notifyItemRangeChanged() causing crash RecyclerView Android

Question

layout design:

HorizontalScrollView-parent, holding RV[
    RecyclerView=>(GridLayoutManager) (orientation verticle)]

Which will basically do a two way scroll. This UI is built for TV. The focused row in this grid will show extra detail and other rows wont. So whenever there is a focus change from one row to another in onFocusChange i modify the dataset of the Adapter and call notifyItemRangeChanged().

This works fine when the rows length exceeds that of the vertical length of the screen, i.e. vertically scrollable. The crash happens say like if there is less number of rows (like 4).

Error:

    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: parameter must be a descendant of this view
at android.view.ViewGroup.offsetRectBetweenParentAndChild(ViewGroup.java:5937)
at android.view.ViewGroup.offsetDescendantRectToMyCoords(ViewGroup.java:5866)
at android.widget.HorizontalScrollView.isWithinDeltaOfScreen(HorizontalScrollView.java:1168)
at android.widget.HorizontalScrollView.onSizeChanged(HorizontalScrollView.java:1569)
at android.view.View.sizeChange(View.java:19719)
at android.view.View.setFrame(View.java:19680)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19583)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutHorizontal(LinearLayout.java:1780)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1546)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1635)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1544)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1635)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1544)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onLayout(RelativeLayout.java:1080)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1635)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1544)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1635)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1544)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261)
at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.onLayout(DecorView.java:758)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19586)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:2484)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2200)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1386)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6733)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:911)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:723)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:658)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:897)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)

I tried calling notifydatasetchange, but that will return getAdapterPosition = -1 which will not result in focus change from 1 row to another

Since the Adapter code length exceeds character length set by stackoverflow i am providing drive link for the same. Adapter and viewholder layout code

No crash when scrolled vertically

Crash on vertical scroll

Answer 1

I had the same issue when the items in the recyclerview are focusable. Try the following things:

Option 1 user windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" in scrollview

Option 2 Append your custom ScrollListener to your Activity, the purpose is when RV start scrolling, clear current focus.

protected class FocusableScrollListner implements OnScrollListener {

        @Override
        public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem,
                int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
            // do nothing 
        }

        @Override
        public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
            if (SCROLL_STATE_TOUCH_SCROLL == scrollState) {
                View currentFocus = getCurrentFocus();
                if (currentFocus != null) {
                    currentFocus.clearFocus();
                }
            }
        }

    }

Option 3:

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    View currentFocus = ((Activity)context).getCurrentFocus();
    if (currentFocus != null) {
        currentFocus.clearFocus();
    }
}

there may be some other alternatives depending upon your code, you have to clear the focus.