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Recyclerview: update view elements outside the screen

I have a recycler view that looks like this:
At the start, these circle icons are empty. I need to update every icon of my recycler to be from empty to full within an interval of 5 seconds (see the image above).
I actually can update these icons, but my problem is:
If I have 20 items, I'll need to scroll the recycler in order to see every item. Whenever I scroll the recycler, the last 4-5 items don't get updated from empty to full.
I just need to update the UI, I don't need to remove or add anything to the recyclerview. I've already tried to use notifyDataSetChanged(), notifyItemChanged(), but nothing worked so far.
What's your suggestion? Thank you in advance

Here's one strategy. Have one function in your adapter to start/reset the animation. You can call it when you set the data list. In onBindViewHolder you calculate when relative to now the icon should change to filled (could be in the past). The ViewHolder class either immediately shows the filled icon if the time is negative, or else it posts a delayed runnable to change it in the future. You'll need to cancel any previous delayed runnable so when views get recycled, they always get updated to the correct state.
//Inside your ViewHolder class:
private val setIconRunnable = Runnable { setFilledIcon() }
fun fillIconAt(timeFromNowMillis: Long) {
itemView.removeCallbacks(setIconRunnable)
if (timeFromNowMillis <= 0L) {
setFilledIcon()
} else {
setEmptyIcon()
itemView.postDelayed(setIconRunnable, timeFromNowMillis)
}
}
// In your adapter class:
companion object {
private const val ANIMATION_DURATION = 5000L
}
private var animationStartTime = 0L
fun initiateIconAnimation() {
animationStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis()
notifyDataSetChanged()
}
override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: YourViewHolderType, position: Int) {
//...
val iconChangeTime = (
ANIMATION_DURATION * (position + 1).toFloat() / yourDataList.size
).roundToLong() + animationStartTime
holder.fillIconAt(iconChangeTime - System.currentTimeMillis())
}

Autoplay Images in Accompanist Pager

I'm implementing an horizontal pager with Accompanist. Is there an elegant way to automatically switch the images every 5 seconds?
Otherwise, I'd have to fake a manual swipe by using a channel in the viewmodel that increments the currentPage every 5 seconds.. which, to be honest, I'm not quite a fan of.
Before Compose, I used to implement the Why Not Image Carousel, which has a built-in autoplay property.
Any help would be appreciated. Thx!

You can do the following:
val images = // list of your images...
val pageState = rememberPagerState(pageCount = images.size)
HorizontalPager(state = pageState) {
// Your content...
}
// This is the interesting part, when your page changes,
// the LaunchedEffect will run again
LaunchedEffect(pageState.currentPage) {
delay(3000) // wait for 3 seconds.
// increasing the position and check the limit
var newPosition = pageState.currentPage + 1
if (newPosition > images.lastIndex) newPosition = 0
// scrolling to the new position.
pageState.animateScrollToPage(newPosition)
}
Here is the result (in the GIF, the interval is 1 sec):

RecyclerView - Continuous Columns Layout

I am trying to create a layout where items would follow one another in columns (see image below) but I am not getting there yet. I have tried GridLayoutManager and StaggeredGridLayoutManager - the problem with both neither provides the feature of item flowing into another column and following each other this way. With my current attempt I am trying FlexboxLayoutManager but the result I am getting is always columns with single items instead of the items flowing one after another.
The desired behavior is that the items are located one after another and when the high of the recycler doesn't allow for the full item view it should be broken down to the next column.
Here is what I am trying right now:
mBinding?.activeRecycler?.layoutManager = FlexboxLayoutManager(context).apply {
flexDirection = FlexDirection.COLUMN
flexWrap = FlexWrap.WRAP
alignItems = AlignItems.STRETCH
}
And this is getting me one item per column.
Trying to achieve this:

I highly doubt this is possible.
The RecyclerView, its adapters and its layout managers all are not designed to alter the fundamental form of a view.
Meaning that "splitting" one would not be possible.
The RecyclerView is designed to understand how many views are in sight at the same time, create that many views only and then bind the underlying objects to the views respectively.
Meaning the RecyclerView doesn't "Cut a View in half and displays its halves in different places".
The only way in which a constellation like yours would be possible, was if the layout manager is specifically designed to display one item in multiple views and thereby multiple positions. Which would then allow it to be displayed as you described. However, as I said, that would mean the view 3 in the middle and the view 3 in the last column would be two views being bound to the same object or a copy of it. (Or someone went completely crazy and actually split the view, which I doubt).
I don't believe that any of the standard layout managers are capable of it and I doubt that you can even achieve this without also altering the adapter accordingly, at the very least. Because the adapter basically does the binding so without its help the standard layout managers wouldn't be able to do the double binding as described above.
That being said, this is just a very good guess, going by the principles of the view and its components. I have not read the source code or full description of every layout manager.

