Why is my listview not scrolling?

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<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#dad4c8"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal">
    <include
        android:id="@+id/title_bar"
        layout="@layout/title_bar" />
    <EditText
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/title_bar"
        android:id="@+id/txt"
        android:hint="Song title" />

    <ListView
        android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/txt"
        android:id="@+id/list" />

</RelativeLayout>

Try changing the layout_height on your ListView to fill_parent instead of wrap_content — hooked82, Aug 26 '11 at 21:31

Kurru · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-26T22:15:43.470

Use a LinearLayout and set the ListView's Height to 0dip and give it layout_weight="1"

This will make it autofill any remaining space, causing the internal items of the list view to scroll. Currently the listview is very tall and is being clipped by the bounds of the screen.

Edit

Something like this:

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#dad4c8"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal">
    <include
        android:id="@+id/title_bar"
        layout="@layout/title_bar" />
    <EditText
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/txt"
        android:hint="Song title" />

    <ListView
        android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dip"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:id="@+id/list" />

</LinearLayout>

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '13 at 14:55

For the benefit of the community, I'll paste what did not work for me and what worked. This is the only post that helped fix the problem, others were just a lecture. Thanks to @Kurru

I have tried to reduce the crap. The areas to focus on are android:layout_height android:layout_weight.

Did not work

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <View
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"/>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content />
    </LinearLayout>

    <ListView
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollbarSize="3dp"
        android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay"
        android:scrollbars="vertical"
        android:scrollingCache="true"
        android:smoothScrollbar="true" />
</LinearLayout>

Worked

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <View
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    </LinearLayout>

    <ListView
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:scrollbarSize="3dp"
        android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay"
        android:scrollbars="vertical"
        android:scrollingCache="true"
        android:smoothScrollbar="true" />
</LinearLayout>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 01 '19 at 18:19

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Those who still looking for the answer please visit this link you just need to do this inchild scroll view by adding android:nestedScrollingEnabled="true" to its XML declaration or by explicitly calling setNestedScrollingEnabled(true).

answered May 01 '19 at 18:19

Omar Sohel

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '21 at 13:51

I think listview can scroll by default, use three fingers to swipe the virtual device. I do nothing with my listview and it can scroll. I drag ListView under design mode.

<ListView
        android:id="@+id/lv_retrieve_firebase"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="287dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="1dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="1dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/tw_login_email"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/btn_submit_to_firebase" />

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 14 '22 at 08:58

The problem I was facing was I added a "ListView" in "ConstraintLayout". For that, my ListView was neither showing properly nor scrolling properly.

I found the solution by wrapping a LinearLayout with ListView.

Previously I was using:

Then The Solution was like:

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 21 '22 at 18:41

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For me :

nestedScrollingEnabled = true

edited Nov 21 '22 at 18:41

apollosoftware.org

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answered Nov 18 '22 at 10:38

Andi Malaj

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score -2 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 26 '11 at 21:35

You should add the property android:scrollbars with the value vertical on your ListView to add the scrollbar in your listView:

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#dad4c8"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal">
    <include
        android:id="@+id/title_bar"
        layout="@layout/title_bar" />
    <EditText
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/title_bar"
        android:id="@+id/txt"
        android:hint="Song title" />

    <ListView
        android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/txt"
        android:id="@+id/list" 
        android:scrollbars="vertical"/>

</RelativeLayout>

it has nothing to do with scrollbars – Nayanesh Gupte Aug 21 '13 at 13:23 — Nayanesh Gupte, Aug 21 '13 at 13:23

Why is my listview not scrolling?

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