ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback onMove() is not triggered

I want to realize drag and drop in my RecyclerView. As I found out, the best way to implement this is by attaching an ItemTouchHelper to the RecyclerView.

onSwiped() works fine, but onMove() is never triggered.

This is what I do:

EditIngredientsRecyclerViewAdapter premixableIngredientsAdapter = new EditIngredientsRecyclerViewAdapter(this, typeOfComponents);
        GridLayoutManager gridLayoutManager1 = new GridLayoutManager(getContext(), 1);
        recyclerView.setAdapter(premixableIngredientsAdapter);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(gridLayoutManager1);

        ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback simpleItemTouchCallback = new ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback(0, ItemTouchHelper.LEFT) {
            @Override
            public boolean onMove(@NonNull RecyclerView recyclerView, @NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, @NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder target) {
                Log.d(TAG, "onMove: ");
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public void onSwiped(@NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, int direction) {
                Log.d(TAG, "onSwiped: ");
            }
        };

        ItemTouchHelper touchHelper = new ItemTouchHelper(simpleItemTouchCallback);
        touchHelper.attachToRecyclerView(recyclerView);

I forgot two things:

**1. update the SimpleCallback to this:

ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback simpleItemTouchCallback = new ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback(0, ItemTouchHelper.LEFT) {
            @Override
            public boolean onMove(@NonNull RecyclerView recyclerView, @NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, @NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder target) {
                // Notify Adapter of the moved item!
                recyclerView.getAdapter().notifyItemMoved(viewHolder.getAdapterPosition(), target.getAdapterPosition());
                return true;
            }

            @Override
            public void onSwiped(@NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, int direction) {
                // No swipe action
            }

            @Override
            public boolean isItemViewSwipeEnabled() {
                // Disable swipe (dont override this method or return true, if you want to have swipe)
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public int getMovementFlags(RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder) {
                // Set movement flags to specify the movement direction
                // final int dragFlags = ItemTouchHelper.UP | ItemTouchHelper.DOWN | ItemTouchHelper.RIGHT | ItemTouchHelper.LEFT;  <-- for all directions
                // In this case only up and down is allowed
                final int dragFlags = ItemTouchHelper.UP | ItemTouchHelper.DOWN;
                final int swipeFlags = 0;
                return makeMovementFlags(dragFlags, swipeFlags);
            }
        };

Especially important is to overwrite getMovementFlags() to specify the direction for dragging and notify the adapter of the moved Item, as I do in onMove()

2. Trigger dragging by itemTouchHelper.startDrag(viewHolderElement):

I did this by creating a small interface in the RecyclerViewAdapter:

public interface OnStartDragListener {
        void onStartDrag(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder);
    }

When creating the Adapter pass in a new OnStartDragListenerElement like so:

EditIngredientsRecyclerViewAdapter premixableIngredientsAdapter = new EditIngredientsRecyclerViewAdapter(this, typeOfComponents, new EditIngredientsRecyclerViewAdapter.OnStartDragListener() {
            @Override
            public void onStartDrag(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder) {
                touchHelper.startDrag(holder);
                Log.d(TAG, "onStartDrag: ");
            }
        });

and calling onStartDrag(viewHolder) in an Touchlistener put on a button in the view like so:

holder.itemBinding.dragBtn.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
                @Override
                public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                    mOnStartDragListener.onStartDrag(holder);
                    return false;
                }
            });

I am sure, there are more efficient implementations and once somebody posts one here, I will accept it. However, this at least made it working for me.