Add new items to top of list view on Android?

Question

Android has the transcript mode to allow to automatically scroll a list view to the bottom when new data is added to the adapter.

Can this be somehow reversed so tha

Answer 1

I spent several hours attempting to accomplish the same thing. Essentially, this acts like a chat app where the user scrolls up to view older messages at the top of the list.

The problem is that, you want to dynamically add another 50 or 100 records to the top but the scrolling should be continuous from where the prepended items were added.

The moment you do a notifyDataSetChanged, the ListView will automatically position itself at the first item in your data set and NOT at the position that preceded the position where the new items got inserted.

This makes it look like your list just jumped 50 or 100 records. I believe TranscriptMode set to normal is not the solution. The listview needs to function as a normal listview and you need to programmatically scroll to the bottom of the list to simulate the TranscriptMode as it functions under "normal".