How to implement endless list with RecyclerView?

Question

I would like to change ListView to RecyclerView. I want to use the onScroll of the OnScrollListener in RecyclerView to determine if a

Answer 1

It is also possible to implement without the scroll listener, using the pure logic of the data model alone. The scroll view requires to get items by position as well as the maximal item count. The model can have the background logic to fetch the needed items in chunks, rather than one by one, and do this in the background thread, notifying the view when the data are ready.

This approach allows to have the fetching queue which prefers most recently requested (so currently visible) items over older (most likely already scrolled away) submissions, control the number of parallel threads to use and things the like. The complete source code for this approach (demo app and reusable library) are available here.