How to check if a my ListView has scrollable number of items?

Question

How do you know if your ListView has enough number of items so that it can scroll?

For instance, If I have 5 items on my ListView all of it will be displayed on a si

Answer 1

This is how i used to check

if (listView.getAdapter() != null
                    && listView.getLastVisiblePosition() == listView.getAdapter().getCount() - 1
                    && listView.getChildAt(listView.getChildCount() - 1).getBottom() == listView.getBottom())

if it gives true, then list is at the bottom

Answer 2

 boolean listBiggerThanWindow = appHeight - 50 <= mListView.getHeight();

            Toast.makeText(HomeActivity.this, "list view bigger that window? " + listBiggerThanWindow, Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
                    .show();

            if (listBiggerThanWindow) {
                // do your thing here...
               }

you can get dimensions in onCreate() by calling post(Runnable) on View.

Answer 3

As per my comment on Mike Ortiz' answer, I believe his answer is wrong:

getChildAt() only counts the children that are visible on screen. Meanwhile, getLastVisiblePosition returns the index based on the Adapter. So if the lastVisiblePosition is 8 because it's the 9th item in the list and there are only 4 visible items on screen, you're gonna get a crash. Verify it by calling getChildCount() and see. The indices for getChildAt are not the same as the indices for the data set. Check this out: ListView getChildAt returning null for visible children

Here's my solution:

public boolean isScrollable() {
        int last = listView.getChildCount()-1; //last visible listitem view
        if (listView.getChildAt(last).getBottom()>listView.getHeight() || listView.getChildAt(0).getTop()<0) { //either the first visible list item is cutoff or the last is cutoff
                return true;
        }
        else{
            if (listView.getChildCount()==listView.getCount()) { //all visible listitem views are all the items there are (nowhere to scroll)
                return false;
            }
            else{ //no listitem views are cut off but there are other listitem views to scroll to
                return true;
            }
        }
    }

Answer 4

Diegosan's answer cannot differentiate when the last item is partially visible on the screen. Here is a solution to that problem.

First, the ListView must be rendered on the screen before we can check if its content is scrollable. This can be done with a ViewTreeObserver:

ViewTreeObserver observer = listView.getViewTreeObserver();
    observer.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {

        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            if (willMyListScroll()) {
                 // Do something
            } 
        }
    });

And here is willMyListScroll():

boolean willMyListScroll() {   
    int pos = listView.getLastVisiblePosition();
    if (listView.getChildAt(pos).getBottom() > listView.getHeight()) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 5

This is the code I wrote for showing a picture after the last row of the listview:

public class ShowTheEndListview
{
    private ImageView the_end_view;
    private TabbedFragRootLayout main_layout;
    private ListView listView;
    private float pas;
    private float the_end_img_height;
    private int has_scroll = -1;

    public ShowTheEndListview(float height)
    {
        the_end_img_height = height;
        pas = 100 / the_end_img_height;
    }

    public void setData(ImageView the_end_view, TabbedFragRootLayout main_layout, ListView listView)
    {
        this.the_end_view = the_end_view;
        this.main_layout = main_layout;
        this.listView = listView;
    }

    public void onScroll(int totalItemCount)
    {
        if(totalItemCount - 1 == listView.getLastVisiblePosition())
        {
            int pos = totalItemCount - listView.getFirstVisiblePosition() - 1;
            View last_item = listView.getChildAt(pos);

            if (last_item != null)
            {
                if(listHasScroll(last_item))
                {
//                        Log.e(TAG, "listHasScroll TRUE");
                }
                else
                {
//                        Log.e(TAG, "listHasScroll FALSE");
                }
            }
        }
    }

    private boolean listHasScroll(View last_item)
    {
        if(-1 == has_scroll)
        {
            has_scroll = last_item.getBottom() > (main_layout.getBottom() - the_end_img_height - 5) ? 1 : 0;
        }

        return has_scroll == 1;
    }

    public void resetHasScroll()
    {
        has_scroll = -1;
    }
}

Answer 6

AbsListView includes this:

/**
 * Check if the items in the list can be scrolled in a certain direction.
 *
 * @param direction Negative to check scrolling up, positive to check scrolling down.
 * @return true if the list can be scrolled in the specified direction, false otherwise.
 * @see #scrollListBy(int)
 */
public boolean canScrollList(int direction);

You need to override layoutChildren() and use it within that:

@Override
protected void layoutChildren() {
    super.layoutChildren();
    isAtBottom = !canScrollList(1);
    isAtTop = !canScrollList(-1);
}