Maintain/Save/Restore scroll position when returning to a ListView

Question

I have a long ListView that the user can scroll around before returning to the previous screen. When the user opens this ListView again, I want the

Answer 1

I'm using FirebaseListAdapter and couldn't get any of the solutions to work. I ended up doing this. I'm guessing there are more elegant ways but this is a complete and working solution.

Before onCreate:

private int reset;
private int top;
private int index;

Inside of the FirebaseListAdapter:

@Override
public void onDataChanged() {
     super.onDataChanged();

     // Only do this on first change, when starting
     // activity or coming back to it.
     if(reset == 0) {
          mListView.setSelectionFromTop(index, top);
          reset++;
     }

 }

onStart:

@Override
protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    if(adapter != null) {
        adapter.startListening();
        index = 0;
        top = 0;
        // Get position from SharedPrefs
        SharedPreferences sharedPref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
        top = sharedPref.getInt("TOP_POSITION", 0);
        index = sharedPref.getInt("INDEX_POSITION", 0);
        // Set reset to 0 to allow change to last position
        reset = 0;
    }
}

onStop:

@Override
protected void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    if(adapter != null) {
        adapter.stopListening();
        // Set position
        index = mListView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
        View v = mListView.getChildAt(0);
        top = (v == null) ? 0 : (v.getTop() - mListView.getPaddingTop());
        // Save position to SharedPrefs
        SharedPreferences sharedPref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
        sharedPref.edit().putInt("TOP_POSITION" + "", top).apply();
        sharedPref.edit().putInt("INDEX_POSITION" + "", index).apply();
    }
}

Since I also had to solve this for FirebaseRecyclerAdapter I'm posting the solution here for that too:

Before onCreate:

private int reset;
private int top;
private int index;

Inside of the FirebaseRecyclerAdapter:

@Override
public void onDataChanged() {
    // Only do this on first change, when starting
    // activity or coming back to it.
    if(reset == 0) {
        linearLayoutManager.scrollToPositionWithOffset(index, top);
        reset++;
    }
}

onStart:

@Override
protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    if(adapter != null) {
        adapter.startListening();
        index = 0;
        top = 0;
        // Get position from SharedPrefs
        SharedPreferences sharedPref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
        top = sharedPref.getInt("TOP_POSITION", 0);
        index = sharedPref.getInt("INDEX_POSITION", 0);
        // Set reset to 0 to allow change to last position
        reset = 0;
    }
}

onStop:

@Override
protected void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    if(adapter != null) {
        adapter.stopListening();
        // Set position
        index = linearLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
        View v = linearLayoutManager.getChildAt(0);
        top = (v == null) ? 0 : (v.getTop() - linearLayoutManager.getPaddingTop());
        // Save position to SharedPrefs
        SharedPreferences sharedPref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
        sharedPref.edit().putInt("TOP_POSITION" + "", top).apply();
        sharedPref.edit().putInt("INDEX_POSITION" + "", index).apply();
    }
}