Scroll TextView to text position

Question

I want to scroll my TextView to make visible a specific position in the text. How can I do that? I tried bringPointIntoView (int offset) but without success.

Source

Answer 1

Does adding a movement method to the text view solve the problem?

textView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

Answer 2

Just FYI for anyone else with the same problem, on a listView with large listItems, the overloaded bringPointIntoView can be passed a ListView instead of a ScrollView and use the ScrollTo method instead of smoothScrollTo.

Answer 3

For those who have the same problem, I finally made my own implementation of bringPointIntoView:

  public static void bringPointIntoView (TextView textView,
  ScrollView scrollView, int offset)
  {
    int line = textView.getLayout ().getLineForOffset (offset);
    int y = (int) ((line + 0.5) * textView.getLineHeight ());
    scrollView.smoothScrollTo (0, y - scrollView.getHeight () / 2);
  }

Don't hesitate if you have a better solution.