Android: Listview inside ScrollView

Question

I want to have a layout that can scroll and a listview inside it. The listview will expand it\'s height base on how many items in it. Only the ScrollView outside is scrollable.

Answer 1

Actually, it is possible to put a ListView inside of an ScrollView. In some use cases (e.g. dynamic menus/submenus it's a reasonable solution). However, two caveats apply:

• The ListView won't have scroll. In general, nested scrolling is not possible in Android. There are some hacks to make it work (mostly by using requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent()) but it's hard to make them work correctly in all cases.
• As a consequence, you must indicate the exact height the ListView needs to show all items (via its appropriate LayoutParams). Setting WRAP_CONTENT will not work.