I\'m using the support RecyclerView in my app, and I see the most bizarre thing. It doesn\'t display any items until I touch to scroll. Then, all of a sudden, the RecyclerView p
You would have to run the stuff you do in onPostExecute on the UI thread so that the RecyclerView gets redrawn. That's why the smooth scrolling works, because that is running on the UI thread and therefore causing the view to redraw.