Do you know if it is possible to know if an Android Widget ScrollView can scroll? If it has enough space it doesn't need to scroll, but as soon as a dimension exceeds a maximum value the widget can scroll.
I don't see in the reference a method who can give this information. Maybe is it possible to do something with the size of the linearlayout inside the scrollview?
I used the following code inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/a/18574328/3439686 and it works!
ScrollView scrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.scrollView); int childHeight = ((LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.scrollContent)).getHeight(); boolean isScrollable = scrollView.getHeight() < childHeight + scrollView.getPaddingTop() + scrollView.getPaddingBottom(); 
Thanks to: @johanvs and https://stackoverflow.com/a/18574328/3439686
private boolean canScroll(HorizontalScrollView horizontalScrollView) { View child = (View) horizontalScrollView.getChildAt(0); if (child != null) { int childWidth = (child).getWidth(); return horizontalScrollView.getWidth() < childWidth + horizontalScrollView.getPaddingLeft() + horizontalScrollView.getPaddingRight(); } return false; } private boolean canScroll(ScrollView scrollView) { View child = (View) scrollView.getChildAt(0); if (child != null) { int childHeight = (child).getHeight(); return scrollView.getHeight() < childHeight + scrollView.getPaddingTop() + scrollView.getPaddingBottom(); } return false; } In addition to @johanvs response:
You should wait for view beign displayed
final ScrollView scrollView = (ScrollView) v.findViewById(R.id.scrollView); ViewTreeObserver viewTreeObserver = scrollView.getViewTreeObserver(); viewTreeObserver.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() { @Override public void onGlobalLayout() { scrollView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this); int childHeight = ((LinearLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.dataContent)).getHeight(); boolean isScrollable = scrollView.getHeight() < childHeight + scrollView.getPaddingTop() + scrollView.getPaddingBottom(); if (isScrollable) { //Urrah! is scrollable } } });