Android Recycler view using Grid Layout Manager equal spacing not working

Question

Recycler view item decoration not equally spaced when span count is odd. When I set even span, the spacing looks equal but when set odd span count the middle column spacing is little bit disturbed. How to resolve this issue? The code is:

final int spacing = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.recycler_spacing);
// apply spacing
recyclerView.setPadding(spacing, spacing, spacing, spacing);
recyclerView.setClipToPadding(false);
recyclerView.setClipChildren(false);
recyclerView.addItemDecoration(new RecyclerView.ItemDecoration() {
@Override
public void getItemOffsets(Rect outRect, View view, RecyclerView parent, RecyclerView.State state) {
    outRect.set(spacing, spacing, spacing, spacing);
}
});

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '20 at 14:30

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You can add margin in your row xml for equal spacing in your recyclerview. Its the easy way to add equal spacing between your list items.

answered Dec 18 '20 at 14:30

ahmad bajwa

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What? Left, Right margins will become double as span count increases. That's not the solution for equal spacing – Junaid Khan Dec 18 '20 at 14:33
no use margin="10dp" like this in your parent layout of your row this will now increases by items. – ahmad bajwa Dec 18 '20 at 14:36
like this. – ahmad bajwa Dec 18 '20 at 14:37
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This answer helped a lot when using constraint dimension ratio in recycler view. This link is also useful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43973185/constraintlayout-unable-to-scale-image-to-fit-a-ratio-in-recyclerview – Junaid Khan Dec 19 '20 at 07:20

Android Recycler view using Grid Layout Manager equal spacing not working

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