[android] Recyclerview and handling different type of row inflation

I'm trying to work with the new RecyclerView, but I could not find an example of a RecyclerView with different types of rows/cardviews getting inflated.

With ListView I override the getViewTypeCount and getItemViewType, for handling different types of rows.

Am I supposed to do it like the "old" way or should I do something with LayoutManager? I was wondering if someone could point me to the right direction. Because I can only find examples with one type.

I want to have a list of slightly different cards. Or should I just use a scrollView with cardViews inside of it...make it without the adapter and recyclerView?

You have to implement getItemViewType() method in RecyclerView.Adapter. By default onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) implementation viewType of this method returns 0. Firstly you need view type of the item at position for the purposes of view recycling and for that you have to override getItemViewType() method in which you can pass viewType which will return your position of item. Code sample is given below

@Override
public MyViewholder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    int listViewItemType = getItemViewType(viewType);
    switch (listViewItemType) {
         case 0: return new ViewHolder0(...);
         case 2: return new ViewHolder2(...);
    }
}

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {   
    return position;
}

// and in the similar way you can set data according 
// to view holder position by passing position in getItemViewType
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(MyViewholder viewholder, int position) {
    int listViewItemType = getItemViewType(position);
    // ...
}

You can just return ItemViewType and use it. See below code:

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {

    Message item = messageList.get(position);
    // return my message layout
    if(item.getUsername() == Message.userEnum.I)
        return R.layout.item_message_me;
    else
        return R.layout.item_message; // return other message layout
}

@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup viewGroup, int viewType) {
    View view = LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.getContext()).inflate(viewType, viewGroup, false);
    return new ViewHolder(view);
}

getItemViewType(int position) is the key

In my opinion,the starting point to create this kind of recyclerView is the knowledge of this method. Since this method is optional to override therefore it is not visible in RecylerView class by default which in turn makes many developers(including me) wonder where to begin. Once you know that this method exists, creating such RecyclerView would be a cakewalk.

How to do it ?

You can create a RecyclerView with any number of different Views(ViewHolders). But for better readability lets take an example of RecyclerView with two Viewholders.
Remember these 3 simple steps and you will be good to go.

• Override public int getItemViewType(int position)
• Return different ViewHolders based on the ViewType in onCreateViewHolder() method

• Populate View based on the itemViewType in onBindViewHolder() method

  Here is a code snippet for you

  public class YourListAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {
  
      private static final int LAYOUT_ONE= 0;
      private static final int LAYOUT_TWO= 1;
  
      @Override
      public int getItemViewType(int position)
      {
          if(position==0)
             return LAYOUT_ONE;
          else
             return LAYOUT_TWO;
      }
  
      @Override
      public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
  
          View view =null;
          RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder = null;
  
          if(viewType==LAYOUT_ONE)
          {
             view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.one,parent,false);
             viewHolder = new ViewHolderOne(view);
          }
          else
          {
             view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.two,parent,false);
             viewHolder= new ViewHolderTwo(view);
          }
  
          return viewHolder;
      }
  
      @Override
      public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, final int position) {
  
         if(holder.getItemViewType()== LAYOUT_ONE)
         {
             // Typecast Viewholder 
             // Set Viewholder properties 
             // Add any click listener if any 
         }
         else {
  
             ViewHolderOne vaultItemHolder = (ViewHolderOne) holder;
             vaultItemHolder.name.setText(displayText);
             vaultItemHolder.name.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                 @Override
                 public void onClick(View v) {
                     .......
                 }
             });
  
         }
  
     }
  
     /****************  VIEW HOLDER 1 ******************//
  
     public class ViewHolderOne extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
  
         public TextView name;
  
         public ViewHolderOne(View itemView) {
         super(itemView);
         name = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.displayName);
         }
     }
  
  
    //****************  VIEW HOLDER 2 ******************//
  
    public class ViewHolderTwo extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{
  
         public ViewHolderTwo(View itemView) {
         super(itemView);
  
             ..... Do something
         }
    }
  }
  

GitHub Code:

Here is a project where I have implemented a RecyclerView with multiple ViewHolders.

You can use the library: https://github.com/vivchar/RendererRecyclerViewAdapter

mRecyclerViewAdapter = new RendererRecyclerViewAdapter(); /* included from library */
mRecyclerViewAdapter.registerRenderer(new SomeViewRenderer(SomeModel.TYPE, this));
mRecyclerViewAdapter.registerRenderer(...); /* you can use several types of cells */

For each item, you should to implement a ViewRenderer, ViewHolder, SomeModel:

ViewHolder - it is a simple view holder of recycler view.

SomeModel - it is your model with ItemModel interface

public class SomeViewRenderer extends ViewRenderer<SomeModel, SomeViewHolder> {

    public SomeViewRenderer(final int type, final Context context) {
        super(type, context);
    }

    @Override
    public void bindView(@NonNull final SomeModel model, @NonNull final SomeViewHolder holder) {
       holder.mTitle.setText(model.getTitle());
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public SomeViewHolder createViewHolder(@Nullable final ViewGroup parent) {
        return new SomeViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.some_item, parent, false));
    }
}

For more details you can look documentations.

