Allow Recyclerview Items to scroll past top of Recyclerview

Question

I have a RecyclerView list, in which I want the currently selected item to be shown at the top of the RecyclerView. I still however, want the entire list to be scrollable, therefore, removing views from above the selected item is not a possible solution.

It seems I need a mechanism where the RecyclerView items are able to scroll beyond the bounds of the RecyclerView. I'm not sure if this is possible, so if it is not, does anyone have a solution to ensuring the currently selected item scrolls to the top of the RecyclerView.

I have tried smoothScrollToPosition() but this doesn't work in the case of being at the bottom of the RecyclerView, and wanting one of the middle items to scroll to the top.

Many thanks

to Illustrate, I have a list of 4 items, the recyclerview cannot scroll as there is not enough items in the list.

Then I select an item

I then want the selected item to scroll to top, but for the item above to still be scrollable.

So, when I scroll up...

everything is possible my frnd..just remove the selected item from the list and add it at the first position of the list and then `notifyItemRangeInserted(0, selected_position);` recyclerView will auto scroll to top... :) — Santanu Sur, Feb 28 '18 at 16:16
Thanks for your comment, but I still want the items above the selected item to be scrollable to, I don't think this fixes that. — Tmarsh2, Feb 28 '18 at 16:17
you want autoscroll or you want **the user to scroll** and you want keep the selected to its original position or do you want it at the top? — Santanu Sur, Feb 28 '18 at 16:19
you can delete all items till the selected position from the list and `notifyDataSetChanged()` and when the user tries to scroll up add those elements and again `notifyDataSetChanged()` — Santanu Sur, Feb 28 '18 at 16:32

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '18 at 17:29

7

On the RecyclerView set a bottom padding that is equal to three times your item's height then set android:clipToPadding="false". This will let your bottom item scroll to the top and show the padding on the bottom item but only on the bottom item.

Here is an answer to a similar question that lays this technique out rather well.

answered Feb 28 '18 at 17:29

Cheticamp

61,413
10
78
131

Excellent! Thank you – Tmarsh2 Mar 01 '18 at 11:03

44kksharma · Answer 2 · 2018-03-01T09:20:50.603

lets assume that you have item on click listener for your recycler view, when user clicks on any item you get item position and view, below code is working for me

RecycleClick.addTo(firstRecyclerView).setOnItemClickListener(new RecycleClick.OnItemClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onItemClicked(RecyclerView recyclerView, int position, View v) {
                    // YOUR CODE
                    int offset = position - yourRecyclerViewLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
                    if (yourRecyclerViewLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition() > 0) offset -= 1;
                    yourRecyclerViewLayoutManager.scrollToPositionWithOffset(position, offset);

                }
            });

make sure your layout manager comes from support library like this

android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager

otherwise you will not find findFirstVisibleItemPosition() method etc

Allow Recyclerview Items to scroll past top of Recyclerview

2 Answers2

Linked