Android - NestedScrollView which contains ExpandableListView doesn't scroll when expanded

Question

I have an ExpandableListView inside a NestedScrollView (yes I know, it is not good to have a scrolling view inside another scrolling view but I don't know what else to do, please do tell me if anybody knows a better approach).

The size of the content in NestedScrollView is still within the screen so it won't scroll, but when ExpandableListView is expanded, the content will leak outside the screen but the NestedScrollView still won't scroll.. Why is this so?

Here's my NestedScrollView layout :

<NestedScrollView>
    <LinearLayout>
        <LinearLayout></LinearLayout>
        ... // About 3 of the LinearLayouts
        <ExpandableListView/>
    </LinearLayout>
</NestedScrollView>

Answer 1

You can use NonScrollExpandableListView you can achieve non-scroll property of any Lisview or GridView or ExpandableListView by overriding following method.

@Override
public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    int heightMeasureSpec_custom = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(
            Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec_custom);
    ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
    params.height = getMeasuredHeight();
} 

So for using NonScrollExpandableListView you need to make one custom class.

public class NonScrollExpandableListView extends ExpandableListView {

    public NonScrollExpandableListView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public NonScrollExpandableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public NonScrollExpandableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        int heightMeasureSpec_custom = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(
                Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec_custom);
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
        params.height = getMeasuredHeight();
    }
}

And use it like.

<com.example.extraclasses.NonScrollExpandableListView 

    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> 

Happy coding.