Programatically Scroll at the last position of recyclerview on header click

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I had a view with a netstedScroll and a recyclerView that I was using to display my data so my fragment was like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:id="@+id/scrollView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
                android:id="@+id/recyclerView"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                tools:itemCount="10"
                tools:listitem="@layout/row_header" />
</androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView>

The recyclerview had a custom adapter that I used is to get a recyclerview same as an expandable view (I didn't use the native one) and everything was great until my last update, so we decided to add more KPIs and informations on the recyclerview became at the very bottom of the view:

The problem now is when the user clicks on negociating, the list of products doesn't show automatically if he doesn't scroll manually, and feels like there isn't any changes. I want just on click of this part, to scroll, the problem is that I'm using a custom adapter:

private fun bindHeaderViewHolder(holder: RecyclerView.ViewHolder, position: Int, viewType: ViewType) {
        val dataIndex = viewType.dataIndex
        val headerViewHolder = holder as SectionHeaderViewHolder
        when(position){
           
            0 -> headerViewHolder.sectionTitle.text = "Sold out"
            1 -> headerViewHolder.sectionTitle.text = "Rent"
            2 -> headerViewHolder.sectionTitle.text = "On stock"
            3 -> headerViewHolder.sectionTitle.text = "Negociating"
        }
if (isExpanded(position)) {
            headerViewHolder.expandIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_expand_less_black_24dp)
            if(position == 3){
                Log.e("position delivered", "I'm here")
            }
        } else {
            headerViewHolder.expandIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_expand_more_black_24dp)
        }

Can someone help me or suggest a solution for that please?

Major point - never use recyclerview inside any scroll view or nested scroll view. Now about scrolling, you can use `recyclerView.scrollToPosition(items.size() - 1)` — Mohit Ajwani, May 17 '21 at 11:24
@MohitAjwani I can't use it inside the adapter, already tried that — Master49, May 17 '21 at 11:46
no you cannot use it inside the adapter, you need to perform it on recyclerView object. It can be done only from the fragment where you have the instance either using findViewById or kotlin synthetic or anything. You need to give callback to the fragment via a listener. — Mohit Ajwani, May 17 '21 at 11:50
just added recyclerView.addOnItemClickListener(object: OnItemClickListener{ override fun onItemClicked(position: Int, view: View) { recyclerView.scrollToPosition(adapter.itemCount - 1 ) } }) the onclicklistener in the adapter doesn't work anymore, can't expand my items now — Master49, May 17 '21 at 12:17
You cannot add item click on recyclerview. We need custom listener on header click. pass a listener reference to the adapter. on header viewholder - add a click listener. Inside that use your listener reference passed to the adapter and call the callback function. In the fragment where you are passing the listener, implement the function and add the scrollToPosition logic inside that. — Mohit Ajwani, May 17 '21 at 12:39
@MohitAjwani couldn't do anything using that logic, the page doesn't scroll — Master49, May 18 '21 at 09:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 12 '21 at 08:23

You can connect a listener to the adapter and called it when needed indicating the clicked position within the adapter:

class YourAdapter(val changeItemListener: (Int) -> Unit) : RecyclerView.Adapter<YourViewHolder>() {
    ...
    changeItemListener(position)
    ...
}

After that you can from Activity or fragment create the adapter with the listener and within the listener you can call scrollToPosition or whatever you may need.

viewModelAdapter = YourAdapter(changeItemListener = {position -> your_recyclerview.smoothScrollToPosition(position)})

Programatically Scroll at the last position of recyclerview on header click

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