Question

I am splitting the screen with 2 linear layouts containing text view and this may contain large number of lines hence using scrolls but the first we lines are scrapped off and cannot view it.

Following is a code snippet

  <LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/ScrollView01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/question"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:text="Question"
            android:textSize="20dp" >
        </TextView>
    </ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="250dp"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

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

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/answer"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:text="Answer"
            android:textSize="20dp"
            android:visibility="invisible" >
        </TextView>
    </ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

Rather than going for two seperate ScrollViews you can always opt out for few properties setting in your layout.

Set the android:maxLines and android:scrollbars = "vertical" property for both the textview’s and then in your corresponding activity do this for both the textview’s

TextView textDisplayed =(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1); 
textDisplayed.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

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