RecyclerView.Adapter

public final void bindViewHolder(@NonNull VH holder, int position)

This method internally calls onBindViewHolder to update the ViewHolder contents with the item at the given position and also sets up some private fields to be used by RecyclerView. Adapters that merge other adapters should use bindViewHolder when calling nested adapters so that RecyclerView can track which adapter bound the ViewHolder to return the correct position from getBindingAdapterPosition method. They should also override the findRelativeAdapterPositionIn method.

public final @NonNull VH createViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType)

This method calls onCreateViewHolder to create a new ViewHolder and initializes some private fields to be used by RecyclerView.

public int findRelativeAdapterPositionIn(
    @NonNull RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> adapter,
    @NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder,
    int localPosition
)

Returns the position of the given ViewHolder in the given Adapter. If the given Adapter is not part of this Adapter, NO_POSITION is returned.

public abstract int getItemCount()

Returns the total number of items in the data set held by the adapter.

public long getItemId(int position)

Return the stable ID for the item at position. If hasStableIds would return false this method should return NO_ID. The default implementation of this method returns NO_ID.

public int getItemViewType(int position)

Return the view type of the item at position for the purposes of view recycling.

The default implementation of this method returns 0, making the assumption of a single view type for the adapter. Unlike ListView adapters, types need not be contiguous. Consider using id resources to uniquely identify item view types.

public final @NonNull RecyclerView.Adapter.StateRestorationPolicy getStateRestorationPolicy()

Returns when this Adapter wants to restore the state.

public final boolean hasObservers()

Returns true if one or more observers are attached to this adapter.

public final boolean hasStableIds()

Returns true if this adapter publishes a unique long value that can act as a key for the item at a given position in the data set. If that item is relocated in the data set, the ID returned for that item should be the same.

public final void notifyDataSetChanged()

Notify any registered observers that the data set has changed.

There are two different classes of data change events, item changes and structural changes. Item changes are when a single item has its data updated but no positional changes have occurred. Structural changes are when items are inserted, removed or moved within the data set.

This event does not specify what about the data set has changed, forcing any observers to assume that all existing items and structure may no longer be valid. LayoutManagers will be forced to fully rebind and relayout all visible views.

RecyclerView will attempt to synthesize visible structural change events for adapters that report that they have stable IDs when this method is used. This can help for the purposes of animation and visual object persistence but individual item views will still need to be rebound and relaid out.

If you are writing an adapter it will always be more efficient to use the more specific change events if you can. Rely on notifyDataSetChanged() as a last resort.

public final void notifyItemChanged(int position)

Notify any registered observers that the item at position has changed. Equivalent to calling notifyItemChanged(position, null);.

This is an item change event, not a structural change event. It indicates that any reflection of the data at position is out of date and should be updated. The item at position retains the same identity.

public final void notifyItemChanged(int position, @Nullable Object payload)

Notify any registered observers that the item at position has changed with an optional payload object.

This is an item change event, not a structural change event. It indicates that any reflection of the data at position is out of date and should be updated. The item at position retains the same identity.

Client can optionally pass a payload for partial change. These payloads will be merged and may be passed to adapter's onBindViewHolder if the item is already represented by a ViewHolder and it will be rebound to the same ViewHolder. A notifyItemRangeChanged() with null payload will clear all existing payloads on that item and prevent future payload until onBindViewHolder is called. Adapter should not assume that the payload will always be passed to onBindViewHolder(), e.g. when the view is not attached, the payload will be simply dropped.

public final void notifyItemInserted(int position)

Notify any registered observers that the item reflected at position has been newly inserted. The item previously at position is now at position position + 1.

This is a structural change event. Representations of other existing items in the data set are still considered up to date and will not be rebound, though their positions may be altered.

public final void notifyItemMoved(int fromPosition, int toPosition)

Notify any registered observers that the item reflected at fromPosition has been moved to toPosition.

This is a structural change event. Representations of other existing items in the data set are still considered up to date and will not be rebound, though their positions may be altered.

public final void notifyItemRangeChanged(int positionStart, int itemCount)

Notify any registered observers that the itemCount items starting at position positionStart have changed. Equivalent to calling notifyItemRangeChanged(position, itemCount, null);.

