RecyclerView  |  API reference  |  Android Developers

A flexible view for providing a limited window into a large data set.

RecyclerView introduces an additional level of abstraction between the Adapter and LayoutManager to be able to detect data set changes in batches during a layout calculation. This saves LayoutManager from tracking adapter changes to calculate animations. It also helps with performance because all view bindings happen at the same time and unnecessary bindings are avoided.

For this reason, there are two types of position related methods in RecyclerView:

These two positions are the same except the time between dispatching adapter.notify* events and calculating the updated layout.

Methods that return or receive *LayoutPosition* use position as of the latest layout calculation (e.g. getLayoutPosition, findViewHolderForLayoutPosition). These positions include all changes until the last layout calculation. You can rely on these positions to be consistent with what user is currently seeing on the screen. For example, if you have a list of items on the screen and user asks for the 5th element, you should use these methods as they'll match what user is seeing.

The other set of position related methods are in the form of *AdapterPosition*. (e.g. getAbsoluteAdapterPosition, getBindingAdapterPosition, findViewHolderForAdapterPosition) You should use these methods when you need to work with up-to-date adapter positions even if they may not have been reflected to layout yet. For example, if you want to access the item in the adapter on a ViewHolder click, you should use getBindingAdapterPosition. Beware that these methods may not be able to calculate adapter positions if notifyDataSetChanged has been called and new layout has not yet been calculated. For this reasons, you should carefully handle NO_POSITION or null results from these methods.

When writing a LayoutManager you almost always want to use layout positions whereas when writing an Adapter, you probably want to use adapter positions.

To display updatable data in a RecyclerView, your adapter needs to signal inserts, moves, and deletions to RecyclerView. You can build this yourself by manually calling adapter.notify* methods when content changes, or you can use one of the easier solutions RecyclerView provides: List diffing with DiffUtil If your RecyclerView is displaying a list that is re-fetched from scratch for each update (e.g. from the network, or from a database), DiffUtil can calculate the difference between versions of the list. DiffUtil takes both lists as input and computes the difference, which can be passed to RecyclerView to trigger minimal animations and updates to keep your UI performant, and animations meaningful. This approach requires that each list is represented in memory with immutable content, and relies on receiving updates as new instances of lists. This approach is also ideal if your UI layer doesn't implement sorting, it just presents the data in the order it's given.

The best part of this approach is that it extends to any arbitrary changes - item updates, moves, addition and removal can all be computed and handled the same way. Though you do have to keep two copies of the list in memory while diffing, and must avoid mutating them, it's possible to share unmodified elements between list versions.

There are three primary ways to do this for RecyclerView. We recommend you start with ListAdapter, the higher-level API that builds in List diffing on a background thread, with minimal code. AsyncListDiffer also provides this behavior, but without defining an Adapter to subclass. If you want more control, DiffUtil is the lower-level API you can use to compute the diffs yourself. Each approach allows you to specify how diffs should be computed based on item data.

List mutation with SortedList If your RecyclerView receives updates incrementally, e.g. item X is inserted, or item Y is removed, you can use SortedList to manage your list. You define how to order items, and it will automatically trigger update signals that RecyclerView can use. SortedList works if you only need to handle insert and remove events, and has the benefit that you only ever need to have a single copy of the list in memory. It can also compute differences with replaceAll, but this method is more limited than the list diffing behavior above. Paging Library The Paging library extends the diff-based approach to additionally support paged loading. It provides the androidx.paging.PagedList class that operates as a self-loading list, provided a source of data like a database, or paginated network API. It provides convenient list diffing support out of the box, similar to ListAdapter and AsyncListDiffer. For more information about the Paging library, see the library documentation. layoutManager

Constants

NO_ID

public static final long NO_ID = -1

SCROLL_STATE_DRAGGING

public static final int SCROLL_STATE_DRAGGING = 1

The RecyclerView is currently being dragged by outside input such as user touch input.

SCROLL_STATE_IDLE

public static final int SCROLL_STATE_IDLE = 0

The RecyclerView is not currently scrolling.

SCROLL_STATE_SETTLING

public static final int SCROLL_STATE_SETTLING = 2

The RecyclerView is currently animating to a final position while not under outside control.

TOUCH_SLOP_DEFAULT

public static final int TOUCH_SLOP_DEFAULT = 0

Constant for use with setScrollingTouchSlop. Indicates that the RecyclerView should use the standard touch slop for smooth, continuous scrolling.

