Multiple views in RecyclerView

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I'm working with a recyclerView in my app that has three different layouts for it's rows.

I change the visibility of the different views in the layout for each row depending on the the type of data. For example, if it's a text post I change the visibility of the imageView to invisible and if it's an image post I change the visibility of the textView.

Is this a bad practice? Will this be too much overhead for the app?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '17 at 15:19

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It's not the best approach. See this: How to create RecyclerView with multiple view type?

There are also libraries in case you need more complex behavior while keeping a clean structure. For example, see Groupie.

answered Dec 29 '17 at 15:19

Xavier Rubio Jansana

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '17 at 15:38

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Please check this answer.

Main idea - you should implement getItemViewType of appropriate adapter and create layout accordingly with type returned by getItemViewType

answered Dec 29 '17 at 15:38

Dmitry Volynski

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Thank you very much for your guidance! – moe_nyc Dec 29 '17 at 16:33

Multiple views in RecyclerView

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