How to know when the RecyclerView has finished laying down the items?

Question

I have a RecyclerView that is inside a CardView. The CardView has a height of 500dp, but I want to shorten this height if the Re

Answer 1

I tried this and it worked for me. Here is the Kotlin extension

fun RecyclerView.runWhenReady(action: () -> Unit) {
    val globalLayoutListener = object: ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener {
        override fun onGlobalLayout() {
            action()
            viewTreeObserver.removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this)
        }
    }
    viewTreeObserver.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(globalLayoutListener)
}

then call it

myRecyclerView.runWhenReady {
    // Your action
}