Margin/padding in last Child in RecyclerView

Question

I\'m trying to add Padding/Margin Bottom in the last row and Padding/Margin Top in the first row. I can not do it in the item xml as it would affect all of my Children.

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Answer 1

For some reason the old clipToPadding=false solution isn't working for me. So I added an ItemDecoration

https://gist.github.com/kassim/582888fa5960791264fc92bc41fb6bcf

public class BottomPaddingDecoration extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration {
    private final int bottomPadding;

    public BottomPaddingDecoration(int bottomPadding) {
        this.bottomPadding = bottomPadding;
    }

    @Override
    public void getItemOffsets(Rect outRect, View view, RecyclerView parent, RecyclerView.State state) {
        int position = ((RecyclerView.LayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams()).getViewLayoutPosition();
        if (position == parent.getAdapter().getItemCount() - 1) {
            outRect.set(0, 0, 0, bottomPadding);
        }
    }
}