If ScrollView only supports one direct child, how am I supposed to make a whole layout scrollable?

Question

I have 3 text views in a layout, where the text clips a tad on the bottom on my droid 2... How can I ensure that the whole text is viewable, and the user can scroll down (si

Answer 1

Just wrap your current LinearLayout with ScrollView. So it should be smth like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <ImageButton ... />
        <TextView ... />
        <TextView ... />
        <TextView ... />

    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Answer 2

Worked perfectly.

Here is my layout as an example of scrolling a content item with two headers above it that stay stationary.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/mainMenu"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#FFFFFFFF"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
>
    <FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/widget112"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    >
        <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/chemo_pro_header"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/chemo_pro_header"
        >
        </ImageView>
        <ImageButton
        android:id="@+id/menu_btn"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/menu_btn_off"
        android:background="@null"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:padding="8px"
        >
        </ImageButton>
    </FrameLayout>
    <ImageView 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:id="@+id/news_head"
    android:src="@drawable/news_head" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    </ImageView>
    <ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
        <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent">
            <TextView android:layout_marginLeft="6dip" android:text="Monday, November 29th, 2010" android:id="@+id/newsDateStamp" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="italic" android:textColor="#ff999999"></TextView>
            <TextView android:layout_marginLeft="6dip" android:text="Normal Article Titles Fit on These Lines and have room to be this long" android:textSize="16sp" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="bold" android:textColor="#ff000000" android:id="@+id/newsTitle" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></TextView>
            <TextView android:layout_marginLeft="6dip" android:text="Article source" android:id="@+id/newsSource" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="italic" android:textColor="#ff999999"></TextView>
            <ImageView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:id="@+id/news_image"
            android:src="@drawable/news_image" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center">
            </ImageView>
            <TextView android:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras in volutpat enim. Donec tempus vestibulum risus in pellentesque. Etiam eget lorem at velit facilisis dapibus.\n\nNunc dolor sem, semper vel vestibulum eu, ultrices tempus augue. Donec ligula erat, tempor dignissim imperdiet et, rutrum sed nisi. Praesent dignissim nulla ullamcorper metus facilisis auctor. Duis elementum commodo dictum. Duis rhoncus hendrerit lectus in tincidunt. Ut est neque, rutrum ut auctor ac, aliquet ut massa. Nullam at felis ipsum. Curabitur adipiscing sodales massa, sed lobortis lectus ultrices quis. Integer lobortis cursus tellus sed tempus. Ut convallis ullamcorper interdum. Integer iaculis feugiat ultricies.\n\nNunc dolor sem, semper vel vestibulum eu, ultrices tempus augue. Donec ligula erat, tempor dignissim imperdiet et, rutrum sed nisi. Praesent dignissim nulla ullamcorper metus facilisis auctor. Duis elementum commodo dictum. Duis rhoncus hendrerit lectus in tincidunt. Ut est neque, rutrum ut auctor ac, aliquet ut massa." android:layout_marginTop="6dip" android:layout_marginBottom="6dip" android:typeface="serif" android:id="@+id/newsBody" android:layout_marginLeft="6dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:textColor="#ff000000" android:layout_marginRight="6dip"></TextView>
    </LinearLayout>
    </ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 3

The direct child of ScrollView should be another layout that supports multiple children, such as RelativeLayout or LinearLayout.

Answer 4

if you want to scroll entire layout just make scrollview the parent and make Linear layout or anyother layout as it's first child and then add other layouts inside that .... example:

<Scrollview>
   <LinearLayout  android:id="@+id/child1">
     <Textview />
     <Textview />
     <Button />
     <LinearLayout>
       <Textview />
     </LinearLayout>
   </LinearLayout>
 </scrollview>

here Scrollview has only one child 'child1' rest all are inside it and hence entire layout is scrollable.