Hide scrollbar in ScrollView

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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 -->
>

edited Mar 7, 2021 at 22:58

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answered Feb 29, 2012 at 6:04

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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

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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"

answered Jun 23, 2016 at 5:38

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MMK Over a year ago

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"

edited Mar 5, 2014 at 7:13

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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

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Try this, it is also working...

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@null"

or

android:scrollbarThumbHorizontal="@null"

answered Nov 7, 2015 at 12:18

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

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In my experience,

android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@null"

can cause NullPointerException in older devices. Use this instead:

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

Cheers!

answered Sep 17, 2018 at 7:28

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

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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"

answered Feb 8, 2019 at 11:26

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

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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"

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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

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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"

answered Feb 10, 2019 at 19:56

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

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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
}

answered Apr 28, 2020 at 20:51

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

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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.

answered Oct 7, 2019 at 11:59

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