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

There is a method in the ItemAnimator class that is called when all item animations are finished:

    /**
     * Method which returns whether there are any item animations currently running.
     * This method can be used to determine whether to delay other actions until
     * animations end.
     *
     * @return true if there are any item animations currently running, false otherwise.
     */
     public abstract boolean isRunning();

You can override it to detect when all item animations have ended:

recyclerView.itemAnimator = object : DefaultItemAnimator() {
    override fun isRunning(): Boolean {
        val isAnimationRunning = super.isRunning()
        if(!isAnimationRunning) {
            // YOUR CODE
        }
        return isAnimationRunning
    }
}