androidandroid-recyclerviewstaggeredgridlayoutstaggeredgridlayoutmanager

Full width footer or last item in RecyclerView using StaggeredGridLayout


So this is pretty tricky. The closest thing I have found to get this working is a modified version of this answer. Where I make the last item the same height as the view I want to be full width and invisible. Then I add an itemdecoration and draw it where the last item in the list should be visible like this:

class StickyDecoration (private val stickyView: View) : ItemDecoration() {

    override fun onDraw(c: Canvas, parent: RecyclerView, state: RecyclerView.State) {
        super.onDraw(c, parent, state)

        // layout basically just gets drawn on the reserved space on top of the first view
        stickyView.layout(parent.left, 0, parent.right, stickyView.measuredHeight)
        for (i in 0 until parent.childCount) {
            val view: View = parent.getChildAt(i)
            if (parent.getChildAdapterPosition(view) == parent.childCount - 1) {
                c.save()

                val rectf = Rect()
                view.getGlobalVisibleRect(rectf)
                c.translate(0f, (rectf.top).toFloat())

                stickyView.draw(c)
                c.restore()
                break
            }
        }
    }

    override fun getItemOffsets(outRect: Rect, view: View, parent: RecyclerView, state: RecyclerView.State) {
        outRect.setEmpty()
    }
}

The problem with this approach is when items in the recyclerview above the last one disappears from view, then the value of rectf.top or view.top or any measurement I can think of make a leap and displaces the last item.

Does anyone know of a way to add a full width last item or footer to a recyclerview with a StaggeredGridLayoutManager? I know it works with Gridlayout but its not an option in my case.

Or if you know of a value which gets to correct position of the last item on the screen without any jump in values?

EDIT:

More details of what I'd like to achieve.

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It should be a StaggeredGridLayout with a footer below the last item, which is full width and scrolls with the rest of the content.


Solution

  • To make a full width footer in a recyclerView using StaggeredGridLayoutManager you can do the following. Create a custom ItemDecoration:

    class FooterDecoration (private val footerView: View) : ItemDecoration() {
    
        override fun onDraw(c: Canvas, parent: RecyclerView, state: RecyclerView.State) {
            super.onDraw(c, parent, state)
    
            footerView.layout(parent.left, 0, parent.right, footerView.measuredHeight)
            val count = parent.adapter!!.itemCount
    
            val view: View = parent.getChildAt(parent.childCount - 1)
            if (parent.getChildAdapterPosition(view) == count - 1) {
                c.save()
    
                val rect = Rect()
                view.getGlobalVisibleRect(rect)
                c.translate(0f, (rect.top).toFloat())
    
                footerView.draw(c)
                c.restore()
            }
        }
    }
    

    Then in your recyclerView inflate the view you want to use and add it as an item decoration:

    recyclerView.apply {
        val footerView: View = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.item_footer_placeholder, this, false)
        val measureSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED)
        footerView.measure(measureSpec, measureSpec)
        addItemDecoration(ServicesFooterDecoration(footerView))
    
    }