How to disable overscroll effect on RecyclerView ONLY when you can't scroll anyway ?

Question

Background

Sometimes, all items of the recyclerView are already visible to the user.

In this case, it wouldn\'t matter to the user to see overscroll effect, be

Answer 1

Longer workaround, based on here (to solve this issue), handles more cases, but still a workaround:

/**a temporary workaround to make RecyclerView handle android:overScrollMode="ifContentScrolls"  */
class NoOverScrollWhenNotNeededRecyclerView : RecyclerView {
    private var enableOverflowModeOverriding: Boolean? = null
    private var isOverFlowModeChangingAccordingToSize = false

    constructor(context: Context) : super(context)
    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet?) : super(context, attrs)
    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet?, defStyleAttr: Int) : super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr)

    override fun setOverScrollMode(overScrollMode: Int) {
        if (!isOverFlowModeChangingAccordingToSize)
            enableOverflowModeOverriding = overScrollMode == View.OVER_SCROLL_IF_CONTENT_SCROLLS
        else isOverFlowModeChangingAccordingToSize = false
        super.setOverScrollMode(overScrollMode)
    }

    override fun onLayout(changed: Boolean, l: Int, t: Int, r: Int, b: Int) {
        super.onLayout(changed, l, t, r, b)
        if (enableOverflowModeOverriding == null)
            enableOverflowModeOverriding = overScrollMode == View.OVER_SCROLL_IF_CONTENT_SCROLLS
        if (enableOverflowModeOverriding == true) {
            val canScrollVertical = computeVerticalScrollRange() > height
            val canScrollHorizontally = computeHorizontalScrollRange() > width
            isOverFlowModeChangingAccordingToSize = true
            overScrollMode = if (canScrollVertical || canScrollHorizontally) OVER_SCROLL_ALWAYS else OVER_SCROLL_NEVER
        }
    }
}