How to exclude an element from a Firestore query?

Question

I have a collection of users and I want to query all users from the database and display them in a RecyclerView except one, mine. This is my db

Answer 1

After days and days of struggling with this issue, I finally found the answer. I could not solve this without the help of @Raj. Thank you so much @Raj for the patience and guidance.

First off all, according to the answer provided by @Frank van Puffelen in his answer from this post, I stopped searching for a solution that can help me pass two queries to a single adapter.

In this question, all that I wanted to achieve was to query the database to get all the users except one, me. So because we cannot combine two queries into a single instance, I found that we can combine the result of both queries. So I have created two queries:

FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
Query firstQuery = db.collection("users").whereLessThan("uid", uid);
Query secondQuery = db.collection("users").whereGreaterThan("uid", uid);

I'm having a UserModel (POJO) class for my user object. I found not one, but two ways to solve the problem. The first one would be to query the database to get all user objects that correspond to the first criteria and add them to a list. After that, query the database again and get the other user objects that correspond to the second criteria and add them to the same list. Now I have a list that contains all the users that I need but one, the one with that particular id from the queries. This is the code for future visitors:

firstQuery.get().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task task) {
        List list = new ArrayList<>();
        if (task.isSuccessful()) {
            for (DocumentSnapshot document : task.getResult()) {
                UserModel userModel = document.toObject(UserModel.class);
                list.add(userModel);
            }

            secondQuery.get().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener() {
                @Override
                public void onComplete(@NonNull Task task) {
                    if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                        for (DocumentSnapshot document : task.getResult()) {
                            UserModel userModel = document.toObject(UserModel.class);
                            list.add(userModel);
                        }

                        //Use the list of users
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }
});

The second approach would be much shorter because I use Tasks.whenAllSuccess() like this:

Task firstTask = firstQuery.get();
Task secondTask = secondQuery.get();

Task combinedTask = Tasks.whenAllSuccess(firstTask, secondTask).addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener>() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(List