How to programmatically scroll to specific item in a ListView in Android

MainActivity.java


package com.cfsuman.androidtutorials;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ListView;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;


public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Get the widgets reference from XML layout
        Button button = findViewById(R.id.button);
        ListView listView = findViewById(R.id.listView);


        // Initializing a new String Array
        String[] fruits = new String[] {
                "Abiu",
                "Batuan",
                "Black Mulberry",
                "Cape Gooseberry",
                "Desert banana",
                "Eastern May Hawthorn",
                "Fibrous Satinash",
                "Gooseberry",
                "Hairless rambutan",
                "Illawarra Plum",
                "Jelly Palm",
                "Kepel fruit",
                "Little gooseberry tree",
                "Mammee Apple",
                "Nagami Kumquat",
                "Oil Palm",
                "Peanut butter fruit",
                "Queensland Ebony",
                "Red Mulberry",
                "Sageretia",
                "Tahitian apple",
                "Ugni",
                "Vanilla",
                "Watermelon",
                "Yellow Granadilla",
                "Zig Zag Vine"
        };

        // Create a List from String Array elements
        List<String> fruits_list = new ArrayList<String>
                (Arrays.asList(fruits));


        // Create an ArrayAdapter from List
        ArrayAdapter<String> arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>
                (
                        this,
                        android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                        fruits_list
                );


        // DataBind ListView with items from ArrayAdapter
        listView.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);


        // Set button click listener
        button.setOnClickListener(v -> {
            // Scroll to position 14, fifteenth item of ListView
            // Position is zero based index
            listView.smoothScrollToPosition(14);
        });
    }
}

activity_main.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#DCDCDC"
    android:padding="24dp">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="ListView Scroll To Fifteenth Item"
        android:textAllCaps="false"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/listView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/button" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>