RecyclerView v23.2.0 and blank space after swiping up

Question

I updated the support library to 23.2.0. and changed the height of the recyclerView to wrap_content as explained in the blog here :

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Answer 1

I found the bug.

In the layout file where the cardview is in, I had to modify the surrounding RelativeLayout's layout_height attribute to WRAP_CONTENT as well.

Interesting part is, I changed the layout_height of RecyclerView back to MATCH_PARENT and it still worked as desired.