Hide scrollbar in ScrollView

Question

I have an app with a ScrollView, and I don't want the scrollbar to appear on the screen. How can I hide the scrollbar in a ScrollView while making sure scrolling still works?

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Possible duplicate of Remove scroll bar track from ScrollView in Android — Erick Petrucelli
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live-love · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-07 22:58:06Z

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In Java add this code:

myScrollView.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(false); myScrollView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);

In XML add following attribute to your ScrollView:

android:scrollbars="none"

Like this:

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:id="@+id/mainScroll" android:scrollbars="none" <!-- line to be added --> >

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Nikunj Patel Over a year ago

can you tell me how can i handle onScrollChanged event?

Umar Qureshi Over a year ago

See this question it may help. stackoverflow.com/questions/4263053/…

ergunkocak Over a year ago

scroll functionality does NOT work with this solution

asim Over a year ago

android:scrollbarSize="0dp"

tiagocarvalho92 Over a year ago

Using scrollbars="none" doesn't allow the user to scroll sometimes

Kishor N R · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-23 05:38:51Z

This will hide the Scroll bar stick but scroll bar is not disable

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@null" android:scrollbarThumbHorizontal="@null"

This will disable the scroll bar

android:scrollbars="none"

android:scrollbars="none" does not disable scrollbars.you can scroll but just hides ` scrollview stick`

Talha Ahmed Khan · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-05 07:13:27Z

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In XML set android:scrollbars="none"

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Nikunj Patel Over a year ago

can you tell me how can i handle onScrollChanged event?

ergunkocak Over a year ago

scroll functionality does NOT work with this solution

tiagocarvalho92 Over a year ago

Do you know why this makes the view NOT scrollable?

User · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-07 12:18:33Z

Try this, it is also working...

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@null"

or

android:scrollbarThumbHorizontal="@null"

user1506104 · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-17 07:28:08Z

In my experience,

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@null"

can cause NullPointerException in older devices. Use this instead:

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@android:color/transparent"

Cheers!

Shubham Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-08 11:26:16Z

you have to try the following solutions

 android:scrollbars="none"

OR

 android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@null" android:scrollbarThumbHorizontal="@null"

OR Change color of scrollBars to hide them

 android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@android:color/transparent"

Zoe - Save the data dump · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-03 14:52:22Z

For hiding a vertical scrollbar, do this in the XML:

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@null"

And for Hiding horizontal scrollbar do this :

android:scrollbarThumbHorizontal="@null"

The above lines of codes will work if you want to hide the scrollbar without disabling it.

And for disabling a scrollbar, write this:

android:scrollbars="none"

Zoe - Save the data dump · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-03 14:51:38Z

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In the XML layout, add this property:

android:scrollbarSize="0dp"

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Matej Vukosav · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-10 19:56:28Z

Now the scroll does not work anymore if u set android:scrollbars="none"

I have solved the problem with

 android:scrollbars="vertical" // or horizontal

and setting its size to 0 dp

 android:scrollbarSize="0dp"

Gibolt · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-28 20:51:55Z

Kotlin Solution

If you need to do this programmatically, you can set either one or both of:

scrollView.isHorizontalScrollBarEnabled = false scrollView.isVerticalScrollBarEnabled = false

If you'll be applying both regularly, try adding this extension

fun ScrollView.noScrollbars() { isHorizontalScrollBarEnabled = false isVerticalScrollBarEnabled = false }

To easily allow switching, you can add an optional boolean

fun ScrollView.noScrollbars(hide: Boolean = true) { isHorizontalScrollBarEnabled = !hide isVerticalScrollBarEnabled = !hide }

saintjab · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-07 11:59:28Z

If you are making "custom" HorizontalScrollView then you should set those properties in code like so

this.scrollBarSize = 0 this.isHorizontalScrollBarEnabled = false

That is the only way I got mine to work.

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