How to set RecyclerView app:layoutManager=“” from XML?

Question

How to set RecyclerView layoutManager from XML?

Answer 1

And I came here looking for androidx version though it was pretty easy to figure out, here it is

LinearLayoutManager:

app:layoutManager="androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager"

Example:

GridLayoutManager:

app:layoutManager="androidx.recyclerview.widget.GridLayoutManager"

Example:

As you can see in examples above you can control the orientation from within xml using

android:orientation="vertical"

and

android:orientation="horizontal"

And to set the number of columns for GridLayoutManager using

app:spanCount="2"