Detect animation finish in Android's RecyclerView

Question

The RecyclerView, unlike to ListView, doesn\'t have a simple way to set an empty view to it, so one has to manage it manually, making empty view vi

Answer 1

Currently the only working way I've found to solve this problem is to extend ItemAnimator and pass it to RecyclerView like this:

recyclerView.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator() {
    @Override
    public void onAnimationFinished(RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder) {
        updateEmptyView();
    }
});

But this technique is not universal, because I have to extend from concrete ItemAnimator implementation being used by RecyclerView. In case of private inner CoolItemAnimator inside CoolRecyclerView, my method will not work at all.

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PS: My colleague suggested to wrap ItemAnimator inside the decorator in a following manner:

recyclerView.setItemAnimator(new ListenableItemAnimator(recyclerView.getItemAnimator()));

It would be nice, despite seems like overkill for a such trivial task, but creating the decorator in this case is not possible anyway, because ItemAnimator has a method setListener() which is package protected so I obviously can't wrap it, as well as several final methods.