Question

I have a ScrollView on top of another view(with Buttons). The ScrollView is taking the whole screen and is obscuring the view that is beneath it.

At some point in my app I need the ScrollView to be disabled (but still visible) and transfer all the touch events to the Buttons that are beneath the ScrollView. How can I do that? Some views like Buttons are automatically doing that when disabled but a ScrollView is not doing that.

Answer 1

Try to implement your own ScrollView which has a flag to indicate the status(disabled/enabled) and also overrides the onTouchEvent and dispatchTouchEvent to let the touch events get pass the ScrollView. Here is an example:

public class DisabledScrollView extends ScrollView {

    private boolean mIsDisable = false;

    // if status is true, disable the ScrollView
    public void setDisableStatus(boolean status) {
        mIsDisable = status;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        // no more tocuh events for this ScrollView
        if (mIsDisable) {
            return false;
        }       
        return super.onTouchEvent(ev);
    }

    public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        // although the ScrollView doesn't get touch events , its children will get them so intercept them.
        if (mIsDisable) {
            return false;
        }
        return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
    }

}

Then all you have to do is change the value of that flag. See if it works.