CardView not shown in RecyclerView

Question

I have a problem which is driving me nuts. Basically it is a simple RecyclerView which displays a cardview. There are a lot of posts out there already, which I checked. I have a

Answer 1

Your code is fine, The problem is with layout file: document_item.xml:

    

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            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0.25" />

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            android:gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:orientation="vertical"
            ...

The second LinearLayout gets its height from parent (first LinearLayout), and the first one gets its height from its only child: ImageView (so without no drawable set, the second layout's height will be zero! ), if you set a drawable for ImageView (in onBindViewHolder method or in layout xml file) it probably crops some of TextView items, Also when you set android:layout_width to "wrap_content", actually you're ignoring layout_weight.

So edit layout file like this:

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