I agree with your choice... If you only need smooth scrolling the
easiest way is to simulate that touch event -  feed dispatchTouchEvent
with your MotionEvents as you do. But the challenge here is to compute
right scroll positions.  Hope you will archive that! Good luck

Pavel

On Apr 27, 9:24 pm, Moto <medicalsou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> Thanks for your reply!  I agree with some of the information you
> provided.
>
> So it seems ListView is keeping track of the list state. To name a
> few; scroll position, visible items, user input.
>
> I guess the main idea here is in order to create a completely custom
> ListView we need to handle displaying the list items as the user
> scrolls.  But to me that seems like too much work, almost re-inventing
> the wheel.
>
> My main concern is get and set scroll position smoothly... Thanks to
> your post I got a little idea to compute scroll position but not sure
> about setting the scroll position. I am able to scroll smoothly via
> dispatchTouchEven(...) but it's not accurate, might scroll little too
> much and sometimes not enough...  I got some code for that I can get
> if you want to see that...
>
> -Moto
>
> On Apr 27, 3:14 am, Pal <pavel.khlusti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi Moto,
>
> > at this moment I'm working on my own custom ListView implementation so
> > I can share some investigations I've found about ListView internals.
> > 1) First of all ListView is adapter view that means that it uses
> > adapter object to get it's child views - take a look at
> > ArrayAdapter.getView(int, View, ViewGroup)
> > 2) ListView at the moment only contains children that are on the
> > screen. For example, if you have adapter with 100 records but only 5
> > are fit on screen ListView.getChildCount will return 5 not 100
> > 3) each time you scroll your list it refresh dynamically its children
> > list getting child view from adapter and/or relayouting existing views
> > offsets
>
> > I dont have best understanding now but I think ListView state is : 1)
> > first position of child view of screen 2) offset of child view within
> > parent view
> > if you know first position and it offset you can simply get from
> > adapter and draw other ones
>
> > android.widget.AdapterView.getFirstVisiblePosition() will give you a
> > position of first item within adapter data on the screen
> > use getChildCount() and getChildAt() of ListView to get current child
> > views so you can obtain some layout details
> > ListView.setSelection(int) allows you to sets the currently selected
> > item but I think It will not scroll smoothly to it...
>
> > Hope this will help you
>
> > Thanks,
> > Pavel
>
> > On 27 апр, 03:05, Moto <medicalsou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I hope someone can shed some light? :(
>
> > > On Apr 25, 9:37 pm, Moto <medicalsou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I'm trying to figure out how it's been designed.  How it holds its
> > > > items?  How do I get a hold of the scrolling container?  How can I
> > > > know it's exact scrolling position?  How can I scroll it to an exact
> > > > position?
>
> > > > I want to have all the current benefits the ListView provides plus
> > > > detailed scrolling control... How about animating from x to x+100
> > > > scroll position?
>
> > > > Maybe I need to create my own ListView?  Where do I begin?
>
> > > > Thanks for the help!
> > > > -Moto!
>
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