LinearLayoutManager setReverseLayout() == true but items stack from bottom

Question

This seems like it would be an easy solution, but it seems that setting

private RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
private RecyclerView.Adapter mAdapter;
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Answer 1

The accepted answer works well and I went through a hardship to make it work as I was getting can not resolve method setReverseLayout error.

Then after searching for solutions I found there was a silly mistake out there. I was using RecyclerView.LayoutManager instead of LinearLayoutManager.

So I thought to remove the confusions around here I need to put it as an answer.

Do not use RecyclerView.LayoutManager instead of LinearLayoutManager

// Declare your RecyclerView and the LinearLayoutManager like this 
private RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
private LinearLayoutManager mLayoutManager;

...

// Now set the properties of the LinearLayoutManager 
mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(MainActivity.this);
mLayoutManager.setReverseLayout(true);
mLayoutManager.setStackFromEnd(true);

// And now set it to the RecyclerView
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
mRecyclerView.setAdapter(yourAdapter);