TOUCH_SLOP_PAGING

public static final int TOUCH_SLOP_PAGING = 1

Constant for use with setScrollingTouchSlop. Indicates that the RecyclerView should use the standard touch slop for scrolling widgets that snap to a page or other coarse-grained barrier.

UNDEFINED_DURATION

public static final int UNDEFINED_DURATION = -2147483648

Constant that represents that a duration has not been defined.

VERTICAL

public static final int VERTICAL = 1

Public constructors

Public methods

addItemDecoration

public void addItemDecoration(@NonNull RecyclerView.ItemDecoration decor)

Add an ItemDecoration to this RecyclerView. Item decorations can affect both measurement and drawing of individual item views.

Item decorations are ordered. Decorations placed earlier in the list will be run/queried/drawn first for their effects on item views. Padding added to views will be nested; a padding added by an earlier decoration will mean further item decorations in the list will be asked to draw/pad within the previous decoration's given area.

addItemDecoration

public void addItemDecoration(@NonNull RecyclerView.ItemDecoration decor, int index)

Add an ItemDecoration to this RecyclerView. Item decorations can affect both measurement and drawing of individual item views.

Item decorations are ordered. Decorations placed earlier in the list will be run/queried/drawn first for their effects on item views. Padding added to views will be nested; a padding added by an earlier decoration will mean further item decorations in the list will be asked to draw/pad within the previous decoration's given area.

Parameters
@NonNull RecyclerView.ItemDecoration decor

Decoration to add

int index

Position in the decoration chain to insert this decoration at. If this value is negative the decoration will be added at the end.

addOnChildAttachStateChangeListener

public void addOnChildAttachStateChangeListener(
    @NonNull RecyclerView.OnChildAttachStateChangeListener listener
)

Register a listener that will be notified whenever a child view is attached to or detached from RecyclerView.

This listener will be called when a LayoutManager or the RecyclerView decides that a child view is no longer needed. If an application associates expensive or heavyweight data with item views, this may be a good place to release or free those resources.

addRecyclerListener

public void addRecyclerListener(@NonNull RecyclerView.RecyclerListener listener)

Register a listener that will be notified whenever a child view is recycled.

The listeners will be called when a LayoutManager or the RecyclerView decides that a child view is no longer needed. If an application associates data with the item views being recycled, this may be a good place to release or free those resources.

clearOnScrollListeners

public void clearOnScrollListeners()

Remove all secondary listener that were notified of any changes in scroll state or position.

computeHorizontalScrollExtent

public int computeHorizontalScrollExtent()

Compute the horizontal extent of the horizontal scrollbar's thumb within the horizontal range. This value is used to compute the length of the thumb within the scrollbar's track.

The range is expressed in arbitrary units that must be the same as the units used by computeHorizontalScrollRange and computeHorizontalScrollOffset.

Default implementation returns 0.

If you want to support scroll bars, override computeHorizontalScrollExtent in your LayoutManager.

Returns
int

The horizontal extent of the scrollbar's thumb

computeHorizontalScrollOffset

public int computeHorizontalScrollOffset()

Compute the horizontal offset of the horizontal scrollbar's thumb within the horizontal range. This value is used to compute the position of the thumb within the scrollbar's track.

The range is expressed in arbitrary units that must be the same as the units used by computeHorizontalScrollRange and computeHorizontalScrollExtent.

Default implementation returns 0.

If you want to support scroll bars, override computeHorizontalScrollOffset in your LayoutManager.

Returns
int

The horizontal offset of the scrollbar's thumb

computeVerticalScrollExtent

public int computeVerticalScrollExtent()

Compute the vertical extent of the vertical scrollbar's thumb within the vertical range. This value is used to compute the length of the thumb within the scrollbar's track.

The range is expressed in arbitrary units that must be the same as the units used by computeVerticalScrollRange and computeVerticalScrollOffset.

Default implementation returns 0.

If you want to support scroll bars, override computeVerticalScrollExtent in your LayoutManager.

Returns
int

The vertical extent of the scrollbar's thumb

computeVerticalScrollOffset

public int computeVerticalScrollOffset()

Compute the vertical offset of the vertical scrollbar's thumb within the vertical range. This value is used to compute the position of the thumb within the scrollbar's track.

The range is expressed in arbitrary units that must be the same as the units used by computeVerticalScrollRange and computeVerticalScrollExtent.

Default implementation returns 0.

If you want to support scroll bars, override computeVerticalScrollOffset in your LayoutManager.

Returns
int

The vertical offset of the scrollbar's thumb

dispatchNestedFling

public boolean dispatchNestedFling(float velocityX, float velocityY, boolean consumed)

dispatchNestedPreScroll

public boolean dispatchNestedPreScroll(
    int dx,
    int dy,
    int[] consumed,
    int[] offsetInWindow
)

dispatchNestedPreScroll

public boolean dispatchNestedPreScroll(
    int dx,
    int dy,
    int[] consumed,
    int[] offsetInWindow,
    int type
)

Dispatch one step of a nested scroll in progress before this view consumes any portion of it.

Nested pre-scroll events are to nested scroll events what touch intercept is to touch. dispatchNestedPreScroll offers an opportunity for the parent view in a nested scrolling operation to consume some or all of the scroll operation before the child view consumes it.

Parameters
int dx

Horizontal scroll distance in pixels

int dy

Vertical scroll distance in pixels

int[] consumed

Output. If not null, consumed[0] will contain the consumed component of dx and consumed[1] the consumed dy.

int[] offsetInWindow

Optional. If not null, on return this will contain the offset in local view coordinates of this view from before this operation to after it completes. View implementations may use this to adjust expected input coordinate tracking.

int type

the type of input which cause this scroll event

Returns
boolean

true if the parent consumed some or all of the scroll delta

dispatchNestedScroll

public boolean dispatchNestedScroll(
    int dxConsumed,
    int dyConsumed,
    int dxUnconsumed,
    int dyUnconsumed,
    int[] offsetInWindow
)

dispatchNestedScroll

public boolean dispatchNestedScroll(
    int dxConsumed,
    int dyConsumed,
    int dxUnconsumed,
    int dyUnconsumed,
    int[] offsetInWindow,
    int type
)

Dispatch one step of a nested scroll in progress.

Implementations of views that support nested scrolling should call this to report info about a scroll in progress to the current nested scrolling parent. If a nested scroll is not currently in progress or nested scrolling is not enabled for this view this method does nothing.

Compatible View implementations should also call dispatchNestedPreScroll before consuming a component of the scroll event themselves.

Parameters
int dxConsumed

Horizontal distance in pixels consumed by this view during this scroll step

int dyConsumed

Vertical distance in pixels consumed by this view during this scroll step

int dxUnconsumed

Horizontal scroll distance in pixels not consumed by this view

int dyUnconsumed

Horizontal scroll distance in pixels not consumed by this view

int[] offsetInWindow

Optional. If not null, on return this will contain the offset in local view coordinates of this view from before this operation to after it completes. View implementations may use this to adjust expected input coordinate tracking.

int type

the type of input which cause this scroll event

Returns
boolean

true if the event was dispatched, false if it could not be dispatched.

dispatchNestedScroll

public final void dispatchNestedScroll(
    int dxConsumed,
    int dyConsumed,
    int dxUnconsumed,
    int dyUnconsumed,
    int[] offsetInWindow,
    int type,
    @NonNull int[] consumed
)

Dispatch one step of a nested scroll in progress.

Implementations of views that support nested scrolling should call this to report info about a scroll in progress to the current nested scrolling parent. If a nested scroll is not currently in progress or nested scrolling is not enabled for this view this method does nothing.

Compatible View implementations should also call dispatchNestedPreScroll before consuming a component of the scroll event themselves.

The original nested scrolling child (where the input events were received to start the scroll) must provide a non-null consumed parameter with values {0, 0}.

Parameters
int dxConsumed

Horizontal distance in pixels consumed by this view during this scroll step

int dyConsumed

Vertical distance in pixels consumed by this view during this scroll step

int dxUnconsumed

Horizontal scroll distance in pixels not consumed by this view

int dyUnconsumed

Horizontal scroll distance in pixels not consumed by this view

int[] offsetInWindow

Optional. If not null, on return this will contain the offset in local view coordinates of this view from before this operation to after it completes. View implementations may use this to adjust expected input coordinate tracking.

int type

the type of input which cause this scroll event

@NonNull int[] consumed

Output. Upon this method returning, will contain the original values plus any scroll distances consumed by all of this view's nested scrolling parents up the view hierarchy. Index 0 for the x dimension, and index 1 for the y dimension

findChildViewUnder

public @Nullable View findChildViewUnder(float x, float y)

Find the topmost view under the given point.