The way I understand your problem is like this: You have your current list of data that contains the text fields and you want to show them on the normal way, one list item one view item in recycler view.
But based on your design requirements this is not possible.
My idea to achieve that is like this:
You have to create a new list which will separate one item of the previous list into 2,3 or more items to fit in your columns.
private fun demo() {
val originalList = listOf<String>()
val newScreenSpecificList = mutableListOf<String>()
val columnHeight = 3//example number of lines
val columnWidth = 10//example number of chars
var columnsIndex = 0//index of column
var currentColumnHeight = 0 // current column filled height
originalList.forEach {
if (currentColumnHeight + getTextHeight(it, columnWidth) <= columnHeight) {
newScreenSpecificList.add(it)
currentColumnHeight = currentColumnHeight + getTextHeight(it, columnWidth)
} else {
//here is the part where your text is bigger then your column height so you need to divide it
val textForSpaceLeft = getTextForSpaceLeft(it, columnHeight - currentColumnHeight)
newScreenSpecificList.add(textForSpaceLeft)
currentColumnHeight = currentColumnHeight + getTextHeight(textForSpaceLeft, columnWidth)
if (currentColumnHeight >= columnHeight) {
columnsIndex++
}
if (getTextForNewSpaceLeft(it, columnHeight - currentColumnHeight)){
//continue to repeat logic for new column
//...
}
}
if (currentColumnHeight >= columnHeight) {
columnsIndex++
}
}
}
private fun getTextForSpaceLeft(it: String, spaceLeft: Int): String {
return "it"// return text for the available space
}
private fun getTextForNewSpaceLeft(it: String, spaceLeft: Int): String {
return "new column also"// return text left for the new available space
}
private fun getTextHeight(text: String, columnWidth: Int): Int {
return 2//todo your logic to convert text length to number of lines needed for a specific width of the column
}
Now you need to continue this logic it is not complete, I hope it helps you.

I guess your problem is with the LayoutParams of items which are being created in your adapter. probably the height is set to match_parent in items. You can try to change the LayoutParams of itemViews in your adapter's onCreateViewHolder/onBindViewHolder. Or if the items' heights are kinda tricky to calculate, you can create a customView and try calculate the height in onMeasure and set the height to wrap_content
try to set items' height to wrap_content or if you want to do it in code, something like this:
override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): FlexItemViewHolder {
val infatedView = ...
infatedView.layoutParams = FlexboxLayoutManager.LayoutParams(FlexboxLayoutManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, FlexboxLayoutManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
infatedView.addView(textView)
return FlexItemViewHolder(f)
}

how to keep RecyclerView always scroll bottom

I Use Recyclerview Replace with list view
I want to keep Recyclerview always scroll bottom.
ListView can use this method setTranscriptMode(AbsListView.TRANSCRIPT_MODE_ALWAYS_SCROLL)
RecyclerView I use method smoothScrollToPosition(myAdapter.getItemCount() - 1)
but when Soft keyboard Pop ,its replace RecyclerView content.

If you want to keep the scroll position anchored to the bottom of the RecyclerView, it's useful in chat apps. just call setStackFromEnd(true) to on the LinearLayoutManager to make the keyboard keep the list items anchored on the bottom (the keyboard) and not the top.

This is because RV thinks its reference point is TOP and when keyboard comes up, RV's size is updated by the parent and RV keeps its reference point stable. (thus keeps the top position at the same location)
You can set LayoutManager#ReverseLayout to true in which case RV will layout items from the end of the adapter.
e.g. adapter position 0 is at the bottom, 1 is above it etc...
This will of course require you to reverse the order of your adapter.
I'm not sure but setting stack from end may also give you the same result w/o reordering your adapter.

recyclerView.scrollToPosition(getAdapter().getItemCount()-1);

I have faced the same problem and I solved it using the approach mentioned here. It is used to detect whether soft keyboard is open or not and if it is open, just call the smoothScrollToPosition() method.
A much simpler solution is to give your activity's root view a known ID, say '#+id/activityRoot', hook a GlobalLayoutListener into the ViewTreeObserver, and from there calculate the size diff between your activity's view root and the window size:
final View activityRootView = findViewById(R.id.activityRoot);
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - activityRootView.getHeight();
if (heightDiff > 100) {
recyclerView.smoothScrollToPosition(myAdapter.getItemCount() - 1);
}
}
});
Easy!

