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Making an activity scrollable

A typical question when someone is beginning with Android is how to add scroll to an activity, or a component of the interface. It has a really simple solution. You just have to add a ScrollView tag above the element you want to scroll.

It´s important to note that ScrollView tag supports just one child. It uses to be a layout that contains the rest of the components.

Therefore, if we want to make scroll over the entire interface of an activity, we have to write something like this:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
        <!-- your components -->
    </RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>

If we want to apply scroll to a concrete group of components, we also can do it. This is the structure of configuration activity in Match Pairs Battle, which lets ad at the top, a button at the bottom, and allows scroll over the options.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/adLayout"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >
    </LinearLayout>

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/options_layout"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/adLayout"
        android:layout_above="@+id/playButton" >
        
        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
            <!-- your components -->
        </RelativeLayout>
    </ScrollView>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/playButton"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
         />

</RelativeLayout>

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