Grouping recycler-view items by date?

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I need to group my recycler-view data based on a date and show some dividers in between each group as shown below.

--Item #1--

--Item #2--

 -- January 2016(Divider)--

--item #3--

--item #4--

--item #5--

-- December 2015(Divider)--

--item #6--

--item #7--

.... ....

how I can accomplish this?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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Sounds like you just want to have two ViewTypes like explained here

You might also want to take a look at this library and if you want it to be expandable and sexy you could take a look at Advanced RecyclerView library.

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answered May 26 '16 at 22:44

G. Kalender

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thank you, I was stuck thinking about using itemdecoration. but use two View Types was the best answer. – Lord_Gama May 27 '16 at 18:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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You need to first sort them based on the date.

then use either view_type (Is there an addHeaderView equivalent for RecyclerView?) as @G.K mentioned or use any recycler header library to set them as sticky headers.

try this : https://github.com/ShamylZakariya/StickyHeaders

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answered May 27 '16 at 00:52

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Grouping recycler-view items by date?

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