How To Make A Progressbar Stay In The Center Of Screen Despite Scrolling

I have a ProgressBar in a ScrollView, and I'd like it to stay centered vertically despite the user scrolling down or up. However, I'm not sure how to accomplish this. Here's the co

Solution 1:

Put it outside of the ScrollView. Just have the ScrollView and the ProgressBar overlap.

You can read about how to overlap views here: Overlapping Views in Android

There's a couple of ways to do it, ranging from GridLayouts to RelativeLayouts and then programatic ways to do it.

Solution 2:

You need the ScrollView to be at same level as ProgressDialog in your Layout.

Here it is in concept:

<RelativeLayout><ProgressDialog><ScrollView><RelativeLayout>

Solution 3:

you can insert this into the scrollview tag

android:fillViewport="true"