How to disable animation for ListAdapter

Question

I am using new ListAdapter, which automatically animates changes. I would like to disable animations or enable/disable it programmatically.

class UserAdapter extends ListAdapter<User, UserViewHolder> {      public UserAdapter() {          super(User.DIFF_CALLBACK);      }      @Override      public void onBindViewHolder(UserViewHolder holder, int position) {          holder.bindTo(getItem(position));      }      public static final DiffUtil.ItemCallback<User> DIFF_CALLBACK =              new DiffUtil.ItemCallback<User>() {          @Override          public boolean areItemsTheSame(                  @NonNull User oldUser, @NonNull User newUser) {              // User properties may have changed if reloaded from the DB, but ID is fixed              return oldUser.getId() == newUser.getId();          }          @Override          public boolean areContentsTheSame(                  @NonNull User oldUser, @NonNull User newUser) {              // NOTE: if you use equals, your object must properly override Object#equals()              // Incorrectly returning false here will result in too many animations.              return oldUser.equals(newUser);          }      }  } 

Answer 1

Another solution is to simply remove the item animator altogether.

recyclerView.itemAnimator = null 

Answer 2

You could try to disable or enable animations with setSupportsChangeAnimations on RecyclerView item animator:

SimpleItemAnimator itemAnimator = (SimpleItemAnimator) recyclerView.getItemAnimator(); itemAnimator.setSupportsChangeAnimations(false);