How to always show scrollbar

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The scrollbar in my scrollview is only visible when I start scrolling  How can I always show it

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Simple and easy  Add this  attribute to the ScrollBar   android fadeScrollbars  false    Or you can do this in java   scrollView setScrollbarFadingEnabled false     Or in kotlin   scrollView isScrollbarFadingEnabled   false

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These two together worked for me   android scrollbarFadeDuration  0  android scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack  true

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Setting the android scrollbarFadeDuration  0  will do the trick

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Don t forget to add android scrollbars  vertical  along with android fadeScrollbars  false  or it won t show at all in some cases

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Style your scroll bar Visibility  Color and Thickness like this    lt ScrollView         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  match parent          android background   color recycler bg            lt  --Show Scroll Bar-- gt          android fadeScrollbars  false          android scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack  true          android scrollbarFadeDuration  50000            lt  --Scroll Bar thickness-- gt          android scrollbarSize  4dp            lt  --Scroll Bar Color-- gt          android scrollbarThumbVertical   color colorSecondaryText   gt    Hope it help save some time

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As of now the best way is to use android fadeScrollbars  false  in xml which is equivalent to ScrollView setScrollbarFadingEnabled false   in java code

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Setting this will do the trick  Change the  drwable for own style   android scrollbars  vertical              android scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack  true              android fadeScrollbars  false              android scrollbarThumbVertical   drawable scroll

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android scrollbarFadeDuration  0  sometimes does not work after I exit from the apps and start again  So I add gallery setScrollbarFadingEnabled false   to the activity and it works

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Try android scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack  true  for vertical  and Try android scrollbarAlwaysDrawHorizontalTrack  true  for horizontal

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There are 2 ways    from Java code  ScrollView setScrollbarFadingEnabled false   from XML code  android fadeScrollbars  false    Simple as that

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setVertical  helped to make vertical scrollbar always visible programmatically  scrollView setScrollbarFadingEnabled false   scrollView setVerticalScrollBarEnabled true   scrollView setVerticalFadingEdgeEnabled false

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I had the same problem  The bar had the same background color  Try   android scrollbarThumbVertical   android color black

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Since neither of the above worked for me  here s what did  android scrollbarDefaultDelayBeforeFade  500000

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Try this as the above suggestions didn t work for me when I wanted to do this for a TextView   TextView setScrollbarFadingEnabled false     Good Luck

[android] How to always show scrollbar

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