Parameters
float x

Horizontal position in pixels to search

float y

Vertical position in pixels to search

Returns
@Nullable View

The child view under (x, y) or null if no matching child is found

findContainingItemView

public @Nullable View findContainingItemView(@NonNull View view)

Traverses the ancestors of the given view and returns the item view that contains it and also a direct child of the RecyclerView. This returned view can be used to get the ViewHolder by calling getChildViewHolder.

Parameters
@NonNull View view

The view that is a descendant of the RecyclerView.

Returns
@Nullable View

The direct child of the RecyclerView which contains the given view or null if the provided view is not a descendant of this RecyclerView.

findViewHolderForAdapterPosition

public @Nullable RecyclerView.ViewHolder findViewHolderForAdapterPosition(int position)

Return the ViewHolder for the item in the given position of the data set. Unlike findViewHolderForLayoutPosition this method takes into account any pending adapter changes that may not be reflected to the layout yet. On the other hand, if notifyDataSetChanged has been called but the new layout has not been calculated yet, this method will return null since the new positions of views are unknown until the layout is calculated.

This method checks only the children of RecyclerView. If the item at the given position is not laid out, it will not create a new one.

When the ItemAnimator is running a change animation, there might be 2 ViewHolders representing the same Item. In this case, the updated ViewHolder will be returned.

Parameters
int position

The position of the item in the data set of the adapter

findViewHolderForItemId

public RecyclerView.ViewHolder findViewHolderForItemId(long id)

Return the ViewHolder for the item with the given id. The RecyclerView must use an Adapter with stableIds to return a non-null value.

This method checks only the children of RecyclerView. If the item with the given id is not laid out, it will not create a new one. When the ItemAnimator is running a change animation, there might be 2 ViewHolders with the same id. In this case, the updated ViewHolder will be returned.

Parameters
long id

The id for the requested item

findViewHolderForLayoutPosition

public @Nullable RecyclerView.ViewHolder findViewHolderForLayoutPosition(int position)

Return the ViewHolder for the item in the given position of the data set as of the latest layout pass.

This method checks only the children of RecyclerView. If the item at the given position is not laid out, it will not create a new one.

Note that when Adapter contents change, ViewHolder positions are not updated until the next layout calculation. If there are pending adapter updates, the return value of this method may not match your adapter contents. You can use #getBindingAdapterPosition to get the current adapter position of a ViewHolder. If the Adapter that is assigned to the RecyclerView is an adapter that combines other adapters (e.g. ConcatAdapter), you can use the getBindingAdapter) to find the position relative to the Adapter that bound the ViewHolder.

When the ItemAnimator is running a change animation, there might be 2 ViewHolders with the same layout position representing the same Item. In this case, the updated ViewHolder will be returned.

Parameters
int position

The position of the item in the data set of the adapter

fling

public boolean fling(int velocityX, int velocityY)

Begin a standard fling with an initial velocity along each axis in pixels per second. If the velocity given is below the system-defined minimum this method will return false and no fling will occur.

Parameters
int velocityX

Initial horizontal velocity in pixels per second

int velocityY

Initial vertical velocity in pixels per second

Returns
boolean

true if the fling was started, false if the velocity was too low to fling or LayoutManager does not support scrolling in the axis fling is issued.

focusSearch

public View focusSearch(View focused, int direction)

Since RecyclerView is a collection ViewGroup that includes virtual children (items that are in the Adapter but not visible in the UI), it employs a more involved focus search strategy that differs from other ViewGroups.

It first does a focus search within the RecyclerView. If this search finds a View that is in the focus direction with respect to the currently focused View, RecyclerView returns that child as the next focus target. When it cannot find such child, it calls onFocusSearchFailed to layout more Views in the focus search direction. If LayoutManager adds a View that matches the focus search criteria, it will be returned as the focus search result. Otherwise, RecyclerView will call parent to handle the focus search like a regular ViewGroup.

When the direction is FOCUS_FORWARD or FOCUS_BACKWARD, a View that is not in the focus direction is still valid focus target which may not be the desired behavior if the Adapter has more children in the focus direction. To handle this case, RecyclerView converts the focus direction to an absolute direction and makes a preliminary focus search in that direction. If there are no Views to gain focus, it will call onFocusSearchFailed before running a focus search with the original (relative) direction. This allows RecyclerView to provide better candidates to the focus search while still allowing the view system to take focus from the RecyclerView and give it to a more suitable child if such child exists.

