Question

Is it possible to use long lists of widgets inside RelativeLayout, which in turn is wrapped into ScrollView.

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="800dp"
    android:fillViewport="true" >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="800dp"
         >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/screen_size_label"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="50dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
            android:text="@string/screen_size" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/screen_size_label2"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/screen_size_label"
            android:layout_below="@+id/screen_size_label"
            android:text="@string/screen_size_label" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/screen_size_label3"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/screen_size_label"
            android:layout_below="@+id/screen_size_label2"
            android:text="@string/screen_size_label" />

        // each following child uses android:layout_below="@+id/previous"

When I paste considerable amount of widgets so that the bottom of the screen is achieved the next don’t get placed under the previous ones, as I expected, but instead they try to fit in the screen-box resulting in mess. What I need instead is to place them one under another – so that those that don’t fit into screen-box become accessible through scrolling.

It works fine when I use LinearLayout instead of RellativeLayout, however I’d like to get use of RelativeLayout if it’s possible.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Change the height of Scrollview and RelativeLayout to “fill_parent“