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RecyclerView as child of NestedScrollView - not recycling views

I am trying to create a scroll-able area which will contain various sections of the following types:
Horizontal Recycling Section
Vertical Recycling Section
Text Section
The approach I am taking is to have a NestedRecyclerView as the parent scroll view for all the child sections. This view looks like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/mynav_appbarLayout"
android:background="?attr/themeToolbarBg"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<include
android:id="#+id/mynav_toolbar"
layout="#layout/actionbar_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
<androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView
android:id="#+id/nestedScrollView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
app:layout_behavior="com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout$ScrollingViewBehavior">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"/>
</androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView>
</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
</layout>
Then, for each section type I am creating a corresponding view binding and adding it as a child to the LinearLayout which is inside the NestedScrollView.
There are 2 types of section layout, one which is a simple TextView (which I will omit here as it is not relevant) the other of which is a view which contains a RecyclerView. The layout manager for this RecyclerView is created dynamically depending on whether the section it is to be used for is a horizontal or vertical section.
The layout with the RecyclerView in looks like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/title"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="24dp"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"/>
<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#+id/fooBarsRecycler"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
app:layout_behavior="com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout$ScrollingViewBehavior"/>
</LinearLayout>
</layout>
Now, when I am adding these views to the parent NestedScrollView's LinearLayout and setting up the LayoutManager for the associated RecyclerView to orientation Horizontal it works fine, but, when I use orientation Vertical (which is the same orientation as the NestedScrollView) the RecyclerView is NOT recycling views. Obviously this is leading to unacceptable performance.
After doing about a days worth of research and banging my head against the wall it appears that having a RecyclerView nested within a NestedScrollView with the same orientation as the NestedScrollView causes the RecyclerView to lose it's recycler functionality.
As you can hopefully see from the above layout, I have tried all the suggestions I could find, making sure the RecyclerView's height is not wrap_content, using layout_behaviour, setting the NestedRecyclerView to fill view port and so on.
I have exhausted 6 pages of google search around this issue and have tried every suggestion I have found either on SO or blogs and nothing is working.
Oddly, if I swap out the NestedScrollView for a ScrollView, the vertical RecyclerView regains it's recycler functionality, but now scrolls independently of the parent ScrollView which doesn't meet our requirements.
Is this a solved problem or do I need to rethink my entire solution? I.e. am I just missing an attribute or doing something wrong in the XML or is it fundamentally an issue with using a RecyclerView inside a NestedScrollView with the same orientation?
Here is the list of resources, the suggestions of which I have tried exhaustively to no avail:
How to use RecyclerView inside NestedScrollView?
How to use RecyclerView inside NestedScrollView
Recycler view inside NestedScrollView causes scroll to start in the middle
https://android.jlelse.eu/recyclerview-within-nestedscrollview-scrolling-issue-3180b5ad2542
https://medium.com/#mujtahidah/load-more-recyclerview-inside-nested-scroll-view-and-coordinator-layout-4f179dc01fd
https://github.com/google/flexbox-layout/issues/400
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/8oj8cb/having_recyclerview_inside_a_nestedscrollview_is/
https://github.com/mikepenz/FastAdapter/issues/447
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/bixl6r/nestedscrollview_recyclerview/
View Recycling not happens with Multiple Recyclerview inside NestedScrollView
How to make RecyclerView do recycling inside NestedScrollView?
https://code-examples.net/en/q/1d90611
As per a suggestion in the comments, I could model this with a multi type adapter, which is something I have done before but for this particular problem I am not sure this approach will work.
I think the comment is suggesting I model it like so:
Where the adapter would adapt types:
Horizontal Section
Text Section
Card Section
But, the requirement is this:
So, as you can hopefully see, the RecyclerView will have a LinearLayoutManager with orientation Vertical, but, once we hit the cards, they have to be laid out in a grid fashion, which of course the LinearLayoutManager does not support. So, perhaps I can have the final section be another RecyclerView with a GridLayoutManager? But, I tried this last night and it didn't work, there were scrolling issues as the bottom most RecyclerView is scrolling vertically within the outermost RecyclerView which is also scrolling vertically.

