How to set selected item of ListView without scrolling the view [Android]

Question

I have a ListView with 10 items in it, when i set the 4th item in the ListView as selected then my ListView gets scrolled and 4th item in the ListView gets placed at the top of the screen.

I don't want to scroll the ListView when i call setSelected() for the list item which is not in the view.

I have also tried to scroll the ListView programmatically using scrollTo(0, 0); but it is not working.

Answer 1

An old question, but it may be useful to somebody. You can use setSelectionFromTop. It's rather smart, and you can use it for example like that:

getListView().setSelectionFromTop(selection, getListView().getHeight() / 2);

It begins to scroll only after middle of the list: