Recycler view inside NestedScrollView causes scroll to start in the middle

Question

I am getting a weird scrolling behavior when I add a RecyclerView inside a NestedScrollView.

What happens is that whenever the scrollview has more rows than can be s

Answer 1

In Java code, after initializing your recyclerView and setting the adapter, add this line:

recyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false)

You can also try to wrap the layout withing a relativeLayout so that the views stay at the same position but recyclerView (which scroll) is first in xml hierarchy. The last suggestion a desperate attempt:p