Android how can I get current positon on recyclerview that user scrolled to item

Question

In my RecyclerView I have some items that user can scroll and see that. Now I want to save this position and scroll that after come back. This below code return

Answer 1

For a similar requirement plus some action needed to be performed on scroll state changed, I did this with a custom scroll listener:

class OnScrollListener(private val action: () -> Unit) : RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {

private var actionExecuted: Boolean = false
private var oldScrollPosition: Int = 0

override fun onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView: RecyclerView, newState: Int) {
    super.onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView, newState)
    when (newState) {
        RecyclerView.SCROLL_STATE_DRAGGING -> actionExecuted = false
        RecyclerView.SCROLL_STATE_SETTLING -> actionExecuted = false
        RecyclerView.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE -> {

            val scrolledPosition =
                (recyclerView.layoutManager as? LinearLayoutManager)?.findFirstVisibleItemPosition() ?: return

            if (scrolledPosition != RecyclerView.NO_POSITION && scrolledPosition != oldScrollPosition && !actionExecuted) {
                action.invoke()
                actionExecuted = true
                oldScrollPosition = scrolledPosition
            }

        }
    }
}

}

This is because of the pre-existing bug with RecyclerView onScroll which happens to trigger the callback 2-3 or even more times. And if there is some action to be performed, that will end up executing multiple times.