How to show different layouts in recyclerView?

Question

I want to show Notifications list with 4 different types of layout. There will be 4 types of notifications chat_noti,share_noti,coorganizer_noti,invitation_noti. These 4 types has 4 different layouts. I want to show this in recyclerview.

This is my adapter :

EDIT:

List<Notifications> notificationsList;
Context context;
private static final int INVITATION_NOTI = 0;
private static final int CHAT_NOTI = 1;
private static final int SHARE_NOTI = 2;
private static final int COORGANIZER_NOTI = 3;
private int selectedPos = 0;
public NotificationsAdapter(Context context,List<Notifications> notificationsList){
    this.notificationsList = notificationsList;
    this.context = context;
}

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int type) {

    if (type == 0)
    {
        return INVITATION_NOTI;
    }
    else if(type == 1)
    {
        return CHAT_NOTI;
    }
    else if(type == 2)
    {
        return SHARE_NOTI;
    }
    else if (type == 3)
    {
        return COORGANIZER_NOTI;
    }

    return -1;

}

@Override
public MainViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    switch (viewType){
        case INVITATION_NOTI:
            return new InvitationViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.invitation_notification, parent, false));
        case CHAT_NOTI:
            return new ChatNotificationViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.chat_notification, parent, false));
        case SHARE_NOTI:
            return new ShareViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.share_notification, parent, false));
        case COORGANIZER_NOTI:
            return new CoOrganizerViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.co_organizer_notification, parent, false));
    }
    return null;
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(MainViewHolder holder, int position) {
    if(holder.getItemViewType() == INVITATION_NOTI){
        InvitationViewHolder  mholder = (InvitationViewHolder) holder;
    }
    else if(holder.getItemViewType() == CHAT_NOTI){
        ChatNotificationViewHolder  mholder = (ChatNotificationViewHolder) holder;
    }
    else if(holder.getItemViewType() == SHARE_NOTI){
        ShareViewHolder  mholder = (ShareViewHolder) holder;
    }
    else if(holder.getItemViewType() == COORGANIZER_NOTI){
        CoOrganizerViewHolder mholder = (CoOrganizerViewHolder) holder;
    }
}



@Override
public int getItemCount() {
    return notificationsList.size();
}

public class InvitationViewHolder extends MainViewHolder{
    TextView text,event,question;
    Button yes,no;

    public InvitationViewHolder(View v){
        super(v);
        this.text = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.text);
        this.event = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.eventType);
        this.question = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.question);
        this.yes = (Button) v.findViewById(R.id.yes);
        this.no = (Button) v.findViewById(R.id.no);
    }
}

public class ChatNotificationViewHolder extends MainViewHolder{
    TextView text,sender;

    public ChatNotificationViewHolder(View v){
        super(v);
        this.text = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.text);
        this.sender = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.sender);
    }
}
public class ShareViewHolder extends MainViewHolder{
    TextView text;

    public ShareViewHolder(View v){
        super(v);
        this.text = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.text);
    }
}
public class CoOrganizerViewHolder extends MainViewHolder{
    TextView text;
    Button view;

    public CoOrganizerViewHolder(View v){
        super(v);
        this.text = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.text);
        this.view = (Button)  v.findViewById(R.id.view);
    }
}

public class MainViewHolder extends  RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    public MainViewHolder(View v) {
        super(v);
    }
}

LogCat :

FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.example.siddhi.meavita, PID: 22717 java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to write to field 'int android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$ViewHolder.mItemViewType' on a null object reference at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.createViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:5483) at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:4707) at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:4617) at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager$LayoutState.next(LinearLayoutManager.java:1994) at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.layoutChunk(LinearLayoutManager.java:1390) at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.fill(LinearLayoutManager.java:1353)

I tried using this code it's throwing null pointer exception for view type.

Based on notification type the layout should get displayed. How can I do this? Thank you..

I am adding items like this:

  private void prepareData() {

    Notifications notifications = new Notifications("You have an Invitation.","Michell's Marraige","Attending?","",0);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);

    notifications = new Notifications("You have an Invitation.","Kate's Reception","Attending?","",0);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);

    notifications = new Notifications("Vishal Say's","","Have you attended wedding?","",1);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);


    notifications = new Notifications("Siddhi Say's","","Have you gone for shopping?","",1);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);

    notifications = new Notifications("Ashmit shared a photo with you","","","",2);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);

    notifications = new Notifications("Neeta shared a photo with you","","","",2);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);

    notifications = new Notifications("You are a co-organizer for My Birthaday","","","",3);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);

    notifications = new Notifications("You are a co-organizer for My Wedding","","","",3);
    notificationsList.add(notifications);

    mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();


}

Last attribute is notification type.

Answer 1

This error is caused when getItemViewType() returns a value for which the onCreateViewHolder has not assigned a viewholder. What I feel is happening is that the getItemViewType() is returning -1 for some value. Now the onCreateViewHolder() does not know what to do when the viewType == -1. Hence, you are getting the error.

Answer 2

In my case, I received this error when I forgot to return the view holder in a part of my onCreateViewHolder method, and it was falling through to a "return null" statement at the end of the method.