How do I get the position selected in a RecyclerView?

Question

I am experimenting with the support library\'s recyclerview and cards. I have a recyclerview of cards. Each card has an \'x\' icon at the top right corner to remove it:

Answer 1

No need to have your ViewHolder implementing View.OnClickListener. You can get directly the clicked position by setting a click listener in the method onCreateViewHolder of RecyclerView.Adapter here is a sample of code :

public class ItemListAdapterRecycler extends RecyclerView.Adapter
{

    private final List items;

    public ItemListAdapterRecycler(List items)
    {
        this.items = items;
    }

    @Override
    public ItemViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(final ViewGroup parent, int viewType)
    {
        View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.item_row, parent, false);

        view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view)
            {
                int currentPosition = getClickedPosition(view);
                Log.d("DEBUG", "" + currentPosition);
            }
        });

        return new ItemViewHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(ItemViewHolder itemViewHolder, int position)
    {
        ...
    }

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

    private int getClickedPosition(View clickedView)
    {
        RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) clickedView.getParent();
        ItemViewHolder currentViewHolder = (ItemViewHolder) recyclerView.getChildViewHolder(clickedView);
        return currentViewHolder.getAdapterPosition();
    }

}