I required having a listview inside a scrollview in order to prevent the entire screen from being extremely long. This allows you have to set the number of items displayed on the list, while the rest will be scrolled.
I use the following class in my app and so far it seems to work terrific.
public class NestedListView extends ListView implements OnScrollListener,
OnTouchListener {
private int listViewTouchAction;
private static final int MAXIMUM_LIST_ITEMS_VIEWABLE = 4;
@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
}
@Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem,
int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
if (getAdapter() != null && getAdapter().getCount() > MAXIMUM_LIST_ITEMS_VIEWABLE) {
if (listViewTouchAction == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) {
scrollBy(0, -1);
}
}
}
public NestedListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
listViewTouchAction = -1;
setOnScrollListener(this);
setOnTouchListener(this);
}
@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
int newHeight = 0;
final int heightMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(heightMeasureSpec);
int heightSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
if (heightMode != MeasureSpec.EXACTLY) {
ListAdapter listAdapter = getAdapter();
if (listAdapter != null && !listAdapter.isEmpty()) {
int listPosition = 0;
for (listPosition = 0; listPosition < listAdapter.getCount()
&& listPosition < MAXIMUM_LIST_ITEMS_VIEWABLE; listPosition++) {
View listItem = listAdapter.getView(listPosition, null,
this);
listItem.measure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
newHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight();
}
newHeight += getDividerHeight() * listPosition;
}
if ((heightMode == MeasureSpec.AT_MOST) && (newHeight > heightSize)) {
if (newHeight > heightSize) {
newHeight = heightSize;
}
}
} else {
newHeight = getMeasuredHeight();
}
setMeasuredDimension(getMeasuredWidth(), newHeight);
}
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
listViewTouchAction = event.getAction();
if (getAdapter() != null && getAdapter().getCount() > MAXIMUM_LIST_ITEMS_VIEWABLE) {
if (listViewTouchAction == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) {
scrollBy(0, 1);
}
}
return false;
}
}