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Jason Morris
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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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Creating a RecyclerView adapter


In order to get data into a RecyclerView, you need an Adapter class, not unlike the PagerAdapter you wrote to display the attachment previews for the CaptureClaimActivity. However, RecyclerView does a lot more of the heavy lifting than ViewPager and as a result, what you can and can't do inside the adapter is far more restricted than with PagerAdapter. Also, unlike a PagerAdapter, a RecylcerView adapter has two actions that are involved in displaying each element: create and bind. When the RecyclerView needs a new child widget for an element, it will invoke onCreateViewHolder, which should return an unpopulated ViewHolder, which will then be passed to onBindViewHolder where the data should be mapped into the View from whatever data source the adapter uses.

First off, the RecyclerView maintains the list of its child views completely, so the adapter must never add or remove them directly. Secondly, the RecyclerView expects the adapter to be stable, that is, the...

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Published in: Nov 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788475051

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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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