RecyclerView GridLayoutManager: how to auto-detect span count?

Question

Using the new GridLayoutManager: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/GridLayoutManager.html

It takes an explicit span count, so the pro

Answer 1

To accommodate orientation change on s-marks's answer, I added a check on width change (width from getWidth(), not column width).

private boolean mWidthChanged = true;
private int mWidth;


@Override
public void onLayoutChildren(RecyclerView.Recycler recycler, RecyclerView.State state)
{
    int width = getWidth();
    int height = getHeight();

    if (width != mWidth) {
        mWidthChanged = true;
        mWidth = width;
    }

    if (mColumnWidthChanged && mColumnWidth > 0 && width > 0 && height > 0
            || mWidthChanged)
    {
        int totalSpace;
        if (getOrientation() == VERTICAL)
        {
            totalSpace = width - getPaddingRight() - getPaddingLeft();
        }
        else
        {
            totalSpace = height - getPaddingTop() - getPaddingBottom();
        }
        int spanCount = Math.max(1, totalSpace / mColumnWidth);
        setSpanCount(spanCount);
        mColumnWidthChanged = false;
        mWidthChanged = false;
    }
    super.onLayoutChildren(recycler, state);
}