Android scrollview autoscrolling as text is added

android textview scrollview autoscroll
AndroidHopeful picture AndroidHopeful · Mar 7, 2011 · Viewed 31k times · Source

I have a scrollview containing a textview in an Android app. This textview will have text appended to it continuously at set intervals. Scrolling works and the text adds just fine, but what I'd like to do is have the scrollview autoscroll down as text is added. As new text is appended at the bottom, it automatically scrolls down to match and old text is pushed out of sight at the top. What would be even better is to add text to the bottom of the scrollview and have it push older text upward, but one thing at a time.

Answer

papaiatis picture papaiatis · Jul 6, 2011 
<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:fillViewport="true"
    >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/statusText"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
</ScrollView>

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