Layout: I have an EditText and 2 RecyclerViews inside a NestedScrollView, which are not visible (visibility=gone)
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
//... toolbar
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior">
<androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView
android:id="@+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginBottom="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:scrollbars="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:backgroundTint="@android:color/transparent"
android:gravity="top"
android:inputType="textMultiLine|textCapSentences"
android:padding="@dimen/activity_margin"
android:singleLine="false" />
<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="@+id/rv_items"
android:padding="@dimen/activity_margin"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:visibility="gone" />
<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="@+id/rv_Labels"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="12dp"
android:visibility="gone" />
</LinearLayout>
</androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
android:id="@+id/coordinator_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:layout_marginBottom="?actionBarSize" />
<com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
//...
/>
</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
The problem: When I enter more text than the height of the screen, the EditText is scrolled down to where the cursor is. But when I try to scroll up, nothing happens. Here's a screen recording I made.
Can't scroll:
- after entering/pasting long text for the 1st time.
Can scroll:
- after reopening the activity with text already entered
- after closing the keyboard
- after closing the keyboard and opening it again
Searching for similar problems yielded:
- EditText not scrollable inside ScrollView
- Enable Scrollable EditText within a ScrollView and ViewFlipper
- ... and other results with the same answer:
...
editText.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
if (v.getId() == R.id.editText) {
v.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true);
switch (event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
v.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(false);
break;
}
}
return false;
}
});
That solution doesn't work:
- The questions are about ScrollViews, not NestedScrollViews. And NestedScrollView is one of the proposed solutions (which I already use)
- When I add the above code, the EditText is sort of scrollable, but only when the keyboard is shown. If it is not, then it's impossible to scroll - trying to scroll causes text to be selected.
- Scrolling (with the keyboard open) moves the cursor.
Please let me know if you need any more info or if I've missed anything. Thank you!
