Wait unitl ListView's smoothScrollToPosition() finishes

Question

Scope

I need to scroll to certain position smoothly and then "jump" to another position with setSelection(anotherPosition). This is done to c

Answer 1

Another way is to add an OnScrollListener.

private final int scrollableItems = 20;

int firstVisiblePosition = mListView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
if (firstVisiblePosition < scrollableItems) {
    mListView.smoothScrollToPosition(0);
} else {

    mListView.setOnScrollListener(new AbsListView.OnScrollListener() {
      @Override
      public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView absListView, int i) {
        if (i == SCROLL_STATE_IDLE) {
          mListView.setSelection(0);
           }
      }
   })

   mListView.smoothScrollToPosition(firstVisiblePosition - scrollableItems);
}
mListView.clearFocus();