Returns
View

A new View that can be the next focus after the focused View

getBaseline

public int getBaseline()

Return the offset of the RecyclerView's text baseline from the its top boundary. If the LayoutManager of this RecyclerView does not support baseline alignment, this method returns -1.

Returns
int

the offset of the baseline within the RecyclerView's bounds or -1 if baseline alignment is not supported

getChildAdapterPosition

public int getChildAdapterPosition(@NonNull View child)

Return the adapter position that the given child view corresponds to.

Returns
int

Adapter position corresponding to the given view or NO_POSITION

getChildItemId

public long getChildItemId(@NonNull View child)

Return the stable item id that the given child view corresponds to.

Returns
long

Item id corresponding to the given view or NO_ID

getChildLayoutPosition

public int getChildLayoutPosition(@NonNull View child)

Return the adapter position of the given child view as of the latest completed layout pass.

This position may not be equal to Item's adapter position if there are pending changes in the adapter which have not been reflected to the layout yet.

Returns
int

Adapter position of the given View as of last layout pass or NO_POSITION if the View is representing a removed item.

getClipToPadding

public boolean getClipToPadding()

Returns whether this RecyclerView will clip its children to its padding, and resize (but not clip) any EdgeEffect to the padded region, if padding is present.

By default, children are clipped to the padding of their parent RecyclerView. This clipping behavior is only enabled if padding is non-zero.

name android:clipToPadding

Returns
boolean

true if this RecyclerView clips children to its padding and resizes (but doesn't clip) any EdgeEffect to the padded region, false otherwise.

getItemDecorationCount

public int getItemDecorationCount()

Returns the number of ItemDecoration currently added to this RecyclerView.

Returns
int

number of ItemDecorations currently added added to this RecyclerView.

getMaxFlingVelocity

public int getMaxFlingVelocity()

Returns the maximum fling velocity used by this RecyclerView.

Returns
int

The maximum fling velocity used by this RecyclerView.

getMinFlingVelocity

public int getMinFlingVelocity()

Returns the minimum velocity to start a fling.

Returns
int

The minimum velocity to start a fling

getPreserveFocusAfterLayout

public boolean getPreserveFocusAfterLayout()

Returns true if the RecyclerView should attempt to preserve currently focused Adapter Item's focus even if the View representing the Item is replaced during a layout calculation.

By default, this value is true.

Returns
boolean

True if the RecyclerView will try to preserve focused Item after a layout if it loses focus.

getScrollState

public int getScrollState()

Return the current scrolling state of the RecyclerView.

hasFixedSize

public boolean hasFixedSize()
Returns
boolean

true if the app has specified that changes in adapter content cannot change the size of the RecyclerView itself.

hasNestedScrollingParent

public boolean hasNestedScrollingParent(int type)

Returns true if this view has a nested scrolling parent for the given input type.

The presence of a nested scrolling parent indicates that this view has initiated a nested scroll and it was accepted by an ancestor view further up the view hierarchy.

Parameters
int type

the type of input which cause this scroll event

Returns
boolean

whether this view has a nested scrolling parent

hasPendingAdapterUpdates

public boolean hasPendingAdapterUpdates()

Returns whether there are pending adapter updates which are not yet applied to the layout.

If this method returns true, it means that what user is currently seeing may not reflect them adapter contents (depending on what has changed). You may use this information to defer or cancel some operations.

This method returns true if RecyclerView has not yet calculated the first layout after it is attached to the Window or the Adapter has been replaced.

Returns
boolean

True if there are some adapter updates which are not yet reflected to layout or false if layout is up to date.

invalidateItemDecorations

public void invalidateItemDecorations()

Invalidates all ItemDecorations. If RecyclerView has item decorations, calling this method will trigger a requestLayout call.

isAnimating

public boolean isAnimating()

Returns true if RecyclerView is currently running some animations.

If you want to be notified when animations are finished, use isRunning.

Returns
boolean

True if there are some item animations currently running or waiting to be started.

isAttachedToWindow

public boolean isAttachedToWindow()

Returns true if RecyclerView is attached to window.

isComputingLayout

public boolean isComputingLayout()

Returns whether RecyclerView is currently computing a layout.

