RecyclerView focus scrolling

Question

I have a RecyclerView with usually two columns and up to eight. We use a lot of D-PAD navigation. We have a problem when scrolling, the focused item will jump from left to r

Answer 1

I reported this bug to AOSP issue tracker: issue 190526

As I can see from source the issue is because GridLayoutManager uses LinearLayoutManager's implementation of onFocusSearchFailed() which is called when focus approaches the inner border of RecyclerView. LinearLayoutManager's implementation just offers first/last (depends on scrolling direction) element. Hence focus jumps to first/last element of new row.

My workaround for this issue.