It is quite tricky but that much hard, just copy the below code and you are done

package com.yuvi.sample.main;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;


import com.yuvi.sample.R;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by yubraj on 6/17/15.
 */

public class NavDrawerAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<NavDrawerAdapter.MainViewHolder> {
    List<MainOption> mainOptionlist;
    Context context;
    private static final int TYPE_PROFILE = 1;
    private static final int TYPE_OPTION_MENU = 2;
    private int selectedPos = 0;
    public NavDrawerAdapter(Context context){
        this.mainOptionlist = MainOption.getDrawableDataList();
        this.context = context;
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        return (position == 0? TYPE_PROFILE : TYPE_OPTION_MENU);
    }

    @Override
    public MainViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        switch (viewType){
            case TYPE_PROFILE:
                return new ProfileViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.row_profile, parent, false));
            case TYPE_OPTION_MENU:
                return new MyViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.row_nav_drawer, parent, false));
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(MainViewHolder holder, int position) {
        if(holder.getItemViewType() == TYPE_PROFILE){
            ProfileViewHolder mholder = (ProfileViewHolder) holder;
            setUpProfileView(mholder);
        }
        else {
            MyViewHolder mHolder = (MyViewHolder) holder;
            MainOption mo = mainOptionlist.get(position);
            mHolder.tv_title.setText(mo.title);
            mHolder.iv_icon.setImageResource(mo.icon);
            mHolder.itemView.setSelected(selectedPos == position);
        }
    }

    private void setUpProfileView(ProfileViewHolder mholder) {

    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mainOptionlist.size();
    }




public class MyViewHolder extends MainViewHolder{
    TextView tv_title;
    ImageView iv_icon;

    public MyViewHolder(View v){
        super(v);
        this.tv_title = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tv_title);
        this.iv_icon = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.iv_icon);
        v.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // Redraw the old selection and the new
                notifyItemChanged(selectedPos);
                selectedPos = getLayoutPosition();
                notifyItemChanged(selectedPos);
            }
        });
    }
}
    public class ProfileViewHolder extends MainViewHolder{
        TextView tv_name, login;
        ImageView iv_profile;

        public ProfileViewHolder(View v){
            super(v);
            this.tv_name = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tv_profile);
            this.iv_profile = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.iv_profile);
            this.login = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tv_login);
        }
    }

    public void trace(String tag, String message){
        Log.d(tag , message);
    }
    public class MainViewHolder extends  RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        public MainViewHolder(View v) {
            super(v);
        }
    }


}

enjoy !!!!

You can use this library:
https://github.com/kmfish/MultiTypeListViewAdapter (written by me)

• Better reuse the code of one cell
• Better expansion
• Better decoupling

Setup adapter:

adapter = new BaseRecyclerAdapter();
adapter.registerDataAndItem(TextModel.class, LineListItem1.class);
adapter.registerDataAndItem(ImageModel.class, LineListItem2.class);
adapter.registerDataAndItem(AbsModel.class, AbsLineItem.class);

For each line item:

public class LineListItem1 extends BaseListItem<TextModel, LineListItem1.OnItem1ClickListener> {

    TextView tvName;
    TextView tvDesc;


    @Override
    public int onGetLayoutRes() {
        return R.layout.list_item1;
    }

    @Override
    public void bindViews(View convertView) {
        Log.d("item1", "bindViews:" + convertView);
        tvName = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.text_name);
        tvDesc = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.text_desc);

        tvName.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (null != attachInfo) {
                    attachInfo.onNameClick(getData());
                }
            }
        });
        tvDesc.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (null != attachInfo) {
                    attachInfo.onDescClick(getData());
                }
            }
        });

    }

    @Override
    public void updateView(TextModel model, int pos) {
        if (null != model) {
            Log.d("item1", "updateView model:" + model + "pos:" + pos);
            tvName.setText(model.getName());
            tvDesc.setText(model.getDesc());
        }
    }

    public interface OnItem1ClickListener {
        void onNameClick(TextModel model);
        void onDescClick(TextModel model);
    }
}

We can achieve multiple view on single RecyclerView from below way :-

Dependencies on Gradle so add below code:-

compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.0.1'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.0.1'

RecyclerView in XML

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
    android:id="@+id/recyclerView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

Activity Code

private RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
private CustomAdapter mAdapter;
private RecyclerView.LayoutManager mLayoutManager;
private String[] mDataset = {“Data - one ”, “Data - two”,
    “Showing data three”, “Showing data four”};
private int mDatasetTypes[] = {DataOne, DataTwo, DataThree}; //view types
 
...
 
mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recyclerView);
mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(MainActivity.this);
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
//Adapter is created in the last step
mAdapter = new CustomAdapter(mDataset, mDataSetTypes);
mRecyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);

First XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/cardview"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/ten"
    android:elevation="@dimen/hundered”
    card_view:cardBackgroundColor=“@color/black“>
 
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding=“@dimen/ten">
 
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text=“Fisrt”
            android:textColor=“@color/white“ />
 
