How to sort RecyclerView item in android

Question

I\'m working on a android chatting application. When I called my api it returns me the chat list sorted by a user_id. But what I need to do is serialized by

Answer 1

Before passing the data to RecyclerView adapter

data.sort(new Comparator() {
            @Override
            public int compare(Datum o1, Datum o2) {
                return o1.get(position).getMessageId().compareTo(o2.get(position).getMessageId());
            }
        });

then pass (notify) the sorted list to the adapter.