from which the library is built so that we can even extend.

(a). ParallaxScrollView

This is class that internally derives from ScrollView.

You all know that a scrollview is a Layout container for a view hierarchy that can be scrolled by the user, allowing it to be larger than the physical display.

Like most View resources, ParallaxScrollView exposes three public constructors:

(a). ParallaxListView

ParallaxListView derives from the ListView class:

It also has three constructors we can use to create it’s instance:

It goes ahead and exposes us some methods we can use apart from the normall ListView methods:

(c). ParallaxExpandableListView

ParallaxExpandableListView adds parallax scroll to an ExpandableListView from which it derives.

This class provides us two constructors for object creation:

Here are some of the methods we can use apart from those we derive from ExpandableListView.

Installing ParallaxScroll

You can install ParallaxScroll from it’s maven repository via gradle.

All you need in android 1.6 and above. Then you add the following implementation statement in your app level build.gradle:

Then you sync the project to add the library files into your project.

Using ParallaxScroll

Let’s say you want to use a ScrollView , then you can add the following in your layout.

In that case we’ve used a ParallaxScrollView and placed inside it a LinearLayout with Text content that will be scrolled.

Well you can also add a ParallaxListView and ParallaxExpandableListView in your layout.

Full ParallaxScroll Examples.

Here’s an example.

1. Single Parallax ListView example.

Let’s start by looking at a our SingleParallaxListView example.

(a). CustomListAdapter.java

We start by writing our adapter class. It will derive from BaseAdapter.

(b). SingleParallaxListView.java

This is our activity class. This activity will contain our ParallaxListView.

(c). list_one_parallax.xml

You can see this is the layout that will be inflated into our SingleParallaxListView .

2. Multi Parallax ListView example.

We are using the CustomListAdapter we had already defined.

(a). MultipleParallaxListView.java

(b) list_multiple_parallax.xml

Single Parallax ScrollView Example

Let’s now look at single parallax scrollview example.

(a). SingleParallaxScrollView.java

(b) scroll_one_parallax.xml

4. SingleParallaxAlphaScrollView Example

(a) SingleParallaxAlphaScrollView.java

(b) scroll_one_parallax_alpha.xml

SingleParallax ExpandableListView Example

(a) CustomExpandableListAdapter.java

(b) SingleParallaxExpandableListView.java

(c) expand_list_one_parallax.xml

You can get full source samples below:

Download

Also check our video tutorial it’s more detailed and explained in step by step.

No.	Location	Link
1.	GitHub	Direct Download
2.	GitHub	Library
3.	Google Play	Demo App

Credit to the Original Creator @nirhart

How to Run

1. Download the project.
2. Go over to sample folder and edit import it to your android studio.Alternatively you can just copy paste the classes as well as the layouts and maybe other resources into your already created project.
3. Then edit the app level build/gradle to add our dependency as we had stated during the installation.

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Hello Readers! In this post, we are going to learn about how to use android nestedScrollView widget in any android application. We will also go through different attributes of nestedScrollView widget that can be used to customise it.

Output

Tutorialwing Android NestedScrollView Output

Tutorialwing Android NestedScrollView Output

Getting Started

NestedScrollView widget can be defined as below –

As the Name suggests, NestedScrollView is a widget that are used when we want to implement scrollable view inside another scrollable view.

Normally, it is difficult to implement scrollable view inside another scrollable view because system would be unable to decide which view to scroll. This is where NestedScrollView comes in.

Attributes of Android NestedScrollView Widget

Attributes of nestedScrollView is same as scrollView. It is a support v4 widget that runs on old version of android as well. It is added in api 22.

Example of Android NestedScrollView Widget

At first, we will create android application. Then, we will use nestedScrollView widget in this application.

1. Creating New Project

Follow steps below to create new project. Please ignore the steps if you have already created a new application.

Step	Description
1.	Open Android Studio.
2.	Go to File => New => New Project. Write application name as NestedScrollView. Then, click next button.
3.	Select minimum SDK you need. However, we have selected 17 as minimum SDK. Then, click next button
4.	Then, select Empty Activity => click next => click finish.
5.	If you have followed above process correctly, you will get a newly created project successfully. However, you can also visit post to create a new project to know steps in detail.

Now, we will modify xml and java file to use nestedScrollView widget in the application.

2. Modify Values folder

Open res/values/strings.xml file. Then, add below code into it.

3. Download Drawable Resources Needed

You will need some images, stored in res/drawable folder, to be used in the application. These drawable images will be used by views inside nestedScrollView widget in the application.

4. Use NestedScrollView Widget in xml file

Open res/layout/activity_main.xml file. Then, add below code into it.

In activity_main.xml file, we have defined nestedScrollView inside scrollView. Using nestedScrollView, we have defined scrollable view inside another scrollable view. It is used same as scrollView i.e. It can contain only one direct child. Note that we have defined linearLayout inside nestedScrollView as a direct child. Then, we have defined view to be scrolled inside it. All the imageViews have been defined inside scrollView.

5. Access NestedScrollView Widget in java file

Open src/main/java/com.tutorialwing.nestedscrollview/MainActivity.java file. Then, add below code into it.

We have changed nothing in MainActivity. So, it is as it was after creating project.

Since AndroidManifest.xml file is very important in any android application, we are also going to see the content inside this file.

AndroidManifest.xml

Code inside src/main/AndroidManifest.xml file is as below –

When we run the program, we will get output as shown above.

That’s end of tutorial on Android NestedScrollView widget.

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