Is there an addHeaderView equivalent for RecyclerView?

Question

I\'m looking for an equivalent to addHeaderView for a recycler view. Basically I want to have an image with 2 buttons be added as a header to the listview. Is there a differ

Answer 1

Going to show you to make header with items in a Recycler view.

Step 1- Add dependency into your gradle file.

compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.2.0'
// CardView
compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.2.0'

Cardview is used for decoration purpose.

Step2- Make three xml files. One for main activity.Second for Header layout.Third for list item layout.

activity_main.xml

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header.xml

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list.xml

Step 3- Create three bean classes.

Header.java

public class Header extends ListItem {
    private String header;

    public String getHeader() {
        return header;
    }
    public void setHeader(String header) {
        this.header = header;
    }
}

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ContentItem.java

public class ContentItem extends ListItem {

    private String name;
    private String rollnumber;

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    @Override
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getRollnumber() {
        return rollnumber;
    }

    public void setRollnumber(String rollnumber) {
        this.rollnumber = rollnumber;
    }
}

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ListItem.java

public class ListItem {
    private String name;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    private int id;

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
}

Step 4- Create an adapter named MyRecyclerAdapter.java

public class MyRecyclerAdapter extends  RecyclerView.Adapter {
    private static final int TYPE_HEADER = 0;
    private static final int TYPE_ITEM = 1;

    //Header header;
    List list;
    public MyRecyclerAdapter(List headerItems) {
        this.list = headerItems;
    }

    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext());
        if (viewType == TYPE_HEADER) {
            View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.header, parent, false);
            return  new VHHeader(v);
        } else {
            View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list, parent, false);
            return new VHItem(v);
        }
        throw new IllegalArgumentException();
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        if (holder instanceof VHHeader) {
           // VHHeader VHheader = (VHHeader)holder;
            Header  currentItem = (Header) list.get(position);
            VHHeader VHheader = (VHHeader)holder;
            VHheader.txtTitle.setText(currentItem.getHeader());
        } else if (holder instanceof VHItem) 
            ContentItem currentItem = (ContentItem) list.get(position);
            VHItem VHitem = (VHItem)holder;
            VHitem.txtName.setText(currentItem.getName());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        if (isPositionHeader(position))
            return TYPE_HEADER;
        return TYPE_ITEM;
    }

    private boolean isPositionHeader(int position) {
        return list.get(position) instanceof Header;
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return list.size();
    }

    class VHHeader extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{
        TextView txtTitle;
        public VHHeader(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            this.txtTitle = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.txtHeader);
        }
    }
    class VHItem extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{
        TextView txtName;
        public VHItem(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            this.txtName = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.txtName);
        }
    }
}

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Step 5- In MainActivity add the following code:

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    RecyclerView recyclerView;
    List> arraylist;
    MyRecyclerAdapter adapter;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        recyclerView = (RecyclerView)findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
        LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
        adapter = new MyRecyclerAdapter(getList());
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(linearLayoutManager);
        recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
    }

    private ArrayList getList() {
        ArrayList arrayList = new ArrayList<>();
        for(int j = 0; j <= 4; j++) {
            Header header = new Header();
            header.setHeader("header"+j);
            arrayList.add(header);
            for (int i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {
                ContentItem item = new ContentItem();
                item.setRollnumber(i + "");
                item.setName("A" + i);
                arrayList.add(item);
            }
        }
        return arrayList;
    }

}

The function getList() is dynamically generating the data for the headers and for list items.