I've just found a workaround to prevent the system to display this wrong behaviour.
There are two scenarios which use different code for the SectionIndexer to work.
The first scenario is the case that you use the FastScrollbar-Thumb to navigate to the next section. Assuming that the groups are your sections the overriden methods for implementing the SectionIndexer would look like that:
@Override
public int getPositionForSection(int section) {
return section;
}
// Gets called when scrolling the list manually
@Override
public int getSectionForPosition(int position) {
return ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionGroup(
expandableListView
.getExpandableListPosition(position));
}
The second scenario is the case that you scroll the list manually and the fast scrollbars move according to the sections, not to all items. The code therefore looks like that:
@Override
public int getPositionForSection(int section) {
return expandableListView.getFlatListPosition(
ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionForGroup(section));
}
// Gets called when scrolling the list manually
@Override
public int getSectionForPosition(int position) {
return ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionGroup(
expandableListView
.getExpandableListPosition(position));
}
As one can see these two behaviours can not play together without further adoption.
The workaround to make it both work is to catch the case when someone is scrolling per hand (i.e. scrolling via touch). This can be done with implementing the OnScrollListener interface with the adapter class and set it onto the ExpandableListView:
public class MyExpandableListAdapter extends BaseExpandableListAdapter
implements SectionIndexer, AbsListView.OnScrollListener {
// Your fields here
// ...
private final ExpandableListView expandableListView;
private boolean manualScroll;
public MyExpandableListAdapter(ExpandableListView expandableListView
/* Your other arguments */) {
this.expandableListView = expandableListView;
this.expandableListView.setOnScrollListener(this);
// Other initializations
}
@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
this.manualScroll = scrollState == SCROLL_STATE_TOUCH_SCROLL;
}
@Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view,
int firstVisibleItem,
int visibleItemCount,
int totalItemCount) {}
@Override
public int getPositionForSection(int section) {
if (manualScroll) {
return section;
} else {
return expandableListView.getFlatListPosition(
ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionForGroup(section));
}
}
// Gets called when scrolling the list manually
@Override
public int getSectionForPosition(int position) {
return ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionGroup(
expandableListView
.getExpandableListPosition(position));
}
// Your other methods
// ...
}
That fixed the bug for me.
