You cannot make a LinearLayout scrollable because it is not a scrollable container.
Only scrollable containers such as ScrollView, HorizontalScrollView, ListView, GridView, ExpandableListView can be made scrollable.
I suggest you place your LinearLayout inside a ScrollView which will by default show vertical scrollbars if there is enough content to scroll.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView ...>
<LinearLayout ...>
...
...
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
Note : ScrollView takes only one view as its child. So better that child view be a Linear Layout