How to scroll to last item in ListView

neroware · June 2015

Hello. I'm using Forms 1.4.2.6359 and I have a ListView with HasUnevenRows = true. I'm trying to get the ListView to scroll to the last item in the list after its ItemSource is asynchronously populated after the view initially loads, but I'm not sure it's working as expected. I should also mention that the row heights vary widely.

Is there anything wrong with the following code -- am I using the ListView.ScrollTo method incorrectly or am I missing something here?

public Task NotifyDataLoadedAsync ()
{
    var lastMessage = this.MessagesListView.ItemsSource.Cast<object> ().LastOrDefault ();
    if (null != lastMessage) {
        this.MessagesListView.ScrollTo (lastMessage, ScrollToPosition.End, true);
    }

    return Task.FromResult (0);
}

FredyWenger · June 2015

@neroware:

I use it this way (to scroll to top):

int indexToScrollTo = 0;
lvErgebnisAnzeige.ScrollTo(GV.PL_Empfehlungen[indexToScrollTo], ScrollToPosition.Start, false);

where GV.PL_Empfehlungen is the bound list.
I would try it with set indexToScrollTo to the index of the last item in the List and ScrollToPosition.End

neroware · June 2015

Hi @FredyWenger, thanks for the reply. LastOrDefault() is returning the last item in the bound collection, and the item to which I want the ListView to scroll. As you can see, I'm already using ScrollToPosition.End in my example, so no luck there. Setting the animate parameter to false does scroll the ListView closer to the last item, but I'm not sure I want to resort to losing the animation and it doesn't solve the problem at any rate.

yuqitian · September 2015

When I use listview in Android, I found the following bug. Is any people known how to fix it?

Xamarin.Forms 1.4
Android ListView ScrollTo method exception:

MyCode

lastItem = listView.ItemsSource.OfType().Last();
listView.ScrollTo(lastItem, ScrollToPosition.End, false);

[MonoDroid] UNHANDLED EXCEPTION:
[MonoDroid] System.MissingMethodException: Method 'AbsListView.SetSelectionFromTop' not found.
[MonoDroid] at Xamarin.Forms.ListView.OnScrollToRequested (Xamarin.Forms.ScrollToRequestedEventArgs)
[MonoDroid] at Xamarin.Forms.ListView.ScrollTo (object,Xamarin.Forms.ScrollToPosition,bool)
[MonoDroid] at ListViewScrollToDemo.TestPage/<>c__DisplayClass8.<.ctor>b__7 (object,System.EventArgs) [0x00024] in c:\Users\yuqit\Downloads\ListViewScrollToDemo\ListViewScrollToDemo\ListViewScrollToDemo\ListViewScrollToDemo\TestPage.cs:49
[MonoDroid] at Xamarin.Forms.Button.Xamarin.Forms.IButtonController.SendClicked ()
[MonoDroid] at Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.ButtonRenderer/ButtonClickListener.OnClick (Android.Views.View)
[MonoDroid] at Android.Views.View/IOnClickListenerInvoker.n_OnClick_Landroid_view_View_ (intptr,intptr,intptr) [0x00011] in /Users/builder/data/lanes/2058/58099c53/source/monodroid/src/Mono.Android/platforms/android-19/src/generated/Android.Views.View.cs:1745
[MonoDroid] at (wrapper dynamic-method) object.abe245bf-73a6-474b-ae01-915c7f9d3c4a (intptr,intptr,intptr)
[AndroidRuntime] Shutting down VM

RaphaelSchindler · September 2015

@neroware Is this on iOS?

Darth_Aaron · January 2016

I'm using version 2.01 and getting this same exception No Method AbsListView.SetSelectionFromTop

JohnHardman · January 2016

@neroware - In terms of the code that you posted above, it looks fine. I popped the following into my app to check, and it worked ok on WinRT (which is usually the most troublesome platform).

        var v = _listView.ItemsSource.Cast<object>().LastOrDefault();
        _listView.ScrollTo(v, ScrollToPosition.End, true);

However, there is a bug in XF on iOS, so when I tried the same code on iOS it failed to scroll. This could be what you are hitting if you are running on iOS. It is logged in bugzilla at https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28277

If that's not it, then:

If you are testing on WinRT, there are definitely problems with ScrollTo and ScrollToAsync on ScrollViews on WinRT (I have logged two in bugzilla), although I do wonder if ListView does not share the scrolling code with ScrollView, as the snippet above works fine, even on WinRT.

Also, if you can, you might want to try upgrading to XF 2.0 as, if I remember correctly, 1.4.2.6359 was the most troublesome version that I used since starting with XF at the end of 2014.

JohnHardman · January 2016

@yuqitian - Have a look at these two threads:

http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/32372/debug-error
where Jason Smith says
"The error seen at the top of the thread indicates the build targets are set incorrectly in the project configuration."

and
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/41625/listview-scrollto-not-working-on-android
where Kent Green from the support team went into more detail about what needs to be done.

KarineROBINOT · May 2016

Does anybody find a solution for iOs ?

It works fine for android app but not for iOs.