If this method returns true, it means that RecyclerView is in a lockdown state and any attempt to update adapter contents will result in an exception because adapter contents cannot be changed while RecyclerView is trying to compute the layout.

It is very unlikely that your code will be running during this state as it is called by the framework when a layout traversal happens or RecyclerView starts to scroll in response to system events (touch, accessibility etc).

This case may happen if you have some custom logic to change adapter contents in response to a View callback (e.g. focus change callback) which might be triggered during a layout calculation. In these cases, you should just postpone the change using a Handler or a similar mechanism.

Returns
boolean

true if RecyclerView is currently computing a layout, false otherwise

isLayoutFrozen

public boolean isLayoutFrozen()
Returns
boolean

true if layout and scroll are frozen

isLayoutSuppressed

public final boolean isLayoutSuppressed()

Returns whether layout and scroll calls on this container are currently being suppressed, due to an earlier call to suppressLayout.

Returns
boolean

true if layout and scroll are currently suppressed, false otherwise.

nestedScrollBy

public void nestedScrollBy(int x, int y)

Same as scrollBy, but also participates in nested scrolling.

Parameters
int x

The amount of horizontal scroll requested

int y

The amount of vertical scroll requested

offsetChildrenHorizontal

public void offsetChildrenHorizontal(@Px int dx)

Offset the bounds of all child views by dx pixels. Useful for implementing simple scrolling in LayoutManagers.

Parameters
@Px int dx

Horizontal pixel offset to apply to the bounds of all child views

offsetChildrenVertical

public void offsetChildrenVertical(@Px int dy)

Offset the bounds of all child views by dy pixels. Useful for implementing simple scrolling in LayoutManagers.

Parameters
@Px int dy

Vertical pixel offset to apply to the bounds of all child views

onChildAttachedToWindow

public void onChildAttachedToWindow(@NonNull View child)

Called when an item view is attached to this RecyclerView.

Subclasses of RecyclerView may want to perform extra bookkeeping or modifications of child views as they become attached. This will be called before a LayoutManager measures or lays out the view and is a good time to perform these changes.

Parameters
@NonNull View child

Child view that is now attached to this RecyclerView and its associated window

onChildDetachedFromWindow

public void onChildDetachedFromWindow(@NonNull View child)

Called when an item view is detached from this RecyclerView.

Subclasses of RecyclerView may want to perform extra bookkeeping or modifications of child views as they become detached. This will be called as a LayoutManager fully detaches the child view from the parent and its window.

Parameters
@NonNull View child

Child view that is now detached from this RecyclerView and its associated window

onScrollStateChanged

public void onScrollStateChanged(int state)

Called when the scroll state of this RecyclerView changes. Subclasses should use this method to respond to state changes instead of an explicit listener.

This method will always be invoked before listeners, but after the LayoutManager responds to the scroll state change.

onScrolled

public void onScrolled(@Px int dx, @Px int dy)

Called when the scroll position of this RecyclerView changes. Subclasses should use this method to respond to scrolling within the adapter's data set instead of an explicit listener.

This method will always be invoked before listeners. If a subclass needs to perform any additional upkeep or bookkeeping after scrolling but before listeners run, this is a good place to do so.

This differs from onScrollChanged in that it receives the distance scrolled in either direction within the adapter's data set instead of absolute scroll coordinates. Since RecyclerView cannot compute the absolute scroll position from any arbitrary point in the data set, onScrollChanged will always receive the current getScrollX and getScrollY values which do not correspond to the data set scroll position. However, some subclasses may choose to use these fields as special offsets.

Parameters
@Px int dx

horizontal distance scrolled in pixels

@Px int dy

vertical distance scrolled in pixels

removeItemDecorationAt

public void removeItemDecorationAt(int index)

Removes the ItemDecoration associated with the supplied index position.

Parameters
int index

The index position of the ItemDecoration to be removed.

scrollBy

public void scrollBy(int x, int y)

scrollTo

public void scrollTo(int x, int y)

scrollToPosition

public void scrollToPosition(int position)

Convenience method to scroll to a certain position. RecyclerView does not implement scrolling logic, rather forwards the call to scrollToPosition

Parameters
int position

Scroll to this adapter position

setAdapter

public void setAdapter(@Nullable RecyclerView.Adapter adapter)

Set a new adapter to provide child views on demand.

