Question

I would like to take an existing ScrollView with a view in it, and add more views, dynamically (at runtime) to the ScrollView container.

Is it possible to add these views without having to create a new layout and inflate it? If so, what’s the general process for adding these views dynamically?

For the sake of this question, assume the views are TextView…

Thanks!

Answer 1

A ScrollView can only have one child, so it doesn’t make sense to add more children to it directly. Lets say your ScrollView has a LinearLayout inside of it, then you can add more views to the LinearLayout:

LinearLayout layout = findViewById(R.id.my_linear_layout);
TextView textView = new TextView(this);
layout.addView(textView);