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AndroidHopeful

Reputation: 269

Android scrollview autoscrolling as text is added

I have a scrollview containing a textview in an Android app. This textview will have text appended to it continuously at set intervals. Scrolling works and the text adds just fine, but what I'd like to do is have the scrollview autoscroll down as text is added. As new text is appended at the bottom, it automatically scrolls down to match and old text is pushed out of sight at the top. What would be even better is to add text to the bottom of the scrollview and have it push older text upward, but one thing at a time.

Upvotes: 24

Views: 35626

Answers (5)

dilix
dilix

Reputation: 3893

You can simply scroll the whole ScrollView to the bottom when text is added.

textView.append(text);
scrollView.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_DOWN);

As @RaphaelRoyer-Rivard suggested in his comment, you can get more solid result with post:

textView.append(text);
scrollView.post(() -> scrollView.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_DOWN));

Upvotes: 3

kristianlm
kristianlm

Reputation: 1121

If you're looking for a more generic way of auto-scrolling to the bottom of a ScrollView, you could try the snippet below. It has the advantage that you don't need to post a Runnable to make sure you're in the UI thread. It has the disadvantage that I'm not sure what things this could break.

public class AutoScroller extends ScrollView {
    public boolean autoscroll = true;

    public AutoScroller(Context context) {super(context);}
    public AutoScroller(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {super(context,attrs);}
    public AutoScroller(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr){super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);}
    public AutoScroller(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);}


    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        if(autoscroll) {
           scrollTo(getScrollX(), getChildAt(getChildCount()-1).getBottom() - getHeight());
        }
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }
}

Another candidat to override might be onLayout.

Upvotes: 0

Kamarado
Kamarado

Reputation: 411

I've tried the solution with gravity but result was a lot of empty space under actual text when scroll to bottom.

So that is another way. You can place your TextView inside of ScrollView:

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:fillViewport="true" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</ScrollView>

And define addTextChangedListener

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

            //some code here

        ScrollView scrollView1 = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.scrollView1);
        TextView textView1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        textView1.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
            scrollView1.fullScroll(ScrollView.FOCUS_DOWN);
            // you can add a toast or whatever you want here
        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1,
                int arg2, int arg3) {
            //override stub
        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2,
                int arg3) {
            //override stub
        }

    }) }

Actually i noticed right now that the application will scroll every time the text is changed, not just added. However it works just fine for me.

Upvotes: 10

sekhar
sekhar

Reputation: 7

textView.append(text);
scroll.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_DOWN)

this will give problem, it won't scroll upto extreme top, due to android:layout_gravity="bottom"

Upvotes: -1

papaiatis
papaiatis

Reputation: 4291

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:fillViewport="true"
    >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/statusText"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
</ScrollView>

Upvotes: 18

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