Android RecyclerView ItemTouchHelper revert swipe and restore view holder

Question

Is there a way to revert a swipe action and restore the view holder to its initial position after the swipe is completed and onSwiped is called on the ItemTouchHelper.Callback instance? I got the RecyclerView, ItemTouchHelper and ItemTouchHelper.Callback instances to work together perfectly, I just need to revert the swipe action and not remove the swiped item in some cases.

Answer 1

After some random poking I found a solution. Call notifyItemChanged on you adapter. This will make the swiped out view animate back into it's original position.

Answer 2

You should override onSwiped method in ItemTouchHelper.Callback and refresh that particular item.

 @Override
 public void onSwiped(RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder,
     int direction) {
     adapter.notifyItemChanged(viewHolder.getAdapterPosition());
 }

Answer 3

Google's ItemTouchHelper implementation assumes that every swiped out item will eventually get removed from the recycler view, whereas it might not be the case in some applications.

RecoverAnimation is a nested class in ItemTouchHelper that manages the touch animation of the swiped/dragged items. Although the name implies that it only recovers the position of items, it's actually the only class that is used to recover (cancel swipe/drag) and replace (move out on swipe or replace on drag) items. Strange naming.

There's a boolean property named mIsPendingCleanup in RecoverAnimation, which ItemTouchHelper uses to figure out whether the item is pending removal. So ItemTouchHelper, after attaching a RecoverAnimation to the item, sets this property after a successful swipe out, and the animation does not get removed from the list of recover animations as long as this property is set. The problem is that, mIsPendingCleanup will always be set for a swiped out item, causing the RecoverAnimation for the item to never be removed from the list of animations. So even if you recover the item's position after a successul swipe, it will be sent back to the swiped-out position as soon as you touch it - because the RecoverAnimation will cause the animation start from the latest swiped-out position.

Solution to this is unfortunately to copy the ItemTouchHelper class source code into the same package as it is in the support library, and remove the mIsPendingCleanup property from the RecoverAnimation class. I'm not sure if this is acceptable by Google, and I haven't posted the update to Play Store yet to see whether it will cause a reject, but you may find the class source code from support library v22.2.1 with the above mentioned fix at https://gist.github.com/kukabi/f46e1c0503d2806acbe2.