Android: how to check if a View inside of ScrollView is visible?

Question

I have a ScrollView which holds a series of Views. I would like to be able to determine if a view is currently visible (if any part of it is curre

Answer 1

This extension help detect view fully visible.
It also work if your View is a child of child of ... of ScrollView (eg: ScrollView -> LinearLayout -> ContraintLayout -> ... -> YourView).

fun ScrollView.isViewVisible(view: View): Boolean {
    val scrollBounds = Rect()
    this.getDrawingRect(scrollBounds)
    var top = 0f
    var temp = view
    while (temp !is ScrollView){
        top += (temp).y
        temp = temp.parent as View
    }
    val bottom = top + view.height
    return scrollBounds.top < top && scrollBounds.bottom > bottom
}

Note

1) view.getY() and view.getX() return the x,y value to FIRST PARENT.

2) Here is example about how getDrawingRect will return Link