How to get the current Y offset of a ScrollView

Question

ScrollView has a method for setting the x and y scroll offset, but no method for getting the current offset (all I\'m really interested is the y offset, since ScrollView onl

Answer 1

If you are certain that you should get some value after using getScrollY() or getTop(), try to put those method inside a

yourScroolView.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Current Y is : "+getScrollY,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });

Now it should work. According to my understanding about this method, it will only run after the layout being drawn. That can be one of the reason why you kept getting 0 previously. Hope it helps.