Vertical RecyclerView containing nested RecyclerView - android

Structure of my Android app is forcing me to create Vertical Nested RecyclerView inside Vertical Nested RecyclerView because of the pre-drawing all nested items inside every RootRecyclerView. The View of RootRecyclerView has approximately 5 - 10 views and the View of InsideRecyclerView consists also from 5-10 views. There is not necessarity for scrolling this ChildRecyclerView, because all scrolling is handled by RootRecyclerView (same term as Nested RecyclerView)
I have two options:
1. ChildRecyclerView, that will predraw all child items when the root item will reached the screen (it lags, but the result looks good under the 30 child rows)
2. Join the Root+Child View, remove Child RecyclerView and the all logic will be handled in the Root RecyclerView. - i tried this, also used ConstraintLayout, so the whole layout was only 1-LEVEL, but it was still laggy, even if I set Visibility of half of the views in this layout. I also setup setHasFixedSize(true), tried to use Cache methods of RecyclerView, initialCacheItemSize and so on.
So do you have any ideas, how to solve this problem? Did somebody of you met with this kind of problem? You could also imagine the case of ChildRecyclerView inside another ChildRecyclerView that is inside RootRecyclerView.

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How can I implement this kind of UI, where we have two recyclerViews. One scrolls horizontally and the second one vertically. when the second one scrolls first one also scrolls top together.
I tried to implement using NestedScrollView, but I had to make second recyclerView height wrap content which causes recyclerView not recycle.
The second way that I tried was having one recyclerView. And adding horizontal recyclerview as a header. The problem was to save header recyclerview scroll state when navigation. And there had been crashes when loading next page (paging 3) in header recyclerView.
The question is: Is there any optimal solution for this kind of ui?
In cases, Like this, you don't have to use 2 RecyclerView and you also have to avoid using RecyclerView insideScrollView. instead of this you have to use one vertical RecyclerView with multitype view Adapter.
in this way, you are going to have 2 different ViewHolder one of them is a horizontal recyclerView (your top item) and the other one is your other items.
for learning multitype adapter you can see this:
How to create RecyclerView with multiple view types
and for a horizontal recyclerView inside a vertical RecyclerView you can see this :
https://medium.com/#ashishkudale/android-list-inside-list-using-recyclerview-73cff2c4ea95
you have to combine these 2.
I could not understand the meaning of "header" where you said "adding horizontal recyclerview as a header" but if you did what I told and the problem is the state of inner Horizontal recyclerView, I think probably you are calling setAdapter method of horizontal RecyclerView in OnBind() method of your vertical recycler view, it is a common mistake that I have seen in many tutorials.
if you have done this mistake , try to call setAdapter of your inner recyclerView in the constructor of its viewHolder and just update the list using yourHorizontalAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged() in onBind() method of VerticalRecylerView,
and if its not the case and your recyclerView is completely destroying see this link :How to save RecyclerView's scroll position using RecyclerView.State?

Android. RecyclerView track viewed items

I have two RecyclerView inside the NestedScrollView and I need track viewed items of my RecyclerViews. But problem that using nestedScrollView the recycler pattern doesn’t work and all the views will be loaded at once because wrap_content needs the height of complete RecyclerView so it will draw all child Views at once.
Is there any way to track of the viewed items with this approach? Please help me.
never use RecyclerView inside NestedScrollView because your ViewHolders will not be recycled and you will be in danger of OutOfMemoeryExceptions, it may work for lists with small sizes but as the list size increases it becomes worse,
instead of using one ScrollView and 2 RecyclerView as child
you have to completely remove ScrollView and instead of that, use one RecyclerView with multitype ViewHolders, in other words you need to combine those 2 RecyclerView in on RecyclerView .
To achieving this you can combine those adapters manually or you can use ConcatAdapter that depends on what you want, this link may also help you if you want to use ConcatAdapter but that is not necessary.
then you can have different approaches to track the visibility of viewHolders like layoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition() and etc.

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I have a vertical recyclerview with multiples types like horizontal recycler inside.
My problem concern an item not visible (so not bind yet) at the start of the fragment (i.e maybe the item number 6 ou 7 of the list).
This item is an horizontal recycler view and when I first scroll to the bottom I have a lag when the item is binding...
I already optimzed my xml to have just 1 parent view
I already set fixed size to true
I already also setNestedScrollingEnabled(false)
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So, I tried to use pretech item count from this article (
https://medium.com/google-developers/recyclerview-prefetch-c2f269075710) but I don't see the difference. (maybe I don't implement it correctly)
I am asking if I can really bind this item (it's an horizontal recycler) when he is not visible...
I want to keep the main recycler and don't inflate manually a linear layout because I have a lot of view types ( I tried but the solution was pretty ugly).
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I want Horizontal scrollable items in vertical recyclerView. horizontal items will not be more than 10 in any case.
I thought of two approaches
1) Horizontal Recyclerview as item in vertical RecyclerView
2) Custom horizontalScrollView as an item in vertical RecyclerView
I have implemented first one facing some issues in scrolling but I think I will manage that.
My question is, why not second approach. I have seen all related question on SO and most of them trying to do with first approach. Why is it so?
What is disadvantage? specially I you have limited number in horizontal view.
Any pointer would be great help.
Why do we use RecyclerView instead of LinearLayout?
Because if we use a LinearLayout consisting of (let's say 50 items) they will be all rendered on screen (50 Views) and this will lead to very very bad performance issues and scalability issues. RecyclerView does initialize the views that appears on screen only ,let's say 7 views, and they will be recycled in every new row that comes.
Why do we use Horizontal Recyclerview instead of Horizontal ScrollView?
This is not usually the case. If you have multiple items in every row that needs to be recycled then you should use Horizontal RecyclerView otherwise it won't matter at all.
To summarize,
The views in the vertical RecyclerView will got recycled whether it has another horizonal RecyclerView or Horizontal ScrollView, but the views inside the Horizontal ScrollView will not get recycled and the views inside the Horizontal RecyclerView will got recycled as it's a RecyclerView.
If you don't have multiple items in your Horizontal RecyclerView, you shall use Horizontal ScrollView instead.

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Like explained very well here: https://halfthought.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/postponing-fragment-transitions/
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