How to add dividers and spaces between items in RecyclerView?

Question

This is an example of how it could have been done previously in the ListView class, using the divider and dividerHeight parame

Answer 1

Instead of create a shape xml for change the divider height and color. You can create programmatically like

val divider = DividerItemDecoration(context,
        DividerItemDecoration.VERTICAL)

divider.setDrawable(ShapeDrawable().apply {
    intrinsicHeight = resources.getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.dp_15)
    paint.color = Color.RED // note: currently (support version 28.0.0), we can not use tranparent color here, if we use transparent, we still see a small divider line. So if we want to display transparent space, we can set color = background color or we can create a custom ItemDecoration instead of DividerItemDecoration. 
})

recycler_devices.addItemDecoration(divider)