How to always show scrollbar

Question

The scrollbar in my scrollview is only visible when I start scrolling. How can I always show it?

Answer 1

Setting the android:scrollbarFadeDuration="0" will do the trick.

Answer 2

As of now the best way is to use android:fadeScrollbars="false" in xml which is equivalent to ScrollView.setScrollbarFadingEnabled(false); in java code.

Answer 3

Simple and easy. Add this attribute to the ScrollBar:

android:fadeScrollbars="false"

Or you can do this in java:

scrollView.setScrollbarFadingEnabled(false);

Or in kotlin:

scrollView.isScrollbarFadingEnabled = false

Answer 4

Setting this will do the trick. Change the @drwable for own style.

android:scrollbars="vertical"
            android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack="true"
            android:fadeScrollbars="false"
            android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@drawable/scroll"`

Answer 5

setVertical* helped to make vertical scrollbar always visible programmatically

scrollView.setScrollbarFadingEnabled(false);
scrollView.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true);
scrollView.setVerticalFadingEdgeEnabled(false);

Answer 6

I had the same problem. The bar had the same background color. Try:

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@android:color/black"