Is there a way to programmatically scroll a scroll view to a specific edit text?

The above answers will work fine if the ScrollView is the direct parent of the ChildView. If your ChildView is being wrapped in another ViewGroup in the ScrollView, it will cause unexpected behavior because the View.getTop() get the position relative to its parent. In such case, you need to implement this:

public static void scrollToInvalidInputView(ScrollView scrollView, View view) {
    int vTop = view.getTop();

    while (!(view.getParent() instanceof ScrollView)) {
        view = (View) view.getParent();
        vTop += view.getTop();
    }

    final int scrollPosition = vTop;

    new Handler().post(() -> scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, scrollPosition));
}

I know this may be too late for a better answer but a desired perfect solution must be a system like positioner. I mean, when system makes a positioning for an Editor field it places the field just up to the keyboard, so as UI/UX rules it is perfect.

What below code makes is the Android way positioning smoothly. First of all we keep the current scroll point as a reference point. Second thing is to find the best positioning scroll point for an editor, to do this we scroll to top, and then request the editor fields to make the ScrollView component to do the best positioning. Gatcha! We've learned the best position. Now, what we'll do is scroll smoothly from the previous point to the point we've found newly. If you want you may omit smooth scrolling by using scrollTo instead of smoothScrollTo only.

NOTE: The main container ScrollView is a member field named scrollViewSignup, because my example was a signup screen, as you may figure out a lot.

view.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(final View view, boolean b) {
            if (b) {
                scrollViewSignup.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        int scrollY = scrollViewSignup.getScrollY();
                        scrollViewSignup.scrollTo(0, 0);
                        final Rect rect = new Rect(0, 0, view.getWidth(), view.getHeight());
                        view.requestRectangleOnScreen(rect, true);

                        int new_scrollY = scrollViewSignup.getScrollY();
                        scrollViewSignup.scrollTo(0, scrollY);
                        scrollViewSignup.smoothScrollTo(0, new_scrollY);
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    });

If you want to use this block for all EditText instances, and quickly integrate it with your screen code. You can simply make a traverser like below. To do this, I've made the main OnFocusChangeListener a member field named focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor, and call it during onCreate as below.

traverseEditTextChildren(scrollViewSignup, focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor);

And the method implementation is as below.

private void traverseEditTextChildren(ViewGroup viewGroup, View.OnFocusChangeListener focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor) {
    int childCount = viewGroup.getChildCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
        View view = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
        if (view instanceof EditText)
        {
            ((EditText) view).setOnFocusChangeListener(focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor);
        }
        else if (view instanceof ViewGroup)
        {
            traverseEditTextChildren((ViewGroup) view, focusChangeListenerToScrollEditor);
        }
    }
}

So, what we've done here is making all EditText instance children to call the listener at focus.

To reach this solution, I've checked it out all the solutions here, and generated a new solution for better UI/UX result.

Many thanks to all other answers inspiring me much.

yourScrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, yourEditText.getTop());

Just Do It ;)

 scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, myTextView.getTop());

                    }
                });

Answering from my practical project.

Vertical scroll, good for forms. Answer is based on Ahmadalibaloch horizontal scroll.

private final void focusOnView(final HorizontalScrollView scroll, final View view) {
    new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            int top = view.getTop();
            int bottom = view.getBottom();
            int sHeight = scroll.getHeight();
            scroll.smoothScrollTo(0, ((top + bottom - sHeight) / 2));
        }
    });
}

You can use ObjectAnimator like this:

ObjectAnimator.ofInt(yourScrollView, "scrollY", yourView.getTop()).setDuration(1500).start();

If scrlMain is your NestedScrollView, then use the following,

scrlMain.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        scrlMain.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_UP);

                    }
                });

Based on Sherif's answer, the following worked best for my use case. Notable changes are getTop() instead of getBottom() and smoothScrollTo() instead of scrollTo().

    private void scrollToView(final View view){
        final ScrollView scrollView = findViewById(R.id.bookmarksScrollView);
        if(scrollView == null) return;

        scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, view.getTop());
            }
        });
    }

If you want to scroll to a view when a soft keyboard is opened, then it might get a bit tricky. The best solution I've got so far is to use a combination of inset callbacks and requestRectangleOnScreen method.

First, you need to setup inset callbacks:

fun View.doOnApplyWindowInsetsInRoot(block: (View, WindowInsetsCompat, Rect) -> Unit) {
    val initialPadding = recordInitialPaddingForView(this)
    val root = getRootForView(this)
    ViewCompat.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(root) { v, insets ->
        block(v, insets, initialPadding)
        insets
    }
    requestApplyInsetsWhenAttached()
}

fun View.requestApplyInsetsWhenAttached() {
    if (isAttachedToWindow) {
        requestApplyInsets()
    } else {
        addOnAttachStateChangeListener(object : View.OnAttachStateChangeListener {
            override fun onViewAttachedToWindow(v: View) {
                v.removeOnAttachStateChangeListener(this)
                v.requestApplyInsets()
            }

            override fun onViewDetachedFromWindow(v: View) = Unit
        })
    }
}

We are setting a callback on a root view to make sure we get called. Insets could be consumed before our view in question received them, so we have to do additional work here.

Now it's almost easy:

doOnApplyWindowInsetsInRoot { _, _, _ ->
    post {
        if (viewInQuestion.hasFocus()) {
            requestRectangleOnScreen(Rect(0, 0, width, height))
        }
    }
}

You can get rid of a focus check. It's there to limit number of calls to requestRectangleOnScreen. I use post to run an action after scrollable parent scheduled scroll to a focused view.

If anybody is looking for a Kotlin version you can do this with an extension function

fun ScrollView.scrollToChild(view: View, onScrolled: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
    view.requestFocus()
    val scrollBounds = Rect()
    getHitRect(scrollBounds)
    if (!view.getLocalVisibleRect(scrollBounds)) {
        findViewTreeLifecycleOwner()?.lifecycleScope?.launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
            smoothScrollTo(0, view.bottom - 40)
            onScrolled?.invoke()
        }
    }
}

There is a little callback that lets you do something after the scroll.

Add postDelayed to the view so that getTop() does not return 0.

binding.scrollViewLogin.postDelayed({
            val scrollTo = binding.textInputLayoutFirstName.top
            binding.scrollViewLogin.isSmoothScrollingEnabled = true
            binding.scrollViewLogin.smoothScrollTo(0, scrollTo)
     }, 400
) 

Also make sure the view is a direct child of scrollView, otherwise you would get getTop() as zero. Example: getTop() of edittext which is embedded inside TextInputLayout would return 0. So in this case, we have to compute getTop() of TextInputLayout which is a direct child of ScrollView.

<ScrollView>
    <TextInputLayout>
        <EditText/>
    </TextInputLayout>
</ScrollView>