Inflating view above RecyclerView in FrameLayout

Question

On a button click, I am attempting to inflate an EditText above a RecyclerView. But instead of the EditText being added to the top of the layout, t

Answer 1

in frame layout everything stack on one another, if you want it to be above the recycler view make your layout LinearLayout and call method LinearLayout.addView(child, index) which index is 0 in your case.

UPDATE

because you have floating button you should make your layout something like this:

   
      //witch will be added later by add view
      
   
   

also if you want the edit text to work as something like header you can use this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26573338/2127203