Saving the instance of Recycler view during orientation change

I have a RecyclerView which was build using an Arraylist. That Arraylist consists of User defined objects named ListItem.

Each recyclerview has a card view. Each CardView holds each ListItem. I have removed one CardView from that RecyclerView.

When I rotate the screen , A new Activity is created which results in showing the old data. But I want the recyclerview to hold only updated list and should retain the scrolled position.

ListItem class :

class ListItem(var title: String, var info: String,  val imageResource: Int) { 

}

MainActivity class :

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    private lateinit var mSportsData: ArrayList<ListItem>
    private lateinit var mAdapter: MyAdapter

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        val gridColumnCount = resources.getInteger(R.integer.grid_column_count)
        recycler_view.layoutManager = GridLayoutManager(this,gridColumnCount)
        mSportsData = ArrayList()
        recycler_view.setHasFixedSize(true)
        initializeData()
        recycler_view.adapter = mAdapter

        var swipeDirs = 0
        if (gridColumnCount <= 1) {
            swipeDirs = ItemTouchHelper.LEFT or ItemTouchHelper.RIGHT
        }

        val helper = ItemTouchHelper(object : ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback(ItemTouchHelper.LEFT or ItemTouchHelper.RIGHT or ItemTouchHelper.UP or ItemTouchHelper.DOWN,swipeDirs) {
            override fun onMove(recyclerView: RecyclerView, viewHolder: RecyclerView.ViewHolder, target: RecyclerView.ViewHolder): Boolean {
                val from = viewHolder.adapterPosition
                val to = target.adapterPosition
                Collections.swap(mSportsData,from,to)
                mAdapter.notifyItemMoved(from,to)
                return true
            }
            override fun onSwiped(viewHolder: RecyclerView.ViewHolder, direction: Int) {
                mSportsData.removeAt(viewHolder.adapterPosition)
                mAdapter.notifyItemRemoved(viewHolder.adapterPosition)
            }
        })
        helper.attachToRecyclerView(recycler_view)
    }

    private fun initializeData() {
        val sportsList : Array<String> = resources.getStringArray(R.array.sports_titles)
        Log.d("Printing","$sportsList")
        val sportsInfo : Array<String> = resources.getStringArray(R.array.sports_info)
        val sportsImageResources : TypedArray = resources.obtainTypedArray(R.array.sports_images)

        mSportsData.clear()

        for (i in sportsList.indices-1) {
            Log.d("Printing","${sportsList[i]},${sportsInfo[i]},${sportsImageResources.getResourceId(i,0)}")
            mSportsData.add(ListItem(sportsList[i], sportsInfo[i], sportsImageResources.getResourceId(i, 0)))
        }
        sportsImageResources.recycle()
        mAdapter = MyAdapter(mSportsData,this)
        mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged()
    }

    fun resetSports(view: View) {
        initializeData()
    }
}

MyAdapter class :

class MyAdapter(var mSportsData: ArrayList<ListItem>, var context: Context) : RecyclerView.Adapter<MyAdapter.ViewHolder>() {

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): ViewHolder {
        return ViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.wordlist_item,parent,false))
    }

    override fun getItemCount() = mSportsData.size

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: ViewHolder, position: Int) {
        val listItem = mSportsData.get(position)
        holder.bindTo(listItem)
    }

    inner class ViewHolder(itemView: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView), View.OnClickListener {
        init {
            itemView.setOnClickListener(this)
        }
        override fun onClick(view: View) {
            val currentSport = mSportsData.get(adapterPosition)
            val detailIntent = Intent(context, DetailActivity::class.java)
            detailIntent.putExtra("title", currentSport.title)
            detailIntent.putExtra("image_resource", currentSport.imageResource)
            context.startActivity(detailIntent)
        }
        fun bindTo(currentSport : ListItem){
            itemView.heading_textview.setText(currentSport.title)
            itemView.description_textview.setText(currentSport.info)
            Glide.with(context).load(currentSport.imageResource).into(itemView.image_view)
        }
    }
}

It looks like initializeData is called twice since onCreate is called again on orientation change, you could use some boolean to check if data has been already initialized then skip initializing