Skip items in recycler view

Question

Hi I want to skip some items from recyclerview.

Here is the bi

Answer 1

There's a very simple fix for this:

If you perform view.setVisibility(View.GONE); on the view while binding it to the ViewHolder, the view would be hidden but there would still be a space right where the view was supposed to be; therefore, this approach isn't efficient.

How then do we solve this problem?

All you need to do is to set the height and/or width of the view you're trying to hide to zero. Here's a simple way to achieve this:

View Holder:

    public class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{

        public LinearLayout.LayoutParams params;
        public LinearLayout rootView //the outermost view from your layout. Note that it doesn't necessarily have to be a LinearLayout.

        //todo: Don't forget to add your other views

        public MyViewHolder(View itemView){
            super(itemView);

            params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0, 0);
            rootView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.rootView);

            //todo: Don't forget to initialize your views


        }

    }

onBindViewHolder:

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull MyViewHolder holder, int position){

    if(your_condition){
        holder.rootView.setLayoutParams(holder.params);  
        //this line hides the view completely
    }
    else{
        //todo: Do your regular stuff
    }

}

I hope this helps. Merry coding!