Both way scrollable gridview in android

Is it possible to allow a griview to scroll both vertically and ho开发者_C百科rizontally simultaneously in android? Please advise.

It doubt that would be possible. A GridView is based on an ArrayAdapter, having only 1 dimension for the items. How would you arrange them in a view that can be extended both vertically and horizontally?

Of course, if you just want to make it larger than the screen and use hard-coded number of rows/columns, you can put it in another scrollable view.

There are following two solutions and you can use one which fits your requirement.

1. You can use RecyclerView instead of GridView with a custom layout manager. You can read this code for help. Also, you can read this article on how to create custom layout manager. This article gives an example of how to create two-way scrolling grid layout.

2. The other solution is to use RecyclerView with horizontal scrolling Grid Layout wrapped inside a scroll view.

   <ScrollView>
       <RecyclerView />
   </ScrollView>
   

   use GridLayoutManager with horizontal scroll for recycler view.

The first solution is efficient in a way that it handles view recycling properly.

Hope this will help.