Question

I’m running into a bit of a problem. What I’m doing: I’ve got a ListView which has got some images in it. To make the scrolling smoother I’ve disabled the images to show up when scrolling. Now there seems to be a bug in Android which sometimes causes the scroll state to not change back from SCROLL_STATE_FLING back to SCROLL_STATE_IDLE, which causes my images to not show up again.

My first thought was to set an onTouchListener and check when I get ACTION_UP, but that doesn’t help because the SCROLL_STATE_FLING state is obviously being set after that. So now I’ve thought I could start a timer when the SCROLL_STATE_FLING state is being set and check after some time if the state is still in fling mode and then invalidate my view. But I don’t think that’s a very good solution.

Does anyone have a better idea on how I could do that? I’ve seen this reply but I need a solution for API level < 9 (plus it also sometimes happen when it’s not overscrolling)

Here’s my code for that:

    mList.setOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {

        @Override
        public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
            mListAdapter.setIsScrolling(scrollState != SCROLL_STATE_IDLE);
            Log.i(this, "scrollStateChanged" + scrollState);
            if (scrollState == SCROLL_STATE_IDLE) {
                mList.invalidateViews();
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
        }
    });

Thanks,
Maria

Answer 1

I had the same problem, so my solution was to just detect if the scrollview position has reached the last page and in that case always load the images regardless of the scroll state (since the problem seems to always occur when the user flings to the end of the listview). So modifying your code you would have:

mList.setOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {

    @Override
    public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
        mListAdapter.setIsScrolling(scrollState != SCROLL_STATE_IDLE);
        Log.i(this, "scrollStateChanged" + scrollState);

        int first = view.getFirstVisiblePosition();
        int count = view.getChildCount();

        if (scrollState == SCROLL_STATE_IDLE || (first + count > mListAdapter.getCount()) ) {
            mList.invalidateViews();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
    }
});