I'm trying to implement a facebook like, gallery grid, where items have different sizes:
I was trying to use different libraries/solutions but for now without success:
I tried to use AsymemetricGridView.
But the problem with this implementation is that there are empty dead spaces left in the grid after going throw the adapter.
I also thought of using the StaggeredGridLayoutManager
and a RecycleView
, but items, in this case, don't have equal or half sizes to other items as it implemented in the Facebook gallery.
Now I thinking of providing different view holders for different cases in the adapter, but I really don't like this idea. What is a better approach to this task?
Finally, I have decided to use the TwoWayView library.
That you can get from: https://github.com/lucasr/twoway-view
In my code I did the following major changes:
Added TwoWayView in the xml layout:
<org.lucasr.twowayview.widget.TwoWayView
android:id="@+id/twvGrid"
android:background="@android:color/white"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
style="@style/TwoWayView"
app:twowayview_layoutManager="SpannableGridLayoutManager"
app:twowayview_numColumns="3"
app:twowayview_numRows="3" />
In code I made the following changes:
private TwoWayView mTwvGrid;
.........
mTwvGrid = (TwoWayView) findViewById(R.id.twvGrid);
final Drawable divider = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.divider);
mTwvGrid.addItemDecoration(new DividerItemDecoration(divider));
mTwvGrid.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(RecyclerView recyclerView, int newState) {
RequestManager glideRequestManager = Glide.with(TimelineStoryActivity.this);
if (newState == RecyclerView.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE || newState == RecyclerView.SCROLL_STATE_SETTLING) {
glideRequestManager.resumeRequests();
} else {
glideRequestManager.pauseRequests();
}
}
@Override
public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {}
});
.......
if (mAdapter == null) {
mAdapter = new TimelineStoryRecycleAdapter(this, mStory, mTwvGrid, this);
mTwvGrid.setAdapter(mAdapter);
} else {
mAdapter.setStory(mStory);
}
Here is the end result:
You can use recyclerview with StaggeredGridLayoutManager to accomplish this. StaggeredGridLAyoutManager already handles this, also u can use setFullSpan for a image to use a whole row