RecyclerView that does not scroll and shows all items

Question

I have a RecyclerView (and some other views) in a ScrollView. Currently the RecyclerView is laid out as very small (it shows 2 items out of 5 that it contains) and it scrolls independently of the ScrollView, which is obviously not great UX. I would like to get the RecyclerView to not scroll and to extend so that all its items are visible.

(I know it's stupid to use a RecyclerView in this case. I'm only doing this because somewhere else in the app I need a normal RecyclerView with scrolling etc. but the same kind of content, and I don't want to duplicate code).

Answer 1

It’s pretty simple, simply set the RecyclerView’s height to wrap_content.

You might also benefit from disabling nested scrolling on the recycler view, like so:

RecyclerView recycler = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recycler); recycler.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false); 

Answer 2

The solution of setNestedScrollingEnabled(false) isn't as full as it should: you need to use NestedScrollView instead of ScrollViewfocusableInTouchMode="true" to the child of the NestedScrollView .

If you insist on using ScrollView, you should also set minHeight to the RecyclerView, and also set overScrollMode="never" . In this case, it still isn't a good solution because the minHeight might not be enough in some cases

Other alternative solutions that you should consider:

1. Replace the ScrollView&RecyclerView with a single RecyclerView, which has views with additional view type for what you had in the ScrollView

2. Use GridLayout or another layout instead.