Save the position of scrollview when the orientation changes

To save and restore the scroll position of a ScrollView when the phone orientation changes you can do the following: Save the current position in the onSaveInstanceState method:

protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
    outState.putIntArray("ARTICLE_SCROLL_POSITION",
            new int[]{ mScrollView.getScrollX(), mScrollView.getScrollY()});
}

Then restore the position in the onRestoreInstanceState method. Note that we need to post a Runnable to the ScrollView to get this to work:

protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
    final int[] position = savedInstanceState.getIntArray("ARTICLE_SCROLL_POSITION");
    if(position != null)
        mScrollView.post(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                mScrollView.scrollTo(position[0], position[1]);
            }
        });
}

Found this solution on google. Credit goes to Original Coder. :)

Just set android:id on your scrolling element. Your view will save its scrolling position automatically.

Code from View.java:15554

protected void dispatchSaveInstanceState(SparseArray<Parcelable> container) {
    if (mID != NO_ID && (mViewFlags & SAVE_DISABLED_MASK) == 0) {
        mPrivateFlags &= ~PFLAG_SAVE_STATE_CALLED;
        Parcelable state = onSaveInstanceState();
        if ((mPrivateFlags & PFLAG_SAVE_STATE_CALLED) == 0) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(
                    "Derived class did not call super.onSaveInstanceState()");
        }
        if (state != null) {
            // Log.i("View", "Freezing #" + Integer.toHexString(mID)
            // + ": " + state);
            container.put(mID, state);
        }
    }
}