Is there a way to disable/edit the fading that a list view has at its edges?

Question

Scrollable views such as the ListView have a fade out of the content along the edges where there is more content in that direction. How can I turn this fading off? I know you can change the cacheColorHint as discussed here: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/listview-backgrounds.html but that is not what I am looking for and will not achieve what I am looking for in this case.

I want to disable the fade completely or be able to reduce the size and or transparency of it. Is this possible?

Solution 1

I can't actually test it right now, but I believe fadingEdge is what you're looking for:

android:fadingEdge="none"

or

listView.setVerticalFadingEdgeEnabled(false);

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setVerticalFadingEdgeEnabled(boolean)

Solution 2

In case someone finds this via Google:

As mentioned, android:fadingEdge is deprecated. Use this instead:

android:overScrollMode="never"

Solution 3

Late answer, but at this point to maintain backwards compatibility with API 13 and below, use both android:requiresFadingEdge="none" and android:fadingEdge="none" together.

Comments

[cottonBallPaws]

That did it! Thank you. Also, I see there is a field called android:fadingEdgeLength for controlling the length of the fade. Thanks again.

[Warpzit]

It should be noted that fadingedges is disabled per default for all scrollviews from ice cream sandwich and henceforth (commonsware.com/blog/2011/10/19/…)

[Kevin Coppock]

Heh, funny that this answer comes back to help ME. Thanks @Warpzit, I was actually wondering yesterday why my fading edge wasn't working on ICS. :)

[Warpzit]

@kcoppock heh well I figured it out because I was wondering why fadingedge was deprecated :) Glad it already helped someone :D

[tomrozb]

The only solution that worked for me on 4.3. All the suggestions above simply don't work.

[speedynomads]

The accepted answer is out of date. This is the correct solution.

[Suvitruf - Andrei Apanasik]

If i need disable fadingEdge but without disabling OverScroll?

[Adib Faramarzi]

this solution should be accepted , its the preferred way to do it.

[kit]

Works for RecyclerView too, tested