Getting position of View in onCreateViewHolder

Question

I am using a RecyclerView with a single row layout with an ImageView and a TextView.

I want to implement a OnClickListener for the View and not for seperate ViewHold

Answer 1

you can create a method to update position in your class.

in my case I need to attach watcher and get the position to update arraylist. here is the example:

class DodolWatcher bla bla {
    private var position: Int = 0
    fun updatePosition(pos:Int)
    {
      position = pos
    }

    override fun onTextChanged(charSequence: CharSequence, i: Int, i2: Int, i3: Int) {
    Log.d("test", position.toString())
    }

}

and in your onCreateViewHolder you can attach watcher to edittext

 override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): RVPaymentMethodAdapter.ViewHolder {
     ....
     bla bla
     ....
     theWatcher = DodolWatcher() <-- this is the trick
     amount.addTextChangedListener(theWatcher)
 }

and you will able to update position in your bindViewHolder like this:

override fun onBindViewHolder(viewHolder: RVPaymentMethodAdapter.ViewHolder, position: Int) {
     theWatcher.updatePosition(viewHolder.adapterPosition)  <-- this is the trick
 }

Answer 2

You cannot use the position parameter of onBindViewHolder in a callback. If a new item is added above, RecyclerView will not rebind your item so the position is obsolete. Instead, RecyclerView provides a getAdapterPosition method on the ViewHolder.

@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(final ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    final View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext())
            .inflate(R.layout.single_line_row, parent, false);
    final ViewHolder holder = new ViewHolder(view);
    view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            final int position = holder.getAdapterPosition();
            if (position != RecyclerView.NO_POSITION) {
                remove(mCommentList.get(position));
            }
        }
    });
    return holder;
}

I've added position != RecyclerView.NO_POSITION check because when item is removed, RecyclerView will fade out the View so it may still be clicked by the user but its adapter position will return NO_POSITION.

Answer 3

override getItemViewType method in your Adapter:

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
    //...
    return position;
}

Now viewType is position

 @Override
    public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
       int position=viewType; //position 
        //your code 

        View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.item_recursive, parent, false);
        return new ViewHolder(view);
    }

for example

public class BrandBtnAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<BrandBtnAdapter.MyViewHolder>
{

     //............

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position)
    {
        //...
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public BrandBtnAdapter.MyViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType)
    {
        int position = viewType; //position 

        final View itemView = mInflater.inflate(mResource, parent, false);
        return new BrandBtnAdapter.MyViewHolder(itemView);
    }

}