How to add dividers and spaces between items in RecyclerView?

Question

This is an example of how it could have been done previously in the ListView class, using the divider and dividerHeight parame

Answer 1

Might I direct your attention to this particular file on Github by Alex Fu: https://gist.github.com/alexfu/0f464fc3742f134ccd1e

It's the DividerItemDecoration.java example file "pulled straight from the support demos".(https://plus.google.com/103498612790395592106/posts/VVEB3m7NkSS)

I was able to get divider lines nicely after importing this file in my project and add it as an item decoration to the recycler view.

Here's how my onCreateView look like in my fragment containing the Recyclerview:

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_recycler_view, container, false);

    mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
    mRecyclerView.addItemDecoration(new DividerItemDecoration(getActivity(), DividerItemDecoration.VERTICAL_LIST));

    mRecyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
    mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
    mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
    mRecyclerView.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());

    return rootView;
}

I'm sure additional styling can be done, but it's a starting point. :)