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

The RecyclerView is a bit different from the ListView. Actually, the RecyclerView needs a ListView like structure in it. For example, a LinearLayout. The LinearLayout has parameters for the dividing each element. In the code below I have a RecyclerView comprised of CardView objects within a LinearLayout with a "padding" that will put some space between items. Make that space really small and you get a line.

Here's the Recycler view in recyclerview_layout.xml

And here is what each item looks like (and it shows as divided due to the android:padding in the LinearLayout that surrounds everything.) in another file: cards_layout.xml