Recyclerview single item choice. No multi touch

Question

This is driving me crazy. Something that is implemented by default in ListView is missing from RecyclerView.

I want to have the exact behavior of a listview which is set to single choice mode. I tried the solution from this question but it doesn't fully solve the problem. When I touch the list with 2-3 fingers etc it may only highlight one row indeed, but if I lift my fingers rapidly everything gets triggered even tho only one row is highlighted each time. (I can also hear the sound effect from my phone that gets repeated 3 times very fast)

Basically I want to disable multi touch events from the phone so that the list is forced to select only 1 item each time no matter how many fingers the user uses

Answer 1

To disable multi touch in recyclerview, you can use android:splitMotionEvents="false" in your recyclerview tag in layout file. By that attribute, you will not receive multi touch in recyclerview.