I tried with a StartTimer :
Device.StartTimer(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(50), () => this.MessagesListView.ScrollTo(vm.Messages.LastOrDefault(), ScrollToPosition.End, false)); but it does'nt go at the end

N_Nightingale · December 2016

In case anyone else ends up here searching for answers like I did... I found that changing the ScrollToPosition parameter to ScrollToPosition.MakeVisible got it working for me on Android and iOS. Using the logical option (ScrollToPosition.End) was not making the last item fully visible.

var last = documentList.ItemsSource.Cast<object>().LastOrDefault();
documentList.ScrollTo(last, ScrollToPosition.MakeVisible, true);

RianDutra · February 2017

@N_Nightingale said:
In case anyone else ends up here searching for answers like I did... I found that changing the ScrollToPosition parameter to ScrollToPosition.MakeVisible got it working for me on Android and iOS. Using the logical option (ScrollToPosition.End) was not making the last item fully visible.
var last = documentList.ItemsSource.Cast<object>().LastOrDefault();
documentList.ScrollTo(last, ScrollToPosition.MakeVisible, true);

I got this exception, even if my listview is not empty:
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.

RianDutra · March 2017

I had to create a custom ListView.

JosephHarvey · October 2017

I found i had to invoke an event notification after i added the List or added to the list, and pass the List Member object with the notification, then on the page code behind I handled that event and used the passed object in the Scroll to.

public partial class ConversationPage : ContentPage
        {
            public ConversationPage()
            {
                InitializeComponent();
                MainListView.ItemTapped += OnItemTapped;
                Appearing += ConversationPage_Appearing;
            }

            private void ConversationPage_Appearing(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
            {
                if (BindingContext != null)
                {
                    var viewModel = (ConversationViewModel)BindingContext;
                    viewModel.NotifyScrollToBottom += ViewModel_NotifyScrollToBottom;
                }
            }

            private void ViewModel_NotifyScrollToBottom(Api.Models.Chat.Message Message)
            {
                MainListView.ScrollTo(Message, ScrollToPosition.End, true);
            }
    }
public partial class ConversationPage : ContentPage
        {
            public ConversationPage()
            {
                InitializeComponent();
                MainListView.ItemTapped += OnItemTapped;
                Appearing += ConversationPage_Appearing;
            }

            private void ConversationPage_Appearing(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
            {
                if (BindingContext != null)
                {
                    var viewModel = (ConversationViewModel)BindingContext;
                    viewModel.NotifyScrollToBottom += ViewModel_NotifyScrollToBottom;
                }
            }

            private void ViewModel_NotifyScrollToBottom(Api.Models.Chat.Message Message)
            {
                MainListView.ScrollTo(Message, ScrollToPosition.End, true);
            }
    }

  public class ConversationViewModel : ViewModelBase
    {

private void _chatService_NotifyMessageHistroyForChannel(List<Message> List, Channel Channel)
        {
            MessageList = new ObservableCollection<Message>(List);
            if(MessageList.Count > 0)
                NotifyScrollToBottom?.Invoke(MessageList[MessageList.Count-1]);
            IsRefreshing = false;
        }

        private void _chatService_NotifyReceivedMessageFromUser(Message Message, string ChannelUrl, Member FromUser)
        {
            MessageList.Add(Message);
            NotifyScrollToBottom?.Invoke(Message);

        }

    }

It works in Android, havent checked iOS. I hope this helps someone

uday_Suddhala · November 2017

generate a event in your constructor like this

((INotifyCollectionChanged)myList.ItemsSource).CollectionChanged += MyGroupTickets_CollectionChanged;

then implement your method like this:

private void MyGroupTickets_CollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        List<MessageData> someVar = ((IEnumerable<MessageData>)this.myList.ItemsSource).ToList();
        myList.ScrollTo(someVar[someVar.Count - 1], ScrollToPosition.End, true);
    }

it will scroll to your last item in list whenever you add any item.

Allister · April 2018

I ended up adding my own event to my viewmodel, like:

    public delegate void ContentUpdatedEvent();
    public event ContentUpdatedEvent ContentUpdated;

calling
ContentUpdated?.Invoke();

in the viewmodel where needed,
and wiring it up from the xaml.cs

    ViewModel.ContentUpdated+/-= ContentListViewScrollToEnd;

which does

    Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(() =>
        ContentListView.ScrollTo(ViewModel.Content.Last(), ScrollToPosition.End, false)
    );

remember ScrollTo can throw an exception if you want to handle that too.
as all the events didn't seem to fire for me, so rolled my own, which makes me feel dirty.

Ska · November 2018

@uday_Suddhala said:
generate a event in your constructor like this

((INotifyCollectionChanged)myList.ItemsSource).CollectionChanged += MyGroupTickets_CollectionChanged;

then implement your method like this:
private void MyGroupTickets_CollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        List<MessageData> someVar = ((IEnumerable<MessageData>)this.myList.ItemsSource).ToList();
        myList.ScrollTo(someVar[someVar.Count - 1], ScrollToPosition.End, true);
    }
it will scroll to your last item in list whenever you add any item.

Perfect solution.. the right approach.. it worked like a charm

abdalrhman · January 2019

Can You trY this
var Employees = OldMessages.ToArray();
var target = Employees[Employees.Length -1];
Chatdatalist.ScrollTo(target, ScrollToPosition.Start, true);

jtth · December 2019

@N_Nightingale said:
In case anyone else ends up here searching for answers like I did... I found that changing the ScrollToPosition parameter to ScrollToPosition.MakeVisible got it working for me on Android and iOS. Using the logical option (ScrollToPosition.End) was not making the last item fully visible.
var last = documentList.ItemsSource.Cast<object>().LastOrDefault();
documentList.ScrollTo(last, ScrollToPosition.MakeVisible, true);

MakeVisible was the ticket for us! Thanks : )

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