This is an item change event, not a structural change event. It indicates that any reflection of the data in the given position range is out of date and should be updated. The items in the given range retain the same identity.

public final void notifyItemRangeChanged(
    int positionStart,
    int itemCount,
    @Nullable Object payload
)

Notify any registered observers that the itemCount items starting at position positionStart have changed. An optional payload can be passed to each changed item.

This is an item change event, not a structural change event. It indicates that any reflection of the data in the given position range is out of date and should be updated. The items in the given range retain the same identity.

Client can optionally pass a payload for partial change. These payloads will be merged and may be passed to adapter's onBindViewHolder if the item is already represented by a ViewHolder and it will be rebound to the same ViewHolder. A notifyItemRangeChanged() with null payload will clear all existing payloads on that item and prevent future payload until onBindViewHolder is called. Adapter should not assume that the payload will always be passed to onBindViewHolder(), e.g. when the view is not attached, the payload will be simply dropped.

public final void notifyItemRangeInserted(int positionStart, int itemCount)

Notify any registered observers that the currently reflected itemCount items starting at positionStart have been newly inserted. The items previously located at positionStart and beyond can now be found starting at position positionStart + itemCount.

This is a structural change event. Representations of other existing items in the data set are still considered up to date and will not be rebound, though their positions may be altered.

public final void notifyItemRangeRemoved(int positionStart, int itemCount)

Notify any registered observers that the itemCount items previously located at positionStart have been removed from the data set. The items previously located at and after positionStart + itemCount may now be found at oldPosition - itemCount.

This is a structural change event. Representations of other existing items in the data set are still considered up to date and will not be rebound, though their positions may be altered.

public final void notifyItemRemoved(int position)

Notify any registered observers that the item previously located at position has been removed from the data set. The items previously located at and after position may now be found at oldPosition - 1.

This is a structural change event. Representations of other existing items in the data set are still considered up to date and will not be rebound, though their positions may be altered.

public void onAttachedToRecyclerView(@NonNull RecyclerView recyclerView)

Called by RecyclerView when it starts observing this Adapter.

Keep in mind that same adapter may be observed by multiple RecyclerViews.

public abstract void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull VH holder, int position)

Called by RecyclerView to display the data at the specified position. This method should update the contents of the itemView to reflect the item at the given position.

Note that unlike android.widget.ListView, RecyclerView will not call this method again if the position of the item changes in the data set unless the item itself is invalidated or the new position cannot be determined. For this reason, you should only use the position parameter while acquiring the related data item inside this method and should not keep a copy of it. If you need the position of an item later on (e.g. in a click listener), use getBindingAdapterPosition which will have the updated adapter position. Override onBindViewHolder instead if Adapter can handle efficient partial bind.

public void onBindViewHolder(
    @NonNull VH holder,
    int position,
    @NonNull List<Object> payloads
)

Called by RecyclerView to display the data at the specified position. This method should update the contents of the itemView to reflect the item at the given position.

Note that unlike android.widget.ListView, RecyclerView will not call this method again if the position of the item changes in the data set unless the item itself is invalidated or the new position cannot be determined. For this reason, you should only use the position parameter while acquiring the related data item inside this method and should not keep a copy of it. If you need the position of an item later on (e.g. in a click listener), use getBindingAdapterPosition which will have the updated adapter position.

Partial bind vs full bind:

The payloads parameter is a merge list from notifyItemChanged or notifyItemRangeChanged. If the payloads list is not empty, the ViewHolder is currently bound to old data and Adapter may run an efficient partial update using the payload info. If the payload is empty, Adapter must run a full bind. Adapter should not assume that the payload passed in notify methods will be received by onBindViewHolder(). For example when the view is not attached to the screen, the payload in notifyItemChange() will be simply dropped.

public abstract @NonNull VH onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType)

Called when RecyclerView needs a new ViewHolder of the given type to represent an item.

This new ViewHolder should be constructed with a new View that can represent the items of the given type. You can either create a new View manually or inflate it from an XML layout file.

