Android: How to get the current X offset of RecyclerView?

Question

I'm using a Scrollview for an infinite "Time Picker Carousel" and found out, that it is not the best approach (last question)

Now, I found the Recycler View but I am unable to get the current scroll offset in X direction of the recyclerView? (Let's say each item is 100px width, and the second item is only visible to 50%, so the scroll-offset is 150px)

• all items have the same width, but therer is some gap before the first, after the last item
• recyclerView.getScrollX() returns 0 (docs say: initial scroll value)
• the LayoutManager has findFirstVisibleItemPosition, but I cannot calculate the X offset with that

UPDATE

I just found a way to keep tracking the X-Position, while updating the value with the onScrolled callback, but I would prefer getting the actual value instead of tracking it all the time!

private int overallXScroll = 0;
//...
mRecyclerView.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
        @Override
        public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
            super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

            overallXScroll = overallXScroll + dx;

            Log.i("check","overallXScroll->" + overallXScroll);

        }
    });

Answer 1

RecyclerView already have method to get horizontal and vertical scroll offset

mRecyclerView.computeHorizontalScrollOffset()
mRecyclerView.computeVerticalScrollOffset()

This will work for RecyclerViews containing cells of the same height (for vertical scroll offset) and the same width (for horizontal scroll offset)

Answer 2

Solution 1: setOnScrollListener

Save your X-Position as class variable and update each change within the onScrollListener. Ensure you don't reset overallXScroll (f.e. onScreenRotationChange)

 private int overallXScroll = 0;
 //...
 mRecyclerView.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
        super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

        overallXScroll = overallXScroll + dx;
        Log.i("check","overall X  = " + overallXScroll);

    }
 });

Solution 2: Calculate current position.

In my case, I have a horizontal List which is filled with time values (0:00, 0:30, 1:00, 1:30 ... 23:00, 23:30). I'm calculating the time from the time-item, which is in the middle of the screen (calculation point). That's why I need the exact X-Scroll Position of my RecycleView

• Each time item has the same width of 60dp (fyi: 60dp = 30min, 2dp = 1min)

• First item (Header item) has an extra padding, to set 0min to the center

  private int mScreenWidth = 0;
  private int mHeaderItemWidth = 0;
  private int mCellWidth = 0;
  
  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  
    //init recycle views
    //...
    LinearLayoutManager mLLM = (LinearLayoutManager) getLayoutManager();
    DisplayMetrics displaymetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
    this.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displaymetrics);
    this.mScreenWidth = displaymetrics.widthPixels;
  
    //calculate value on current device
    mCellWidth = (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 60, getResources()
          .getDisplayMetrics());
  
    //get offset of list to the right (gap to the left of the screen from the left side of first item)
    final int mOffset = (this.mScreenWidth / 2) - (mCellWidth / 2);
  
    //HeaderItem width (blue rectangle in graphic)
    mHeaderItemWidth = mOffset + mCellWidth;
  
    mRecyclerView.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
  
      @Override
      public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
          super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);
  
          //get first visible item
          View firstVisibleItem = mLLM.findViewByPosition(mLLM.findFirstVisibleItemPosition());
  
          int leftScrollXCalculated = 0;
          if (firstItemPosition == 0){
                 //if first item, get width of headerview (getLeft() < 0, that's why I Use Math.abs())
              leftScrollXCalculated = Math.abs(firstVisibleItem.getLeft());
          }
          else{
  
                 //X-Position = Gap to the right + Number of cells * width - cell offset of current first visible item
                 //(mHeaderItemWidth includes already width of one cell, that's why I have to subtract it again)
              leftScrollXCalculated = (mHeaderItemWidth - mCellWidth) + firstItemPosition  * mCellWidth + firstVisibleItem.getLeft();
          }
  
          Log.i("asdf","calculated X to left = " + leftScrollXCalculated);
  
      }
  });
  

  }

Answer 3

Thanks to @umar-qureshi for the right lead! It appears that you can determine the scroll percentage with Offset, Extent, and Range such that

percentage = 100 * offset / (range - extent)

For example (to be put in an OnScrollListener):

int offset = recyclerView.computeVerticalScrollOffset();
int extent = recyclerView.computeVerticalScrollExtent();
int range = recyclerView.computeVerticalScrollRange();

int percentage = (int)(100.0 * offset / (float)(range - extent));

Log.i("RecyclerView, "scroll percentage: "+ percentage + "%");