When adapter is changed, all existing views are recycled back to the pool. If the pool has only one adapter, it will be cleared.

setDebugAssertionsEnabled

public static void setDebugAssertionsEnabled(boolean debugAssertionsEnabled)

Enable internal assertions about RecyclerView's state and throw exceptions if the assertions are violated.

This is primarily intended to diagnose problems with RecyclerView, and should not be enabled in production unless you have a specific reason to do so.

Enabling this may negatively affect performance and/or stability.

Parameters
boolean debugAssertionsEnabled

true to enable assertions; false to disable them

setHasFixedSize

public void setHasFixedSize(boolean hasFixedSize)

RecyclerView can perform several optimizations if it can know in advance that RecyclerView's size is not affected by the adapter contents. RecyclerView can still change its size based on other factors (e.g. its parent's size) but this size calculation cannot depend on the size of its children or contents of its adapter (except the number of items in the adapter).

If your use of RecyclerView falls into this category, set this to true. It will allow RecyclerView to avoid invalidating the whole layout when its adapter contents change.

Parameters
boolean hasFixedSize

true if adapter changes cannot affect the size of the RecyclerView.

setItemViewCacheSize

public void setItemViewCacheSize(int size)

Set the number of offscreen views to retain before adding them to the potentially shared recycled view pool.

The offscreen view cache stays aware of changes in the attached adapter, allowing a LayoutManager to reuse those views unmodified without needing to return to the adapter to rebind them.

Parameters
int size

Number of views to cache offscreen before returning them to the general recycled view pool

setLayoutFrozen

public void setLayoutFrozen(boolean frozen)

Enable or disable layout and scroll. After setLayoutFrozen(true) is called, Layout requests will be postponed until setLayoutFrozen(false) is called; child views are not updated when RecyclerView is frozen, smoothScrollBy, scrollBy, scrollToPosition and smoothScrollToPosition are dropped; TouchEvents and GenericMotionEvents are dropped; onFocusSearchFailed will not be called.

setLayoutFrozen(true) does not prevent app from directly calling scrollToPosition, smoothScrollToPosition.

setAdapter and swapAdapter will automatically stop frozen.

Note: Running ItemAnimator is not stopped automatically, it's caller's responsibility to call ItemAnimator.end().

Parameters
boolean frozen

true to freeze layout and scroll, false to re-enable.

setPreserveFocusAfterLayout

public void setPreserveFocusAfterLayout(boolean preserveFocusAfterLayout)

Set whether the RecyclerView should try to keep the same Item focused after a layout calculation or not.

Usually, LayoutManagers keep focused views visible before and after layout but sometimes, views may lose focus during a layout calculation as their state changes or they are replaced with another view due to type change or animation. In these cases, RecyclerView can request focus on the new view automatically.

Parameters
boolean preserveFocusAfterLayout

Whether RecyclerView should preserve focused Item during a layout calculations. Defaults to true.

setRecyclerListener

public void setRecyclerListener(@Nullable RecyclerView.RecyclerListener listener)

Register a listener that will be notified whenever a child view is recycled.

This listener will be called when a LayoutManager or the RecyclerView decides that a child view is no longer needed. If an application associates expensive or heavyweight data with item views, this may be a good place to release or free those resources.

setScrollingTouchSlop

public void setScrollingTouchSlop(int slopConstant)

Configure the scrolling touch slop for a specific use case. Set up the RecyclerView's scrolling motion threshold based on common usages. Valid arguments are TOUCH_SLOP_DEFAULT and TOUCH_SLOP_PAGING.

Parameters
int slopConstant

One of the TOUCH_SLOP_ constants representing the intended usage of this RecyclerView

setVerboseLoggingEnabled

public static void setVerboseLoggingEnabled(boolean verboseLoggingEnabled)

Enable verbose logging within RecyclerView itself.

Enabling this may negatively affect performance and reduce the utility of logcat due to high-volume logging. This generally should not be enabled in production unless you have a specific reason for doing so.

Parameters
boolean verboseLoggingEnabled

true to enable logging; false to disable it

smoothScrollBy

public void smoothScrollBy(@Px int dx, @Px int dy)

Animate a scroll by the given amount of pixels along either axis.

