How to call a MainActivity method from ViewHolder in RecyclerView.Adapter?

Question

In a simple app project at GitHub I have only 2 custom Java-files:

1. MainActivity.java contains Bluetooth- and UI-related source code
2. DeviceListAdapter.

Answer 1

For those who are looking for invoking a callback from a static ViewHolder do the following. Let you have an adapter:

public class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter {
    private final int resource;
    private final List items;
    private final LayoutInflater inflater;
    ...
    private Callback callback;

    private static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        ...
    }

    public interface Callback {
        void onImageClick(int position);
        void onRemoveItem(int position);
    }
}

Then you should add a setCallback method and call it from activity/fragment. Also you shouldn't make a callback static (it may lead to problems when you use the same adapter in many classes). You should create a field inside the ViewHolder. So:

    public MyAdapter(Context context, int resource, List items, Callback callback) {
        super();
        this.resource = resource;
        this.items = items;
        this.inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        this.callback = callback;
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        final ViewHolder viewHolder = (ViewHolder) holder;
        final Item item = this.items.get(position);
        viewHolder.caption.setText(item.caption);
        viewHolder.callback = callback;
    }

    // A method to set a callback from activity/fragment.
    public void setCallback(Callback callback) {
        this.callback = callback;
    }

    public static class Item {
        public long id;
        public String number;
        public String caption;

        ...
    }

    private static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        protected final TextView caption;
        // A reference to an adapter's callback.
        protected Callback callback;

        public ViewHolder(View view) {
            super(view);
            this.caption = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.caption);
        }

        private View.OnClickListener onClickListener = new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                int id = v.getId();
                if (id == R.id.image) {
                    // Invoke the callback here.
                    if (callback != null) {
                        callback.onImageClick(getLayoutPosition());
                    }
                }
            }
        };
    }
}

After you have made the adapter you can invoke it so:

adapter = new MyAdapter(getActivity(), R.layout.item,
        new ArrayList(), null);

adapterListener = new MyAdapter.Callback() {
    @Override
    public void onImageClick(int position) {
        // Some actions.
    }

    @Override
    public void onRemoveItem(int position) {
        // Some actions.
    }
};

adapter.setCallback(adapterListener);