Get visible items in RecyclerView

Question

I need to know which elements are currently displayed in my RecyclerView. There is no equivalent to the OnScrollListener.onScroll(...) method on ListViews. I tried to work w

Answer 1

You can find the first and last visible children of the recycle view and check if the view you're looking for is in the range:

var visibleChild: View = rv.getChildAt(0)
val firstChild: Int = rv.getChildAdapterPosition(visibleChild)
visibleChild = rv.getChildAt(rv.childCount - 1)
val lastChild: Int = rv.getChildAdapterPosition(visibleChild)
println("first visible child is: $firstChild")
println("last visible child is: $lastChild")

Answer 2

Following Linear / Grid LayoutManager methods can be used to check which items are visible

int findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
int findLastVisibleItemPosition();
int findFirstCompletelyVisibleItemPosition();
int findLastCompletelyVisibleItemPosition();

and if you want to track is item visible on screen for some threshold then you can refer to the following blog.

https://proandroiddev.com/detecting-list-items-perceived-by-user-8f164dfb1d05

Answer 3

First / last visible child depends on the LayoutManager. If you are using LinearLayoutManager or GridLayoutManager, you can use

int findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
int findFirstCompletelyVisibleItemPosition();
int findLastVisibleItemPosition();
int findLastCompletelyVisibleItemPosition();

For example:

GridLayoutManager layoutManager = ((GridLayoutManager)mRecyclerView.getLayoutManager());
int firstVisiblePosition = layoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

For LinearLayoutManager, first/last depends on the adapter ordering. Don't query children from RecyclerView; LayoutManager may prefer to layout more items than visible for caching.