How to make a scrollable app widget?

Question

As far as I have read in the Internet and official documentation, it isn't possible to make a scrollable app widget. Also all my tries failed. I even tried to subclass TextView to implement my own scroll method, but nothing worked.

Are there any ways to achieve that?

Btw.... there are solutions if you use for example htc sense or home desktop ++, but i want to make it available to other users which don't use this

Answer 1

Usually you put your view directly inside a ScrollView (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ScrollView.html).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>                                           
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="fill_parent">
     <!-- Your view
          Note : if you need more than one view you need to use a Layout -->
</ScrollView>

But you maybe want to handle the scrolling events yourself, and if so why?

Edit: doesn't answer the question.

Answer 2

Are there any ways to achieve that?

Not directly. You can always add buttons to rotate you through various options. But true scrolling is not possible.

Answer 3

HTC provides scrollable app widgets because these are built-in. Only their Launcher can create and display them. Regular app widgets do not support scrolling.[link text][1]