Is there a way to prevent the listview from scrolling to its top position when its adapter's data is changed?

Question

I\'m having a bit of trouble preserving the scroll position of a list view when changing it\'s adapter\'s data.

What I\'m currently doing is to create a custom Array

Answer 1

There is one more use-case I came across recently (Android 8.1) - caused by bug in Android code. If I use mouse-wheel to scroll list view - consecutive adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() resets scroll position to zero. Use this workaround until bug gets fixed in Android

        listView.onTouchModeChanged(true); // workaround
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

More details is here: https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/130103876