Scrollable TextView in Android Widget

Question

Hi,

I would like to create an android widget with a scrollable textview.

The solutions given to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1748977/making-textview-scrollable-in-android cannot be applied because it is a widget:

1. This

 findViewById(R.id.textview).setMovementMethod(new MovementMethod());

does not work, since findViewById is not available in AppWidgetProvider but only in Activity.

2.Putting a ScrollView around the TextView also does not work, because I get an InflateException:

 android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #23: Error inflating class ScrollView

Can anybody give me a hint, how to make a TextView in a Widget scrollable?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It looks like this is not possible.

More on this can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9580

and here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2922114/how-to-make-a-scrollable-app-widget

So, probably it is possible to do make appwidgets scrollable in the HTC sense environment but not for normal android environments.

A way around this is to add buttons that go up and down in a list.