recyclerview No adapter attached; skipping layout

Question

Just implemented Recyclerview in my code, replacing Listview.

everything works fine. The objects are displayed.

but logcat says

15:25:53.476 E/RecyclerView﹕ No adapter attached; skipping layout

15:25:53.655 E/RecyclerView﹕ No adapter attached; skipping layout

for the code

ArtistArrayAdapter adapter = new ArtistArrayAdapter(this, artists);
recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.cardList);
recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));

As you can see I have attached an adapter for Recycleview. so why do I keep getting this error?

i have read other questions related to same problem but none helps.

Answer 1

For those who use the RecyclerView within a fragment and inflate it from other views: when inflating the whole fragment view, make sure that you bind the RecyclerView to its root view.

I was connecting and doing everything for the adapter correctly, but I never did the binding. This answer by @Prateek Agarwal has it all for me, but here is more elaboration.

Kotlin

    override fun onCreateView(inflater: LayoutInflater?, container: ViewGroup?, savedInstanceState: Bundle?): View? {

    val rootView =  inflater?.inflate(R.layout.fragment_layout, container, false)
    recyclerView = rootView?.findViewById(R.id.recycler_view_id)
    // rest of my stuff
    recyclerView?.setHasFixedSize(true)
    recyclerView?.layoutManager = viewManager
    recyclerView?.adapter = viewAdapter
    // return the root view
    return rootView
}

Java

  @Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    View rootView= inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_layout,container.false);
    recyclerview= rootView.findViewById(R.id.recycler_view_id);
    // rest ...
    return rootView;
}

Answer 2

It happens when you are not setting the adapter during the creation phase:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity);
    mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
    ....
}

public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    mRecyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
    ....
}

Just move setting the adapter into onCreate with an empty data and when you have the data call:

mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

Answer 3

Solved by setting the initialized empty list and adapter at the bottom and calling notifyDataSetChanged when results are fetched.

    LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getContext());
    recyclerviewItems.setLayoutManager(linearLayoutManager);
    someAdapter = new SomeAdapter(getContext(),feedList);
    recyclerviewItems.setAdapter(someAdapter);

Answer 4

ArtistArrayAdapter adapter = new ArtistArrayAdapter(this, artists);
recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.cardList);
recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);

Just replace above code with this and it should work. What you did wrong is you called setAdapter(adapter) before calling layout manager.

Answer 5

In my case, I was setting the adapter inside onLocationChanged() callback AND debugging in the emulator. Since it didn't detected a location change it never fired. When I set them manually in the Extended controls of the emulator it worked as expected.

Answer 6

In your RecyclerView adapter class, for example MyRecyclerViewAdapter, make a constructor with the following params.

MyRecyclerViewAdapter(Context context, List<String> data) {
    this.mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context); // <-- This is the line most people include me miss
    this.mData = data;
}

mData is the data that you'll pass to the adapter. It is optional if you have no data to be passed. mInflater is the LayoutInflater object that you have created and you use in the OnCreateViewHolder function of the adapter.

After this, you attach the adapter in the MainActivity or wherever you want to on the main/UI thread properly like

MyRecyclerViewAdapter recyclerAdapter;
OurDataStuff mData;

    ....
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        //Like this:

        RecyclerView recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.recyclerView);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
        recyclerAdapter = new RecyclerAdapter(this, mData); //this, is the context. mData is the data you want to pass if you have any
        recyclerView.setAdapter(recyclerAdapter);
    }
   ....