How to prevent auto scroll in RecyclerView after notifyDataSetChanged?

Question

I have a RecyclerView with several items types. It looks like this:

• 07/21/2017
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Answer 1

There are 4 ways you can try. Because I don't know what is the height of your view, so I can't sure if it really works. But let give it a try

I. You don't which specific item could be changed. But you know the range of that change

mAdapter.notifyItemInserted(position);                 
mAdapter.notifyItemRangeChanged(0, list.size());

II. Clear list before call notifyDataSetChanged()

yourList.clear();
mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

III. Save/Reset state of ReyclerView before/after adding new item

    // Save state
    private Parcelable recyclerViewState;
    recyclerViewState = recyclerView.getLayoutManager().onSaveInstanceState();

    // Restore state
    recyclerView.getLayoutManager().onRestoreInstanceState(recyclerViewState);

IV. Use this function

mAdapter.notifyItemRangeChanged(0, list.size());