How to stop blinking on recycler view with architecture components paging library

Question

I have a chat-like activity where I am using a RecyclerView with a PagedListAdaper to load a bunch of messages. I\'m using a PositionalDataSource to load the data. The loading i

Answer 1

you should use sync in loadInitial and loadAfter, ie:

mLoadState.postValue(NetworkState.Loading);
try {
    mLoadState.postValue(NetworkState.DONE);
    ResultMessage> info = call.execute().body();
    if (info != null && info.isSuccess()) {
        List list = info.getData();
        callback.onResult(list, null, FIRST_PAGE + 1);
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    mLoadState.postValue(NetworkState.ERROR);
    mRetry.postValue(() -> loadInitial(params, callback));
    Log.d(TAG, "fail!");
}