Two-way scrolling with RecyclerView

How do you display a list of item that is very large on one side (either horizontally / vertically), and allow it to be freely scrolled / dragged - like Google Sheets?
I've tried using a NestedScrollView with a RecyclerView, but you can only scroll in one direction at a time, and I need it to be able to be freely dragged around (no pinch / zoom functionality is required, but if it can be done it's a bonus).
Here's a GIF of what I've tried, it works but it's definitely not what I'm looking for.
This is the layout file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<include
layout="#layout/include_toolbar"
android:id="#+id/toolbar" />
<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#+id/recycler_biscroll"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

I finally got an answer: Use a custom LayoutManager implementation.
I removed the outer ScrollView, added FixedGridLayoutManager on my code, then used it as the RecyclerView's layout manager:
FixedGridLayoutManager layoutManager = new FixedGridLayoutManager();
layoutManager.setTotalColumnCount(adapter.getItemCount()); // This probably needs to update when item count is changed
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

Have you tried putting the recycler view inside a scroll view?

scrolling a webview inside a Listview won't work in android

I have an application which shows a multiple webView inside a listView. My problem is when I try to scroll the webView up and down, the webView does not respond to my finger except if I used 3 fingers only. And when it responds it's hardly moving up and down. I figured out that the problem is the listview is banning the webView from scrolling. I have tried using:
listView.setEnabled(false);
But it didn't work for me. could anyone show me how to solve this problem?
This is how I added the webView layout inside a listView.
ArrayList<DefaultCards> cardsList = new ArrayList<>();
cardsList.add(new DefaultCards("Hello Google","https://www.google.com", new WebViewClient()));
CardsAdapter cardsAdapter = new CardsAdapter(this, cardsList);
ListView listView = findViewById(R.id.cards_listview);
listView.setAdapter(cardsAdapter);
listView.setEnabled(false);
And this is the layout that will show the listView:
<ListView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/cards_listview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
And finally, this is the layout that will be inserted into a listView:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:background="#color/colorBackground"
android:padding="5dp">
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
card_view:cardCornerRadius="4dp">
<WebView
android:id="#+id/webView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="300dp"
android:layout_marginTop="50dp"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

Take this with a grain of salt but you might want to try using a recycler view for your list holder and a nested scroll view for your webview container.
Also, if the content of the webview is large enough to scroll you may need to add the isScrollContainer="true" attribute to your webview's xml.
Again, this is just a wild guess. Hope it helps!

The listview is intercepting the scrolling. You can prevent this by creating a NestedScrollingWebView that implements NestedScrollingChild, NestedScrollingParent.
There are many code samples if you search for Nested Scrolling Webview.
Use that instead of a regular Webview.

Create a RecyclerView with both horizontal and vertical scrolling

Over the past few weeks I've been learning to use the RecyclerView. I need to implement a horizontal list, ie, that by turning the device in landscape mode like so:
I found the best solution for this (how to create the horizontal displacement of RecyclerView, here), but encountered another problem. The item RecyclerView was larger than the height of the device (in landscape, horizontal), so I need to create a vertical and horizontal displacement, simultaneously.
I looked at the Android Developer methods for the LayoutManager class, but my skills are not high enough to understand most of the methods. I also tried putting a RecyclerView vertically inside another RecyclerView horizontally with all the content, but I get error:
IllegalStateException: RecyclerView has no LayoutManager
To rememedy this I removed all <View ... /> elements from the XML file, but this does not give any results.
To clarify what I am asking: is it possible to have my layout scroll both horizontally and vertically, and if you could explain how I would appreciate it.

I was so angry about all the problems that had tended with the application that had not thought about the easiest solution.
In a RecyclerView consists of two XML files, the main one where the RecyclerView is declared and another with content.
The simplest solution was to introduce the RecyclerView within a ScrollView. So I can move all items at a time thanks to ScrollView vertically and horizontally I can move the items thanks to RecyclerView in landscape mode.
activity_main.xml
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/cardIn_margin_ext">
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#+id/recycler_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scrollbarStyle="outsideInset"
android:scrollbars="horizontal" />
</ScrollView>

The accepted answer did'nt work for me. I had to use the HorizontalScrollView instead of simple ScrollView.
<HorizontalScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/cardIn_margin_ext">
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#+id/recycler_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scrollbarStyle="outsideInset"
android:scrollbars="horizontal" />
</HorizontalScrollView >

Enable scroll for scrollview not listview

I have a ListView inside of a ScrollView - but my issue is that I don't want the Listview to scroll, instead I want the listview to be fully expanded and just scroll the ScrollView up and down to see the items of the ListView. Can someone recoment a solution?
Here is my layout:
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/user_list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:divider="#null"
android:visibility="gone" />
</ScrollView>
P.S. I know that this is bad practice but I need this thing anyway

set this property in your scrollview android:fillViewport="true" it will work

two scrolling views cannot be inside one another.
Follow the following link:
ListView inside ScrollView is not scrolling on Android

You can consider this. But the ListView's height must be hard coded and it does recycling which slightly deviates from your requirement. But ListView without recycling, as you mentioned, is not a good practice. So try to achieve the thing with recycling as described in the above link.