ensure visible on android listview?

Question

Is there a way that I can makle sure a given item in an android listview is entirely visible?

I\'d like to be able to programmatically scroll to a specific item, lik

Answer 1

I believe what you are looking for is ListView.setSelectionFromTop() (although I'm a bit late to the party).

Answer 2

Recently I met the same problem, paste my solution here in case someone need it (I was trying to make the entire last visible item visible):

    if (mListView != null) {
        int firstVisible = mListView.getFirstVisiblePosition()
                - mListView.getHeaderViewsCount();
        int lastVisible = mListView.getLastVisiblePosition()
                - mListView.getHeaderViewsCount();

        View child = mListView.getChildAt(lastVisible
                - firstVisible);
        int offset = child.getTop() + child.getMeasuredHeight()
                - mListView.getMeasuredHeight();
        if (offset > 0) {
            mListView.smoothScrollBy(offset, 200);
        }
    }

Answer 3

Try it:

public static void ensureVisible(ListView listView, int pos)
{
    if (listView == null)
    {
        return;
    }

    if(pos < 0 || pos >= listView.getCount())
    {
        return;
    }

    int first = listView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
    int last = listView.getLastVisiblePosition();

    if (pos < first)
    {
        listView.setSelection(pos);
        return;
    }

    if (pos >= last)
    {
        listView.setSelection(1 + pos - (last - first));
        return;
    }
}

Answer 4

I have a shorter and, in my opinion, better solution to do this : ListView requestChildRectangleOnScreen method is designed for it.

The answer above ensures that the item will be displayed, but sometimes it will be displayed partly (ie. when it is at the bottom of the screen). The code below ensures that the whole item will be displayed and that the view will scroll only the necessary zone :

    private void ensureVisible(ListView parent, View view) {
    Rect rect = new Rect(view.getLeft(), view.getTop(), view.getRight(), view.getBottom());
    parent.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(view, rect, false);
}

Answer 5

ListView.setSelection() will scroll the list so that the desired item is within the viewport.