I have also faced same problem. But following code help me. I hope this is useful.
In this staus is arraylist.
recyclerView.scrollToPosition(staus.size()-1);
next one is:-
In This you can use adapter class
recyclerView.scrollToPosition(showAdapter.getItemCount()-1);

I ran into this problem myself and I ended up creating my own LayoutManager to solve it. It's a pretty straightforward solution that can be broken down into three steps:
Set stackFromEnd to true.
Determine whether forceTranscriptScroll should be set to true whenever onItemsChanged is called. Per the documentation, onItemsChanged gets called whenever the contents of the adapter changes. If transcriptMode is set to Disabled, forceTranscriptScroll will always be false, if it's set to AlwaysScroll, it will always be true, and if it's set to Normal, it will only be true if the last item in the adapter is completely visible.
In onLayoutCompleted, scroll to the last item in the list if forceTranscriptScroll is set to true and the last item in the list isn't already completely visible.
Below is the code that accomplishes these three steps:
import android.content.Context
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
class TranscriptEnabledLinearLayoutManager(context: Context, transcriptMode: TranscriptMode = TranscriptMode.Normal) :
LinearLayoutManager(context) {
enum class TranscriptMode {
Disabled, Normal, AlwaysScroll
}
private var transcriptMode: TranscriptMode = TranscriptMode.Disabled
set(value) {
field = value
// Step 1
stackFromEnd = field != TranscriptMode.Disabled
}
private var forceTranscriptScroll = false
init {
this.transcriptMode = transcriptMode
}
// Step 2
override fun onItemsChanged(recyclerView: RecyclerView) {
super.onItemsChanged(recyclerView)
forceTranscriptScroll = when (transcriptMode) {
TranscriptMode.Disabled -> false
TranscriptMode.Normal -> {
findLastCompletelyVisibleItemPosition() == itemCount - 1
}
TranscriptMode.AlwaysScroll -> true
}
}
// Step 3
override fun onLayoutCompleted(state: RecyclerView.State?) {
super.onLayoutCompleted(state)
val recyclerViewState = state ?: return
if (!recyclerViewState.isPreLayout && forceTranscriptScroll) {
// gets the position of the last item in the list. returns if list is empty
val lastAdapterItemPosition = recyclerViewState.itemCount.takeIf { it > 0 }
?.minus(1) ?: return
val lastCompletelyVisibleItem = findLastCompletelyVisibleItemPosition()
if (lastCompletelyVisibleItem != lastAdapterItemPosition ||
recyclerViewState.targetScrollPosition != lastAdapterItemPosition) {
scrollToPositionWithOffset(lastAdapterItemPosition, 0)
}
forceTranscriptScroll = false
}
}
}

Want to set different parameters per ListView item in Android

I am trying to set parameters (margins in this case) per item in listview.
But when i do, it just sets the margin of last iteration.
How can i set properties per item (row) in the listview?
Ultimately i want to set diffrent "gaps" beween the items (so i can use it for my custom calendarview)
Eventually setDividerHeight() per item is good too, but i have the same problem on that function; namely one value for height and not a variabhle that can be changed per row.
//for loop
for (int i = 0; i < planning.size(); i++)
{
planning = getPlanning(medewerkerId, beginDate, eindDate);
int space = i * 15;
final ListView lijstje = (ListView) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.sundayList);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) lijstje.getLayoutParams();
params.setMargins(0,space,0,0); // this wont work, and sets the height only on last iteration
lijstje.setAdapter(new PlanbordAdapter(getActivity(), R.layout.planning_item, planning));
lijstje.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener()
{
//onclick stuff here
}
}

Well to awnser my own question: Turns out i needed to use ".invalidate()" on the view in which i projected the list on, in order to redraw the items with correct margings set. hope this helps someone in the future with the same problem.