Use custom View in a RecyclerView Adapter?

Question

I have a basic custom View which looks like this:

public class CustomView extends RelativeLayout {

    private User user;

    private ImageView profilePict         


        

Answer 1

CustomView extends RelativeLayout {

You have a View already (well, a ViewGroup)

HOW TO INFLATE THE CUSTOM VIEW?

You don't need to... The point of a Custom View object is to not need XML, therefore no inflation.

You can create new CustomView(), but you need to set all the layout parameters, which looks cleaner in XML, I think.

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Most RecyclerView tutorials show inflating via XML though.

View customView = inflater.inflate(...);
ViewHolder viewHolder = new ViewHolder(customView);

That should work because in the class chain, you have CustomView > RelativeLayout > ViewGroup > View

LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);

Like I said before, you don't need this if there is no XML file you want to inflate.

You also don't need the context variable.

parent.getContext() is a fine solution.

// ANYTHING HERE?

Well, yeah, you should "bind" the ViewHolder with the data that the ViewHolder should hold.

Again, most, if not all, tutorials cover this.