Nesting ListView in ScrollView - A subtle clarification

Question

I've read many posts indicating how a ListView should not be nested within ScrollView.

I was wondering if this applies to all AdapterView's in general ?

It'd be helpful to know before finding out after writing a whole bunch of code for a custom list view that will be nested in a ScrollView. I want to base it on an AdapterView so that I can use it similarly to a standard ListView (to help minimize re-write of my current ListView related code).

Thank you.

Answer 1

I was wondering if this applies to all AdapterView's in general ?

On the whole, ScrollView does not play nice with the other kids.

It'd be helpful to know before finding out after writing a whole bunch of code for a custom list view that will be nested in a ScrollView.

There is no need to put a ListView in a ScrollView. Just put the other stuff from the ScrollView into the ListView itself, either as header/footer views, or using my MergeAdapter, or similar techniques.

I want to base it on an AdapterView so that I can use it similarly to a standard ListView

Creating a custom AdapterView from scratch is not easy. If you look at the source for ListView, and its AbsListView immediate parent, there are several thousand lines of code. It would be much simpler to just put the contents of the ScrollView into the ListView, per my preceding paragraph.