Multiple recyclerviews (gridlayout and horizontal linearlayout) inside one view

Question

I am trying to achive this:

First I tried by putting all my recyclerviews (with WRAP_CONTENT) inside a nestedscrollview. That worked, but the performance was awful. Then I tried to set a height for my recyclerviews, that was a lot better (especially the first gridlayout and the horizontal linearlayout loaded very fast), but still had the problem with the dynamic "category" part.

Now I am trying to put all my recyclerviews inside a single recyclerview with different viewtypes. Since that is a pretty big deal (I need to refactor a lot of code because I have diveded every area from the screenshot inside a single fragment and now I need to put all that code inside an adapter) I wanted to ask if I can actually expect any gain from this, because in the end its again a "nestedscrollview" (made by myself, but...). Or if there is some other "best practice" way to achive this layout.

Thank you

Edit: As expected this didnt do the trick neither. When just the two first recyclerviews are added as viewtype it scrolls and loads smoothly. But as as soon as I try to add the category items (below the category), I notice a lag and especially when selecting multiple categories and scrolling fast up, there is noticable lag. I guess I will have to change my layout and move the category selection part inside a separate view, just need to come up with a user friendly solution. But its acutally quite dissapointing that, in my opinion such trivial task, laying out multiple tables, is such a pain in the ass on android.

Answer 1

I didn't manage to get it working with standard android stuff.

Now I am using epoxy from airbnb ,and I have converted all my views from nestedscrollview to the epoxy recyclerview. Its a great library, and airbnb use it too for all their views.

Nevertheless it's sad that the android dev team doesn't address this problem and provide a solution besides the info "don't nest multiple scrollviews(recyclerviews) that scroll into the same direction".