Add Items to top of recyclerview

Question

I have a Recyclerview in my activity. when I pull down it will load new items to recycle view. Now I need to implement pull to refresh the concept to my recyclerview. I have

Answer 1

I also need to add items to the front of recyclerview(and to bottom), but i need to keep scroll focused at the previous top item.

So i'm scrolling recyclerview to previous top item:

mAdapter.pushFront(items);
mAdapter.notifyItemRangeInserted(0, items.size());
recyclerView.scrollToPosition(items.size() - 1);

Is there a better solution?