Is it possible to show RecyclerView preview in layout editor with horizontal orientation?

Question

RecyclerView is shown with vertical orientation, and can not set this property, because orientation belongs to the LinearLayoutManager object. Any way to simulate HORIZONTAL layout?

Anyway the linearLayoutManager created in code is set to HORIZONTAL.

llm.setOrientation(LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL);

Possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29929963/is-there-a-way-to-show-a-preview-of-a-recyclerviews-contents-in-the-android-stu — Oded Regev, Sep 25 '16 at 14:33

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '16 at 12:05

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try to add these parameters to your RecyclerView inside your layout xml:

  android:orientation="horizontal"
  android:scrollbars="horizontal"
  app:layoutManager="LinearLayoutManager"

answered Nov 09 '16 at 12:05

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Dilip · Answer 2 · 2016-06-30T05:30:31.520

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AFAIK, there is no such facility editor provide yet. although you can set the orientation of LinearLayoutManager Horizontal at runtime, this will fulfill your requirement.

LinearLayoutManager layoutManager
                = new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false);

edited Jun 30 '16 at 05:30

answered Jun 29 '16 at 08:49

Dilip

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It does not work. Set to HORIZONTAL, but still layout editor show it as VERTICAL. – János Jun 29 '16 at 09:11
@János It should work can u post xml and java code here – Dilip Jun 29 '16 at 09:34
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@Dilip should not work in the preview editor, that's what was asked, but it will in the device. – Vincent D. Jul 06 '16 at 22:56

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 09:14

RecyclerView won't show your actual data in the Editor Layout as the data you add in your RecyclerView is added Dynamically in your java code through Adapter and you implement a layout manager for your recyclerView in your java code and your Editor Layout displays the elements that are in your xml, so in your XML file its just a plain recyclerView which has no idea of what data is added in your Java implementation or what LayoutManager is to be implemented on it.

Is it possible to show RecyclerView preview in layout editor with horizontal orientation?

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