Recycler View loading very slow for large data when inside NestedScrollView

Question

I have added RecyclerView inside my NestedScrollView. Basically I want RecyclerView to scroll with other Views. The problem that I am facing is that fo

Answer 1

The problem as said above is because RecyclerView as a child or subChild in NestedScrollView measures its height as infinitive when you use WRAP_CONTENT or MATCH_PARENT for height of RecyclerView.

one solution that solved this problem for me was setting the RecyclerView Height to a fixed size. you could set height to a dp value, or you could set it to a pixel value matching devices height if your requirements needs a vertical infinitive RecyclerView.

here is a snippet for setting the recyclerView size in kotlin

    val params = recyclerView.layoutParams
    params.apply {
            width = context.resources.displayMetrics.widthPixels
            height = context.resources.displayMetrics.heightPixels
    }
    recyclerView.layoutParams = params