How to Programmatically Scroll a ScrollView to Bottom

Question

I've a problem I can't solve: inside a ScrollView I only have a LinearLayout. By a user action I'm programmatically adding 2 TextView on this LinearLayout, but by the default the scroll keeps on the top. Since I controll the user action, I should be easy to scroll to the bottom with something like:

ScrollView scroll = (ScrollView) this.findViewById(R.id.scroll);
scroll.scrollTo(0, scroll.getBottom());

But actually not. Because immediately after adding this two new elements getBottom() still returns the previous two. I tried to refresh the state invoking refreshDrawableState(), but I doesn't work.

Do you have any idea how could I get the actual bottom of a ScrollView after adding some elements?

Answer 1

You need to use the message queue or else it won't work. Try this:

scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        scrollView.fullScroll(ScrollView.FOCUS_DOWN);
    }
});

This is what worked for me.