Android Custom Horizontal ScrollView Example

In this example, I’m going to share a simple tip to make custom horizontal android ScrollView. Android has provided us lots of ScrollView attributes and with the help of these attributes, we can customize HorizontalScrollView in our own way.

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Create a new Android Project

Let’s start by creating a new android project to customize android horizontal ScrollView with following information.
Application Name: Custom Horizontal ScrollView
Company Domain: viralandroid.com
Package Name: com.viralandroid.customhorizontalscrollview
Minimum SDK: Android 2.2 (API 8 Froyo)

Add ScrollView in XML Layout File

Look at the following code I have added scrollbarThumbHorizontal and scrollbarTrackHorizontal xml attribute to customize android HorizontalScrollView. Following is the final code of xml layout file.
res/layout/activity_main.xml

XML Drawable Resource

Create two xml files horizontal_scrollview_track.xml and horizontal_scrollview_thumb.xml inside res/drawer and add following code.
res/drawer/horizontal_scrollview_track.xml

res/drawer/horizontal_scrollview_thumb.xml

Java Activity File

Your default java activity file looks like this.
src/MainActivity.java

Now, run your application. Your application looks like above screenshot.

Download Complete Example Project

Download complete Android Custom Horizontal ScrollView Example project source code from GitHub.