[android] How can I make sticky headers in RecyclerView? (Without external lib)

I've made my own variation of Sevastyan's solution above

class HeaderItemDecoration(recyclerView: RecyclerView, private val listener: StickyHeaderInterface) : RecyclerView.ItemDecoration() {

private val headerContainer = FrameLayout(recyclerView.context)
private var stickyHeaderHeight: Int = 0
private var currentHeader: View? = null
private var currentHeaderPosition = 0

init {
    val layout = RelativeLayout(recyclerView.context)
    val params = recyclerView.layoutParams
    val parent = recyclerView.parent as ViewGroup
    val index = parent.indexOfChild(recyclerView)
    parent.addView(layout, index, params)
    parent.removeView(recyclerView)
    layout.addView(recyclerView, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT)
    layout.addView(headerContainer, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
}

override fun onDrawOver(c: Canvas, parent: RecyclerView, state: RecyclerView.State) {
    super.onDrawOver(c, parent, state)

    val topChild = parent.getChildAt(0) ?: return

    val topChildPosition = parent.getChildAdapterPosition(topChild)
    if (topChildPosition == RecyclerView.NO_POSITION) {
        return
    }

    val currentHeader = getHeaderViewForItem(topChildPosition, parent)
    fixLayoutSize(parent, currentHeader)
    val contactPoint = currentHeader.bottom
    val childInContact = getChildInContact(parent, contactPoint) ?: return

    val nextPosition = parent.getChildAdapterPosition(childInContact)
    if (listener.isHeader(nextPosition)) {
        moveHeader(currentHeader, childInContact, topChildPosition, nextPosition)
        return
    }

    drawHeader(currentHeader, topChildPosition)
}

private fun getHeaderViewForItem(itemPosition: Int, parent: RecyclerView): View {
    val headerPosition = listener.getHeaderPositionForItem(itemPosition)
    val layoutResId = listener.getHeaderLayout(headerPosition)
    val header = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context).inflate(layoutResId, parent, false)
    listener.bindHeaderData(header, headerPosition)
    return header
}

private fun drawHeader(header: View, position: Int) {
    headerContainer.layoutParams.height = stickyHeaderHeight
    setCurrentHeader(header, position)
}

private fun moveHeader(currentHead: View, nextHead: View, currentPos: Int, nextPos: Int) {
    val marginTop = nextHead.top - currentHead.height
    if (currentHeaderPosition == nextPos && currentPos != nextPos) setCurrentHeader(currentHead, currentPos)

    val params = currentHeader?.layoutParams as? MarginLayoutParams ?: return
    params.setMargins(0, marginTop, 0, 0)
    currentHeader?.layoutParams = params

    headerContainer.layoutParams.height = stickyHeaderHeight + marginTop
}

private fun setCurrentHeader(header: View, position: Int) {
    currentHeader = header
    currentHeaderPosition = position
    headerContainer.removeAllViews()
    headerContainer.addView(currentHeader)
}

private fun getChildInContact(parent: RecyclerView, contactPoint: Int): View? =
        (0 until parent.childCount)
            .map { parent.getChildAt(it) }
            .firstOrNull { it.bottom > contactPoint && it.top <= contactPoint }

private fun fixLayoutSize(parent: ViewGroup, view: View) {

    val widthSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(parent.width, View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY)
    val heightSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(parent.height, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED)

    val childWidthSpec = ViewGroup.getChildMeasureSpec(widthSpec,
            parent.paddingLeft + parent.paddingRight,
            view.layoutParams.width)
    val childHeightSpec = ViewGroup.getChildMeasureSpec(heightSpec,
            parent.paddingTop + parent.paddingBottom,
            view.layoutParams.height)

    view.measure(childWidthSpec, childHeightSpec)

    stickyHeaderHeight = view.measuredHeight
    view.layout(0, 0, view.measuredWidth, stickyHeaderHeight)
}

interface StickyHeaderInterface {

    fun getHeaderPositionForItem(itemPosition: Int): Int

    fun getHeaderLayout(headerPosition: Int): Int

    fun bindHeaderData(header: View, headerPosition: Int)

    fun isHeader(itemPosition: Int): Boolean
}
}

... and here is implementation of StickyHeaderInterface (I did it directly in recycler adapter):

override fun getHeaderPositionForItem(itemPosition: Int): Int =
    (itemPosition downTo 0)
        .map { Pair(isHeader(it), it) }
        .firstOrNull { it.first }?.second ?: RecyclerView.NO_POSITION

override fun getHeaderLayout(headerPosition: Int): Int {
    /* ... 
      return something like R.layout.view_header
      or add conditions if you have different headers on different positions
    ... */
}

override fun bindHeaderData(header: View, headerPosition: Int) {
    if (headerPosition == RecyclerView.NO_POSITION) header.layoutParams.height = 0
    else /* ...
      here you get your header and can change some data on it
    ... */
}

override fun isHeader(itemPosition: Int): Boolean {
    /* ...
      here have to be condition for checking - is item on this position header
    ... */
}

So, in this case header is not just drawing on canvas, but view with selector or ripple, clicklistener, etc.

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