Not able to add empty view below Recyclerview

Question

I was trying my hand with recyclerview and floating action button for an app. The problem I encountered is that the floating action button hinders with the buttons in recyclervi

Answer 1

I have created an utility method for that so you can add padding easily

public void addLastChildPadding(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder,int padding,int recyclerListSize,int position){

if(recyclerListSize-1==position){
holder.itemView.setPadding(0,0,0,padding);
}
}

Answer 2

Try this at once

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">


<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:clipToPadding="false">

        </android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView>
    </RelativeLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="15dp">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:background="@drawable/button_primary_color_border"
                android:text="70%"
                android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
                android:textSize="20sp" />

            <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:background="@drawable/button_primary_color_border"
                android:text="60%"
                android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
                android:textSize="20sp" />
        </LinearLayout>
    </RelativeLayout>

</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Remove images and other string according to your uses.

Answer 3

Here's an example (in this case a listView, but could be anything) underneath a recycler view that takes up the rest of the parent's height. Note layout_alignParentBottom and layout_above attributes.

<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/list_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:scrollbars="none"
    **android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"**
    />

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
    android:layout_above="@+id/list_view"
    />

Answer 4

Add bottom padding to the RecyclerView. Also, don't use android:layout_height="wrap_content" unless you've overridden onMeasure in the layout manager. Current layout managers do not yet support wrap content.

Add the attribute android:clipToPadding="false" to achieve the goal. As mentioned in comments.