How to disable manual scroll of Recyclerview?

Question

I have horizontal Recyclerview and want to disable manual scroll of it. But on click of item it should scroll. How to do it?

Please check below thread. It may helpful. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30222310/disable-scrolling-in-child-recyclerview-android — jettimadhuChowdary, Feb 10 '17 at 05:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '15 at 05:31

Implement RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener in your call it stole all the touch event on recyclerview

public class RecyclerViewDisabler implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener {

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
    return true;
}

@Override
public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {

}

@Override
public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean) {

}
}

For enabling and disable the scroll :

RecyclerView recycleview = ...
RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener disabler = new RecyclerViewDisabler();

recycleview.addOnItemTouchListener(disabler);    // scolling disable
// do what you want to do  at time of disable scrolling
recycleview.removeOnItemTouchListener(disabler); // scrolling enabled again

Thank you for answer. Will try. – user3606902 Dec 10 '15 at 05:38 — user3606902, Dec 10 '15 at 05:38
This disables onClick also – Mladen Rakonjac Nov 29 '17 at 14:00 — Mladen Rakonjac, Nov 29 '17 at 14:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '15 at 05:32

// You can set `onTouchListener`

public class RecyclerViewTouch implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener {

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept) {

    }
}

// Use it
RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener disable = new RecyclerViewTouch();
rView.addOnItemTouchListener(disable);        // disables scolling
rView.removeOnItemTouchListener(disable);     // enable the scrolling

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '15 at 05:32

you have to create a custom layout manager for this,you can disable the scrolling in this way

example:

public class CustomLayoutManager extends LinearLayoutManager {
private boolean isScrollEnabled = true;

public CustomLayoutManager(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

public void setScrollEnabled(boolean flag) {
    this.isScrollEnabled = flag;
}

@Override
public boolean canScrollHorizontally() {
   //Similarly you can customize "canScrollVertically()" for managing horizontal scroll
    return isScrollEnabled && super.canScrollHorizontally();
}

this way you can disable manual scrolling

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 15 '21 at 20:32

Thanks to Emi Raz. His answer is so simple for disabling scroll behaviour on recyclerview. And the solution works for me. please see his solution here

java:

LinearLayoutManager lm = new LinearLayoutManager(getContext()) {
    @Override
    public boolean canScrollVertically() {
        return false;
    }
};

kotlin:

val lm: LinearLayoutManager = object : LinearLayoutManager(requireContext()) {
    override fun canScrollVertically(): Boolean { return false }
}

How to disable manual scroll of Recyclerview?

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