Parameters
@Px int dx

Pixels to scroll horizontally

@Px int dy

Pixels to scroll vertically

smoothScrollBy

public void smoothScrollBy(@Px int dx, @Px int dy, @Nullable Interpolator interpolator)

Animate a scroll by the given amount of pixels along either axis.

Parameters
@Px int dx

Pixels to scroll horizontally

@Px int dy

Pixels to scroll vertically

@Nullable Interpolator interpolator

Interpolator to be used for scrolling. If it is null, RecyclerView will use an internal default interpolator.

smoothScrollBy

public void smoothScrollBy(
    @Px int dx,
    @Px int dy,
    @Nullable Interpolator interpolator,
    int duration
)

Smooth scrolls the RecyclerView by a given distance.

Parameters
@Px int dx

x distance in pixels.

@Px int dy

y distance in pixels.

@Nullable Interpolator interpolator

Interpolator to be used for scrolling. If it is null, RecyclerView will use an internal default interpolator.

int duration

Duration of the animation in milliseconds. Set to UNDEFINED_DURATION to have the duration be automatically calculated based on an internally defined standard initial velocity. A duration less than 1 (that does not equal UNDEFINED_DURATION), will result in a call to scrollBy.

startNestedScroll

public boolean startNestedScroll(int axes, int type)

Begin a nestable scroll operation along the given axes, for the given input type.

A view starting a nested scroll promises to abide by the following contract:

The view will call startNestedScroll upon initiating a scroll operation. In the case of a touch scroll type this corresponds to the initial ACTION_DOWN. In the case of touch scrolling the nested scroll will be terminated automatically in the same manner as requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent. In the event of programmatic scrolling the caller must explicitly call stopNestedScroll to indicate the end of the nested scroll.

If startNestedScroll returns true, a cooperative parent was found. If it returns false the caller may ignore the rest of this contract until the next scroll. Calling startNestedScroll while a nested scroll is already in progress will return true.

At each incremental step of the scroll the caller should invoke dispatchNestedPreScroll once it has calculated the requested scrolling delta. If it returns true the nested scrolling parent at least partially consumed the scroll and the caller should adjust the amount it scrolls by.

After applying the remainder of the scroll delta the caller should invoke dispatchNestedScroll, passing both the delta consumed and the delta unconsumed. A nested scrolling parent may treat these values differently. See onNestedScroll.

Returns
boolean

true if a cooperative parent was found and nested scrolling has been enabled for the current gesture.

stopNestedScroll

public void stopNestedScroll(int type)

Stop a nested scroll in progress for the given input type.

Calling this method when a nested scroll is not currently in progress is harmless.

Parameters
int type

the type of input which cause this scroll event

stopScroll

public void stopScroll()

Stop any current scroll in progress, such as one started by smoothScrollBy, fling or a touch-initiated fling.

suppressLayout

public final void suppressLayout(boolean suppress)

Tells this RecyclerView to suppress all layout and scroll calls until layout suppression is disabled with a later call to suppressLayout(false). When layout suppression is disabled, a requestLayout() call is sent if requestLayout() was attempted while layout was being suppressed.

In addition to the layout suppression smoothScrollBy, scrollBy, scrollToPosition and smoothScrollToPosition are dropped; TouchEvents and GenericMotionEvents are dropped; onFocusSearchFailed will not be called.

suppressLayout(true) does not prevent app from directly calling scrollToPosition, smoothScrollToPosition.

setAdapter and swapAdapter will automatically stop suppressing.

Note: Running ItemAnimator is not stopped automatically, it's caller's responsibility to call ItemAnimator.end().

Parameters
boolean suppress

true to suppress layout and scroll, false to re-enable.

swapAdapter

public void swapAdapter(
    @Nullable RecyclerView.Adapter adapter,
    boolean removeAndRecycleExistingViews
)

Swaps the current adapter with the provided one. It is similar to setAdapter but assumes existing adapter and the new adapter uses the same ViewHolder and does not clear the RecycledViewPool.

Note that it still calls onAdapterChanged callbacks.

Parameters
@Nullable RecyclerView.Adapter adapter

The new adapter to set, or null to set no adapter.

boolean removeAndRecycleExistingViews

If set to true, RecyclerView will recycle all existing Views. If adapters have stable ids and/or you want to animate the disappearing views, you may prefer to set this to false.

Protected methods

onLayout

protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b)

onMeasure

protected void onMeasure(int widthSpec, int heightSpec)

onSizeChanged

protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh)