[android] Recyclerview inside ScrollView not scrolling smoothly

For my app I am using a RecyclerView inside a ScrollView where the RecyclerView has a height based on its content using this library. Scrolling is working but it's not working smoothly when I scroll over the RecyclerView. When I scroll over the ScrollView itself it is scrolling smoothly.

The code I am using to define the RecyclerView:

LinearLayoutManager friendsLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity().getApplicationContext(), android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL, false);
mFriendsListView.setLayoutManager(friendsLayoutManager);
mFriendsListView.addItemDecoration(new DividerItemDecoration(getActivity().getApplicationContext(), null));

The RecyclerView in the ScrollView:

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    android:id="@+id/friendsList"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

I had similar issues (I tried to create a nested RecyclerViews something like Google PlayStore design). The best way to deal with this is by subclassing the child RecyclerViews and overriding the 'onInterceptTouchEvent' and 'onTouchEvent' methods. This way you get complete control of how those events behave and eventually scrolling.

I only needed to use this:

mMyRecyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

in my onCreateView() method.

Thanks a lot!

You can use this way either :

Add this line to your recyclerView xml file :

android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"

Or in java code :

RecyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

Hope this helped .

Replacing ScrollView with NestedScrollView resulted into smooth scrolling to the bottom.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent">

        <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent">

            <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
                android:id="@+id/constraintlayout_main"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="@dimen/layout_width_height_fortyfive"
                android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/padding_margin_sixteen"
                android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/padding_margin_sixteen"
                app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent">

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/textview_settings"
                    style="@style/textviewHeaderMain"
                    android:gravity="start"
                    android:text="@string/app_name"
                    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" />

            </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

            <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
                android:id="@+id/constraintlayout_recyclerview"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/padding_margin_zero"
                android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/padding_margin_zero"
                android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/padding_margin_zero"
                app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/constraintlayout_main">

                <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                    android:id="@+id/recyclerview_list"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
                    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" />

            </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

        </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

    </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

This code is working for in ConstraintLayout android

XML code:

<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

            <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:clipToPadding="false" />

        </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

in java code :

  recycleView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recycleView);
     recycleView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

Summary of all answers (Advantages & Disadvantages)

For single recyclerview

you can use it inside Coordinator layout.

Advantage - it will not load entire recyclerview items. So smooth loading.

Disadvantage - you can't load two recyclerview inside Coordinator layout - it produce scrolling problems

reference - https://stackoverflow.com/a/33143512/3879847

For multiple recylerview with minimum rows

you can load inside NestedScrollView

Advantage - it will scroll smoothly

Disadvantage - It load all rows of recyclerview so your activity open with delay

reference - https://stackoverflow.com/a/33143512/3879847

For multiple recylerview with large rows(more than 100)

You must go with recyclerview.

Advantage - Scroll smoothly, load smoothly

Disadvantage - You need to write more code and logic

Load each recylerview inside main recyclerview with help of multi-viewholders

ex:

MainRecyclerview

-ChildRecyclerview1 (ViewHolder1)

-ChildRecyclerview2 (ViewHolder2)

-ChildRecyclerview3 (ViewHolder3) 

-Any other layout   (ViewHolder4)

Reference for multi-viewHolder - https://stackoverflow.com/a/26245463/3879847

Using Nested Scroll View instead of Scroll View solved my problem

<LinearLayout> <!--Main Layout -->
   <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>
     <LinearLayout > <!--Nested Scoll View enclosing Layout -->`

       <View > <!-- upper content --> 
       <RecyclerView >


     </LinearLayout > 
   </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

You can try with both the ways with XML and programmatically. But the issue you may face is (below API 21) by doing it with XML will not work . So it's better to set it programmatically in your Activity / Fragment.

XML code:

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
      android:id="@+id/recycleView"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:visibility="gone"
      android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_below="@+id/linearLayoutBottomText" /> 

Programmatically:

 recycleView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recycleView);
 recycleView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

Simple Add this line into your JAVA class

list.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

If you are using VideoView or heavy weight widgets in your childviews keep your RecyclerView with height wrap_content inside a NestedScrollView with height match_parent Then scrolling will work smooth as perfectly as you want it.

FYI,

<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:clipToPadding="false" />

</android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

Thanks Micro this was from your hint!

karthik

Kotlin

Set isNestedScrollingEnabled to false for every RecyclerView that is under the scrolling view

val recyclerView = findViewById<RecyclerView>(R.id.recyclerView)
recyclerView.isNestedScrollingEnabled = false

Using XML Layout

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    android:id="@+id/friendsList"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Every answer is same here. and i already used what everyone is suggested. Then i found that NestedScrollView is faster then ScrollView so

use

<androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView

Instead of

<ScrollView

And use this as usual

recycleView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

Or you can just set android:focusableInTouchMode="true" in your recycler view