Equivalent of ListView.setEmptyView in RecyclerView

Question

In RecyclerView, I want to set an empty view to be shown when the adapter is empty. Is there an equivalent of ListView.setEmptyView()?

Answer 1

Solution provided in this link seems perfect. It uses viewType to identify when to show emptyView. No need to create custom RecyclerView

Adding code from the above link:

package com.example.androidsampleproject;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class RecyclerViewActivity extends Activity {

RecyclerView recyclerView;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_recycler_view);
    recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.myList);
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
    recyclerView.setAdapter(new MyAdapter());
}


private class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter {
    private List dataList = new ArrayList();

    public class EmptyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        public EmptyViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
        }
    }

    public class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        TextView data;

        public ViewHolder(View v) {
            super(v);
            data = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.data_view);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return dataList.size() > 0 ? dataList.size() : 1;
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        if (dataList.size() == 0) {
            return EMPTY_VIEW;
        }
        return super.getItemViewType(position);
    }


    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder vho, final int pos) {
        if (vho instanceof ViewHolder) {
            ViewHolder vh = (ViewHolder) vho;
            String pi = dataList.get(pos);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View v;

        if (viewType == EMPTY_VIEW) {
            v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.empty_view, parent, false);
            EmptyViewHolder evh = new EmptyViewHolder(v);
            return evh;
        }

        v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.data_row, parent, false);
        ViewHolder vh = new ViewHolder(v);
        return vh;
    }

    private static final int EMPTY_VIEW = 10;
}

}