RecyclerView.getChild(index) shows null when list is scrolled (index gets messed up)

Question

I\'ve been using SwipeableRecyclerView for my android application for enabling swipes for my recyclerView. RecyclerView contains a list of cardViews.

I was trying to

Answer 1

Since I don't have enough reputation points to comment on @yigit's answer, I thought I would give a way to retrieve all viewHolders from a RecyclerView regardless of what is currently in the viewGroup. Even with findViewHolderForAdapterPosition and ForLayoutPosition we still can get a null instance of the ViewHolder in the RecyclerView.

To circumvent this, we can use findViewHolderForItemId[1] and pass the ID of the viewHolder in the adapter using RecyclerView.Adapter#getItemId(int position)[2]

for (int i = 0; i < mAdapter.getItemCount(); i++) {
    RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder = 
            mRecyclerView.findViewHolderForItemId(mAdapter.getItemId(i));
}

1. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.html#findViewHolderForItemId(int)
2. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.Adapter.html#getItemId(int)