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John McKenzie
John McKenzie

Reputation: 420

Create a ListView like view in a ScrollView Android

So I did some research and testing of using a listview in a scrollview, and as a lot of people may know this is supposedly bad to do, since they both scroll. It also means I can't show the complete listview as it will wrap to be smaller.

I have seen places which re change the height of the listview to fix this problem but again most people say that it isn't preferred.

What I would like to know though is what is the preferred way of making a nonscrollable listview like view? Basically I want the exact same as the listview but obviously non scrolled and the height based on its contents. I would prefer to work with the layout in as much XML as possible, and I would like to be able to send my array list to it to view on screen. Unfortunately either my search skills are quite dull, as I haven't been able to find anywhere that really explains the preferred method so I thought I would ask here.

Thanks for your help.

<>Clarification Information
I thought I would put this here in case it will help, first off I basically want to show an image, with a list of comments (each one has an author and a text) below it, the comments themselves are obtained from an array and can change. I want the whole page to be scrollable though so I can either view more comments or go back up to the image.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 139

Answers (1)

Samuil Yanovski
Samuil Yanovski

Reputation: 2867

Using a RecyclerView and an adapter supporting multiple item types you could make a list which shows an image on top and several comments below it. Generally you'd have to check what item corresponds to each position - in your case on position 0 you have an image and in every other position you'd have a comment. Then in your adapter's onCreateViewHolder and onBindViewHolder you would check the item type and handle them differently.

You could take a look at this answer for a short example. Let me know if you'd need any other details and/ or sample codes to get the idea. :)

Upvotes: 1

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