Recyclerview not call onCreateViewHolder

Question

My RecyclerView does not call onCreateViewHolder, onBindViewHolder even MenuViewHolder constructor, therefore nothing appears in RecyclerView. I put logs for debugging, and no log is shown. What might be the problem?

My adapter:

public class MenuAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MenuAdapter.MenuViewHolder> {
private LayoutInflater inflater;
List<Menu> data = Collections.emptyList();

public MenuAdapter(Context context, List<Menu> data) {
    Log.i("DEBUG", "Constructor");
    inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    Log.i("DEBUG MENU - CONSTRUCTOR", inflater.toString());
    this.data = data;
    for(Menu menu: this.data){
        Log.i("DEBUG MENU - CONSTRUCTOR", menu.menu);
    }
}

@Override
public MenuViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.row_menu, parent, false);
    MenuViewHolder holder = new MenuViewHolder(view);
    return holder;
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(MenuViewHolder holder, int position) {
    Log.i("DEBUG MENU", "onBindViewHolder");
    Menu current = data.get(position);
    holder.title.setText(current.menu);
}

@Override
public int getItemCount() {
    return 0;
}

class MenuViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    TextView title;
    ImageView icon;

    public MenuViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        title = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.menuText);
    }
}

My custom row XML:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/menuText"
    android:text="Dummy Text"
    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
    android:textColor="#222"/>

and my Fragment:

public NavigationFragment() {
    // Required empty public constructor
}

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    mUserLearnedDrawer = Boolean.valueOf(readFromPreferences(getActivity(), KEY_USER_LEARNED_DRAWER, "false"));
    if (savedInstanceState != null) {
        mFromSavedInstaceState = true;
    }
}

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                         Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // Inflate the layout for this fragment

    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_navigation, container, false);
    RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.drawer_list);
    MenuAdapter adapter = new MenuAdapter(getActivity(), getData());
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity()));
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
    return view;
}

Answer 1

This does not apply for your particular case. But this might help someone else.

This reason could be careless usage of the following method

recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);

If not used with caution, this might cause the onBindView and onCreateViewHolder to not be called at all, with no error in the logs.

Answer 2

Setting the height of the TextView in the custom.xml or RecyclerView. If height is wrap-content, the RecyclerView will not be visible.

Answer 3

In my case after changing Activity to use ViewModel and DataBinding, I had forgotten to remove setContentView method calling from onCreate method. By removing it my problem solved.

Answer 4

Other option is if you send this list objetc using get,verify if you have correct reference,for example

private list<objetc> listObjetc;
//Incorrect
public void setListObjetcs(list<objetc> listObjetc){
  listObjetc = listObjetc;
}

//Correct
public void setListObjetcs(list<objetc> listObjetc){
  this.listObjetc = listObjetc;
}

Answer 5

In my case I set the ID of my RecyclerView to "recyclerView". It seems that this ID was already defined somewhere, because when I changed that to different ID, the methods from the adapter were called properly.

Answer 6

Add this to Your Adapter Class

 @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mDataset.size();
    }