Scroll a ListView by pixels in Android

Question

I want to scroll the a ListView in Android by number of pixels. For example I want to scroll the list 10 pixels down (so that the first item on the list has its top

Answer 1

If you look at the source for the scrollListBy() method added in api 19 you will see that you can use the package scoped trackMotionScroll method.

public class FutureListView {

    private final ListView mView;

    public FutureListView(ListView view) {
        mView = view;
    }

    /**
     * Scrolls the list items within the view by a specified number of pixels.
     *
     * @param y the amount of pixels to scroll by vertically
     */
    public void scrollListBy(int y) {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
            mView.scrollListBy(y);
        } else {
            // scrollListBy just calls trackMotionScroll
            trackMotionScroll(-y, -y);
        }
    }

    private void trackMotionScroll(int deltaY, int incrementalDeltaY) {
        try {
            Method method = AbsListView.class.getDeclaredMethod("trackMotionScroll", int.class, int.class);
            method.setAccessible(true);
            method.invoke(mView, deltaY, incrementalDeltaY);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            throw new RuntimeException(ex);
        };
    }
}