How to programmatically snap to position on Recycler view with LinearSnapHelper

Question

I have implemented a horizontal recyclerView with LinearSnapHelper, to implement a UI input that selects a particular configuration. Kinda like the old school number picker/sele

Answer 1

I have a recyclerView which I have added padding at the left and right with dummy views in the adapter. So that the first "actual" item can be snapped to.

I couldn't get smoothScrollToPosition(0) to work though for the initial snap. I used the following

recycler.scrollBy(snapHelper.calculateDistanceToFinalSnap(binding.recycler.getLayoutManager(), recycler.getChildAt(1))[0], 0);

Isn't the nicest looking way, but seems to work!