The new Material Design of Google recommends to use floating action buttons to draw attention to the user for the main action on that screen. There are quite a lot of examples o
Add bottom padding to the RecyclerView. Also, don't use android:layout_height="wrap_content" unless you've overridden onMeasurein the layout manager. Current layout managers do not yet support wrap content.
Add the attribute android:clipToPadding="false" to achieve the goal. As mentioned in comments.