ViewPager inside a ScrollView does not scroll correclty

Question

I have a 'page' that has a number of components on it, and who's content is longer than the height of the device. Fine, just put all of the layout (the entire page) inside a ScrollView, no problem.

One of the components is a ViewPager. This renders correctly, but the response to a swipe/fling is not performing correctly, it is jittery and doesn't always work. It seems to be getting 'confused' with the ScrollView, so only works 100% when you fling in an exact horizontal line.

If I remove the ScrollView, the ViewPager responds perfectly.

I've had a search around and have not found this as a known defect. Has anyone else experienced this?

• Platform Version: 1.6
• Compatibility Library v4.
• Device: HTC Incredible S

Below is some example code for you to test with, comment out ScrollView to see it working correctly.

Activity:

package com.ss.activities;

import com.ss.R;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Parcelable;
import android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class PagerInsideScollViewActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        ViewPager vp = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewpager);
        vp.setAdapter(new MyPagerAdapter(this));
    }
}

class MyPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    private Context ctx;

    public MyPagerAdapter(Context context) {
        ctx = context;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 2;
    }

    @Override
    public Object instantiateItem(View collection, int position) {

        TextView tv =  new TextView(ctx);
        tv.setTextSize(50);
        tv.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
        tv.setText("SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, " +
                "SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, " +
                "SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, " +
                "SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE, SMILE DUDE");

        ((ViewPager) collection).addView(tv);

        return tv;

    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(View collection, int position, Object view) {
         ((ViewPager) collection).removeView((View) view);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isViewFromObject(View view, Object object) {
        return view == object;
    }

    @Override
    public Parcelable saveState() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void restoreState(Parcelable arg0, ClassLoader arg1) {
    }

    @Override
    public void startUpdate(View arg0) {
    }

    @Override
    public void finishUpdate(View arg0) {
    }
}

Layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <ScrollView
         xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical" >

            <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
                android:id="@+id/viewpager"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="300dp" />

        </LinearLayout>

    </ScrollView>

Answer 1

Further reading has revealed that there are issues with scrolling components inside scrolling components.

One solution is to 'disable' the vertical scrolling of the ScrollView on the area of the contained scrollable component, in my case a ViewPager.

The code for this solution is detailed here (and its simply brilliant!)