Question

have EditText widget along with some widgets placed in ScrollView.

I have set the property of EditText with android:scrollbars = “vertical” to enable vertical scrolling inside editText.

Now when i launched the activity, editText has focus and it shows vertical scrollbars for some seconds.

The issue here is when i try to scroll within EditText, ScrollView moves.

How to enable scrolling within EditText and not within scrollview.

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/main"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"            
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical" >
        .
        .
        .
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/smset"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:gravity="top|left"
            android:height="100dip"
            android:inputType="textMultiLine" >
        </EditText>
        .
        .
        .
   </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Answer 1

You can’t place something that can scroll inside something that scrolls, too.

Android can’t say for sure which element you want to be scrolling when you touch the screen so it isn’t supported at all. (ignoring some hacks which are pretty bad practice).