How to make android listview scrollable?

Question

I have two listviews, but they don\'t scroll. How do I correct this?

Here is my layout.xml

Answer 1

You shouldn't put a ListView inside a ScrollView because the ListView class implements its own scrolling and it just doesn't receive gestures because they all are handled by the parent ScrollView

Answer 2

Putting ListView inside a ScrollView is never inspired. But if you want your posted XML-like behavior, there're 3 options to me:

1. Remove ScrollView: Removing your ScrollView, you may give the ListViews some specific size with respect to the total layout (either specific dp or layout_weight).

2. Replace ListViews with LinearLayouts: You may add the list-items by iterating through the item-list and add each item-view to the respective LinearLayout by inflating the view & setting the respective data (string, image etc.)

3. If you really need to put your ListViews inside the ScrollView, you must make your ListViews non-scrollable (Which is practically the same as the solution 2 above, but with ListView codes), otherwise the layout won't function as you expect.
   To make a ListView non-scrollable, you may read this SO post, where the precise solution to me is like the one below:

listView.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
  public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    return (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE);
  }
});

Answer 3

By default ListView is scrollable. Do not put ScrollView to the ListView

Answer 4

Practically its not good to do. But if you want to do like this, just make listview's height fixed to wrap_content.

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

Answer 5

Listview so have inbuild scrolling capabilities. So you can not use listview inside scrollview. Encapsulate it in any other layout like LinearLayout or RelativeLayout.

Answer 6

Never put ListView in ScrollView. ListView itself is scrollable.