You can fully expand or collapse the App Bar with the setExpanded() method. One implementation could involve overriding dispatchTouchEvent() in your Activity class, and auto-collapsing/expanding your App Bar based on whether it is collapsed past the halfway point:
@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
float per = Math.abs(mAppBarLayout.getY()) / mAppBarLayout.getTotalScrollRange();
boolean setExpanded = (per <= 0.5F);
mAppBarLayout.setExpanded(setExpanded, true);
}
return super.dispatchTouchEvent(event);
}
In respect to automatically scrolling to the last position on a fling, I have put some code on GitHub that shows how to programmatically smooth scroll to a specific location that may help. Calling a scroll to list.size() - 1 on a fling for instance could replicate the behaviour. Parts of this code by the way are adapted from the StylingAndroid and Novoda blogs:
public class RecyclerLayoutManager extends LinearLayoutManager {
private AppBarManager mAppBarManager;
private int visibleHeightForRecyclerView;
public RecyclerLayoutManager(Context context) {
super(context);
}
@Override
public void smoothScrollToPosition(RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.State state, int position) {
View firstVisibleChild = recyclerView.getChildAt(0);
final int childHeight = firstVisibleChild.getHeight();
int distanceInPixels = ((findFirstVisibleItemPosition() - position) * childHeight);
if (distanceInPixels == 0) {
distanceInPixels = (int) Math.abs(firstVisibleChild.getY());
}
//Called Once
if (visibleHeightForRecyclerView == 0) {
visibleHeightForRecyclerView = mAppBarManager.getVisibleHeightForRecyclerViewInPx();
}
//Subtract one as adapter position 0 based
final int visibleChildCount = visibleHeightForRecyclerView/childHeight - 1;
if (position <= visibleChildCount) {
//Scroll to the very top and expand the app bar
position = 0;
mAppBarManager.expandAppBar();
} else {
mAppBarManager.collapseAppBar();
}
SmoothScroller smoothScroller = new SmoothScroller(recyclerView.getContext(), Math.abs(distanceInPixels), 1000);
smoothScroller.setTargetPosition(position);
startSmoothScroll(smoothScroller);
}
public void setAppBarManager(AppBarManager appBarManager) {
mAppBarManager = appBarManager;
}
private class SmoothScroller extends LinearSmoothScroller {
private static final int TARGET_SEEK_SCROLL_DISTANCE_PX = 10000;
private final float distanceInPixels;
private final float duration;
public SmoothScroller(Context context, int distanceInPixels, int duration) {
super(context);
this.distanceInPixels = distanceInPixels;
float millisecondsPerPx = calculateSpeedPerPixel(context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics());
this.duration = distanceInPixels < TARGET_SEEK_SCROLL_DISTANCE_PX ?
(int) (Math.abs(distanceInPixels) * millisecondsPerPx) : duration;
}
@Override
public PointF computeScrollVectorForPosition(int targetPosition) {
return RecyclerLayoutManager.this
.computeScrollVectorForPosition(targetPosition);
}
@Override
protected int calculateTimeForScrolling(int dx) {
float proportion = (float) dx / distanceInPixels;
return (int) (duration * proportion);
}
}
}
Edit:
AppBarManager in the above code snippet refers to an interface used to communicate with the AppBarLayout in an Activity. Collapse/expand app bar methods do just that, with animations. The final method is used to calculate the number of RecyclerView rows visible on screen:
AppBarManager.java
public interface AppBarManager {
void collapseAppBar();
void expandAppBar();
int getVisibleHeightForRecyclerViewInPx();
}
MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements AppBarManager{
@Override
public void collapseAppBar() {
mAppBarLayout.setExpanded(false, true);
}
@Override
public void expandAppBar() {
mAppBarLayout.setExpanded(true, true);
}
@Override
public int getVisibleHeightForRecyclerViewInPx() {
if (mRecyclerFragment == null) mRecyclerFragment =
(RecyclerFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(RecyclerFragment.TAG);
int windowHeight, appBarHeight, headerViewHeight;
windowHeight = getWindow().getDecorView().getHeight();
appBarHeight = mAppBarLayout.getHeight();
headerViewHeight = mRecyclerFragment.getHeaderView().getHeight();
return windowHeight - (appBarHeight + headerViewHeight);
}
