Changing number of columns with GridLayoutManager

Question

Inside my fragment I'm setting my GridLayout in the following way: mRecycler.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(rootView.getContext(), 2));

So, I just want to change that 2 for a 4 when the user rotates the phone/tablet. I've read about onConfigurationChanged and I tried to make it work for my case, but it isn't going in the right way. When I rotate my phone, the app crashes...

Could you tell me how to solve this issue?

Here is my approach to find the solution, which is not working correctly:

  @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

        int orientation = newConfig.orientation;

        if (orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) {
            mRecycler.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(mContext, 2));
        } else if (orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
            mRecycler.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(mContext, 4));
        }
    }

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I ended up handling this in the onCreate method.

private RecyclerView recyclerView = null;

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

    recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recycler_view);
    recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
    Configuration orientation = new Configuration();
    if(this.recyclerView.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) {
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(this, 2));
    } else if (this.recyclerView.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(this, 4));
    }
            connectGetApiData();
}

It worked out perfectly for my app.