Questions tagged [android-scrollbar]
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Remove scroll bar track from ScrollView in Android
My Android app has a main WebView (HTML loaded from a local resource) which I want to use the entire width of the screen and be able to make (vertically) scrollable. So I've wrapped the WebView in a ScrollView in my layout XML, but no matter what I…

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Disable scrolling in webview?
Until now I have been an iPhone developer only and now I have decided to give Android a whirl. Something I haven't been able to figure out on Android is how to programmatically prevent scrolling in a WebView?
Something similar to iPhones prevention…

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Scrollbar not showing in RecyclerView
I've got a RecyclerView and would like to have scrollbar showing, when it covers more than one page.
I get no scrollbar at all. Any idea?
My layout:

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Scrollbar color in RecyclerView
How can I change the color of my scrollbar in a recyclerView?
I have the scrollbar but I want to change its color.
My recyclerView is like this:

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How can I change the width/thickness of a scrollbar?
Currently this is my scrollbar.xml file:

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How to make the `scrollbar` appear on the left side?
In an Android ListView, how can I make the scrollbar appear on the left side?

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ListView scrollbarStyle with margin/padding
Hopefully a simple one.
v4.0.3
I have a ListView and want to leave a margin of 10dip right and left.
The content is easy of course, but I want the divider line to have a 10dip margin right and left too.
If I add android:PaddingRight or…

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Is there a way to make Recyclerview Scrollbar thumb of fixed height?
I don't want my custom scrollbar thumb to grow and shrink with the list size. While it worked with ListView and GridView, I can't find any way of doing it with RecyclerView.
I could find fast scrollers for linear layout but they are not working…

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Change RecyclerView scrollBar width

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horizontalscrollview's fillviewport disables scrolling?
I have this layout, and it's scaled weirdly (probably due to inadviseable layout nesting) if I do not use fillviewport=true in my HorizontalScrollView.
Everything works peachy (except for the odd scaling) when fillviewport=false, but when…

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Scrollbar on Top Side in Horizontal RecyclerView
I am working on the Simple demo of Horizontal RecyclerView.
I want to display scrollbar along with the recyclerview. So I have added android:scrollbars="horizontal" and android:scrollbarSize="5dp" in XML.
I am able to get the Scrollbar but it is…

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How to handle the fast-scroller on Lollipop 5.1?
Background
I've made a tiny library, which shows how to mimic the style of the stock contacts app of Android Lollipop, here.
The problem
It seems that on Android 5.1 , the fast scroller looks very different than the previous one, and it's too close…

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Is it possible to disable all scrolling and zooming in an android webview?
I tried to find an answer but have thus far failed.
I have an activity that uses a WebView. Everything that is displayed to the user is rendered in HTML and JavaScript. That is, the WebView takes all the screen it can. The APK is used for storing…

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Modify fast scroll alphabetical bubble
I am trying to change the bubble containing the letter in the scrollbar.
What is its official name BTW ?
I am not talking about the fastScrollThumbDrawable or fastScrollTrackDrawable on the right side. See the image below.
How to change the color…

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Styling the scrollbar thumb
I'm trying to change the outlook of the scrollbar thumb for a ListView.
I added the following property to the listview:
android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@drawable/scrollbar_vertical_thumb"
scrollbar_vertical_thumb.xml:

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