The new ViewHolder will be used to display items of the adapter using onBindViewHolder. Since it will be re-used to display different items in the data set, it is a good idea to cache references to sub views of the View to avoid unnecessary findViewById calls.

public void onDetachedFromRecyclerView(@NonNull RecyclerView recyclerView)

Called by RecyclerView when it stops observing this Adapter.

public boolean onFailedToRecycleView(@NonNull VH holder)

Called by the RecyclerView if a ViewHolder created by this Adapter cannot be recycled due to its transient state. Upon receiving this callback, Adapter can clear the animation(s) that effect the View's transient state and return true so that the View can be recycled. Keep in mind that the View in question is already removed from the RecyclerView.

In some cases, it is acceptable to recycle a View although it has transient state. Most of the time, this is a case where the transient state will be cleared in onBindViewHolder call when View is rebound to a new position. For this reason, RecyclerView leaves the decision to the Adapter and uses the return value of this method to decide whether the View should be recycled or not.

Note that when all animations are created by RecyclerView.ItemAnimator, you should never receive this callback because RecyclerView keeps those Views as children until their animations are complete. This callback is useful when children of the item views create animations which may not be easy to implement using an ItemAnimator.

You should never fix this issue by calling holder.itemView.setHasTransientState(false); unless you've previously called holder.itemView.setHasTransientState(true);. Each View.setHasTransientState(true) call must be matched by a View.setHasTransientState(false) call, otherwise, the state of the View may become inconsistent. You should always prefer to end or cancel animations that are triggering the transient state instead of handling it manually.

public void onViewAttachedToWindow(@NonNull VH holder)

Called when a view created by this adapter has been attached to a window.

This can be used as a reasonable signal that the view is about to be seen by the user. If the adapter previously freed any resources in onViewDetachedFromWindow those resources should be restored here.

public void onViewDetachedFromWindow(@NonNull VH holder)

Called when a view created by this adapter has been detached from its window.

Becoming detached from the window is not necessarily a permanent condition; the consumer of an Adapter's views may choose to cache views offscreen while they are not visible, attaching and detaching them as appropriate.

public void onViewRecycled(@NonNull VH holder)

Called when a view created by this adapter has been recycled.

A view is recycled when a LayoutManager decides that it no longer needs to be attached to its parent RecyclerView. This can be because it has fallen out of visibility or a set of cached views represented by views still attached to the parent RecyclerView. If an item view has large or expensive data bound to it such as large bitmaps, this may be a good place to release those resources.

RecyclerView calls this method right before clearing ViewHolder's internal data and sending it to RecycledViewPool. This way, if ViewHolder was holding valid information before being recycled, you can call getBindingAdapterPosition to get its adapter position.

public void registerAdapterDataObserver(
    @NonNull RecyclerView.AdapterDataObserver observer
)

Register a new observer to listen for data changes.

The adapter may publish a variety of events describing specific changes. Not all adapters may support all change types and some may fall back to a generic "something changed" event if more specific data is not available.

Components registering observers with an adapter are responsible for unregistering those observers when finished.

public void setHasStableIds(boolean hasStableIds)

Indicates whether each item in the data set can be represented with a unique identifier of type java.lang.Long.

public void setStateRestorationPolicy(
    @NonNull RecyclerView.Adapter.StateRestorationPolicy strategy
)

Sets the state restoration strategy for the Adapter. By default, it is set to ALLOW which means RecyclerView expects any set Adapter to be immediately capable of restoring the RecyclerView's saved scroll position.

This behaviour might be undesired if the Adapter's data is loaded asynchronously, and thus unavailable during initial layout (e.g. after Activity rotation). To avoid losing scroll position, you can change this to be either PREVENT_WHEN_EMPTY or PREVENT. Note that the former means your RecyclerView will restore state as soon as Adapter has 1 or more items while the latter requires you to call setStateRestorationPolicy with either ALLOW or PREVENT_WHEN_EMPTY again when the Adapter is ready to restore its state.

RecyclerView will still layout even when State restoration is disabled. The behavior of how State is restored is up to the LayoutManager. All default LayoutManagers will override current state with restored state when state restoration happens (unless an explicit call to scrollToPosition is made).

Calling this method after state is restored will not have any effect other than changing the return value of getStateRestorationPolicy.

public void unregisterAdapterDataObserver(
    @NonNull RecyclerView.AdapterDataObserver observer
)

Unregister an observer currently listening for data changes.

The unregistered observer will no longer receive events about changes to the adapter.