Making LinearLayout with ListView scrollable

Question

I have a linear layout that looks something like this:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/linear_layout"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/white"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".activities.EnrolStudentFormActivity">

    <include
        layout="@layout/app_bar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true" />

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/list_view
        android:layout_width="match_pare
        android:layout_height="wrap_cont
        android:divider="@null"
        android:dividerHeight="0dp" />

</LinearLayout>

With a few ImageViews, TextInputLayouts and TextInputEditTexts in between. I want to make this layout scrollable. I tried to make it scrollable with ScrollView and NestedScrollView, but both of them messed the ListView up.

I am also changing the ListView contents dynamically and I have a few TextInputEditTexts inside TextInputLayouts inside the ListView. Resizing the ListView doesn't help much, and I cannot click on the TextInputEditText inside the ListView. It seems that the ScrollView captures the touch input.

Are there any workarounds that will let me have a ListView inside a ScrollView or make the linear layout scrollable while making the TextInputEditText inside the ListView usable?

Answer 1

Use RecyclerView instead of ListView and add NestedScrollView on top:

<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:android="
http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:http="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">


<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/linear_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/white"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".activities.EnrolStudentFormActivity">

    <include
        layout="@layout/app_bar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true" />

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/list_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:divider="@null"
        android:dividerHeight="0dp" />>

</LinearLayout>

and finally in your code add:

RecyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);