When using scrollTo ListView does not refresh, but when manually scrolling it refreshes

Question

I have different colors for different lines in the ListView, by setting the color of textbox depending on the line number (in getView() of Adapter). Now when I manually scro

Answer 1

ListView#scrollTo doesn't scroll the list contents. (It's a standard View method, and not specific to lists at all: it scrolls the ListView view itself.)

Instead, try using ListView#setSelectionFromTop(0, int y) to scroll.

API 19+ has a ListView#scrollListBy(int y) method if you're programming for KitKat and up.

Answer 2

In our project ListView#setSelectionFromTop(0, int y) does not have any effect. So we hacked this in compat-style:

class Hacks {

static {
    Method trackMotionScroll = null;
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
        try {
            trackMotionScroll = AbsListView.class
                    .getDeclaredMethod("trackMotionScroll", int.class, int.class);
            trackMotionScroll.setAccessible(true);
        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
            Exceptions.crash(e);
        }
    }
    listViewTrackMotionScroll = trackMotionScroll;
}

public static void scrollListBy(ListView listView, int y) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
        listView.scrollListBy(y);
    } else {
        try {
            listViewTrackMotionScroll.invoke(listView, -y, -y);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Exceptions.crash(e);
        }
    }
}
}