RecyclerView wrap_content

Question

I am trying to center a RecyclerView when its layout_width is wrap_content without success

Answer 1

It is related on how the LayoutManager calculates the sizes. Here you have the related bug with some workarounds people have used.

NOTE: With the release 23.2 of the support library now the wrap content is supported, so looks like they fixed it. You can checkout the changelog here

Answer 2

Did you try using a RelativeLayout instead of Linear Layout and then make the Recyclerview layout_centerHorizontal="true"

Answer 3

According to your question, update on (march 2016)

I suggest you to update to Android Support Library 23.2.1 to support WRAP_CONTENT in RecycleView.

In RecyclerView layout_width to wrap_content was not supported before 23.2.1.

solved some issue like Fixed bugs related to various measure-spec methods

Check http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html#v7-recyclerview