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/temp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/ten"
            android:textColor="@color/white"
            android:textSize="30sp" />
    </LinearLayout>
 
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

Second XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/cardview"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/ten"
    android:elevation="100dp"
    card_view:cardBackgroundColor="#00bcd4">
 
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="@dimen/ten">
 
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text=“DataTwo”
            android:textColor="@color/white" />
 
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/score"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/ten"
            android:textColor="#ffffff"
            android:textSize="30sp" />
    </LinearLayout>
 
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

Third XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/cardview"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/ten"
    android:elevation="100dp"
    card_view:cardBackgroundColor="@color/white">
 
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="@dimen/ten">
 
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text=“DataThree” />
 
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/headline"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/ten"
            android:textSize="25sp" />
 
        <Button
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/ten"
            android:id="@+id/read_more"
            android:background="@color/white"
            android:text=“Show More” />
    </LinearLayout>
 
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

Now time to make adapter and this is main for showing different -2 view on same recycler view so please check this code focus fully :-

public class CustomAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<CustomAdapter.ViewHolder> {
    private static final String TAG = "CustomAdapter";
 
    private String[] mDataSet;
    private int[] mDataSetTypes;
 
    public static final int dataOne = 0;
    public static final int dataTwo = 1;
    public static final int dataThree = 2;
 
 
    public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        public ViewHolder(View v) {
            super(v);
        }
    }
 
    public class DataOne extends ViewHolder {
        TextView temp;
 
        public DataOne(View v) {
            super(v);
            this.temp = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.temp);
        }
    }
 
    public class DataTwo extends ViewHolder {
        TextView score;
 
        public DataTwo(View v) {
            super(v);
            this.score = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.score);
        }
    }
 
    public class DataThree extends ViewHolder {
        TextView headline;
        Button read_more;
 
        public DataThree(View v) {
            super(v);
            this.headline = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.headline);
            this.read_more = (Button) v.findViewById(R.id.read_more);
        }
    }
 
 
    public CustomAdapter(String[] dataSet, int[] dataSetTypes) {
        mDataSet = dataSet;
        mDataSetTypes = dataSetTypes;
    }
 
    @Override
    public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup viewGroup, int viewType) {
        View v;
        if (viewType == dataOne) {
            v = LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.getContext())
                    .inflate(R.layout.weather_card, viewGroup, false);
 
            return new DataOne(v);
        } else if (viewType == dataTwo) {
            v = LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.getContext())
                    .inflate(R.layout.news_card, viewGroup, false);
            return new DataThree(v);
        } else {
            v = LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.getContext())
                    .inflate(R.layout.score_card, viewGroup, false);
            return new DataTwo(v);
        }
    }
 
    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder viewHolder, final int position) {
        if (viewHolder.getItemViewType() == dataOne) {
            DataOne holder = (DataOne) viewHolder;
            holder.temp.setText(mDataSet[position]);
        }
        else if (viewHolder.getItemViewType() == dataTwo) {
            DataThree holder = (DataTwo) viewHolder;
            holder.headline.setText(mDataSet[position]);
        }
        else {
            DataTwo holder = (DataTwo) viewHolder;
            holder.score.setText(mDataSet[position]);
        }
    }
 
    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mDataSet.length;
    }
 
   @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        return mDataSetTypes[position];
    }
}

You can check also this link for more information.

The trick is to create subclasses of ViewHolder and then cast them.

public class GroupViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    TextView mTitle;
    TextView mContent;
    public GroupViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super (itemView);
        // init views...
    }
}

public class ImageViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    ImageView mImage;
    public ImageViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super (itemView);
        // init views...
    }
}

private static final int TYPE_IMAGE = 1;
private static final int TYPE_GROUP = 2;  

And then, at runtime do something like this:

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
    // here your custom logic to choose the view type
    return position == 0 ? TYPE_IMAGE : TYPE_GROUP;
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder (ViewHolder viewHolder, int i) {

    switch (viewHolder.getItemViewType()) {

        case TYPE_IMAGE:
            ImageViewHolder imageViewHolder = (ImageViewHolder) viewHolder;
            imageViewHolder.mImage.setImageResource(...);
            break;

        case TYPE_GROUP:
            GroupViewHolder groupViewHolder = (GroupViewHolder) viewHolder;
            groupViewHolder.mContent.setText(...)
            groupViewHolder.mTitle.setText(...);
            break;
    }
}

Hope it helps.

According to Gil great answer I solved by Overriding the getItemViewType as explained by Gil. His answer is great and have to be marked as correct. In any case, I add the code to reach the score:

In your recycler adapter:

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
    int viewType = 0;
    // add here your booleans or switch() to set viewType at your needed
    // I.E if (position == 0) viewType = 1; etc. etc.
    return viewType;
}

@Override
public FileViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    if (viewType == 0) {
        return new MyViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.my_layout_for_first_row, parent, false));
    }

    return new MyViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.my_other_rows, parent, false));
}

By doing this, you can set whatever custom layout for whatever row!