How to show scrollbars on a TextView programmatically

Question

I have searched and searched to find an answer to how to add a vertical (or horizontal) scrollbar to a TextView without having to use the XML just to add the line: android:scrollbars="vertical".

There has to be a way to do this programmatically that doesn't require sticking this within another ScrollView.

I've just found out how and because I am way to excited about this and want to help anyone else who is stuck with the same question, here it is:

Answer 1

Rusian Yanchyshyn, posted the key in his answer at Android: Enable Scrollbars on Canvas-Based View

With the help of an anonmous class & an initializer block we can now do the following:

            TextView textViewWithScrollBars = new TextView(context)
            {
                {
                    setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true);
                    setMovementMethod(ScrollingMovementMethod.getInstance());
                    setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_INSET);

                    // Force scrollbars to be displayed.
                    TypedArray a = this.getContext().getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(new int[0]);
                    initializeScrollbars(a);
                    a.recycle();                        
                }
            }