Add space to the end of the RecyclerView

Question

I have a recyclerview with a gridlayout. What I want is when the user scrolls to the end of the list (see my bad mockup), there should be an empty space with a height of 50dp, which isn't the same dimensions as my grid.

Note that this space is only visible at the very end end, as I do not want to change the layout. I could make it so that the recycerview has a margin bottom of 50dp, but I do not want to do that.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:fab="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
        android:id="@+id/recyclerView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        tools:context=".MainActivity"
        android:scrollbars="vertical"
        />

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

<RecyclerView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="50dp"
    android:clipToPadding="false"
    />

Answer 2

This is best achieved with an item decoration.

Here's an example that works with a LinearLayoutManager - you'll have to adjust to suit for your Grid layout. What it does is checks each item to see if it's the last one, and if it is it adds the offset to the bottom of it. For a Grid layout, the hard part is figuring out whether your item position is in the last row or not.

// After setting layout manager, adapter, etc...
float offsetPx = getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.bottom_offset_dp);
BottomOffsetDecoration bottomOffsetDecoration = new BottomOffsetDecoration((int) offsetPx);
mRecyclerView.addItemDecoration(bottomOffsetDecoration);

...

static class BottomOffsetDecoration extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration {
    private int mBottomOffset;

    public BottomOffsetDecoration(int bottomOffset) {
        mBottomOffset = bottomOffset;
    }

    @Override
    public void getItemOffsets(Rect outRect, View view, RecyclerView parent, RecyclerView.State state) {
        super.getItemOffsets(outRect, view, parent, state);
        int dataSize = state.getItemCount();
        int position = parent.getChildAdapterPosition(view);
        if (dataSize > 0 && position == dataSize - 1) {
            outRect.set(0, 0, 0, mBottomOffset);
        } else {
            outRect.set(0, 0, 0, 0);
        }

    }
}

For a GridLayoutManager, inside the getItemOffsets method you could do something similar to this to figure out if it's the last row:

GridLayoutManager grid = (GridLayoutManager)parent.getLayoutManager();
if ((dataSize - position) <= grid.getSpanCount()) {
    outRect.set(0, 0, 0, mBottomOffset);
} else {
    outRect.set(0, 0, 0, 0);
}

Answer 3

You can try the below code, remember "I do not test this code"

public class MyRecyclerView extends RecyclerView {
    private Context context;
    public MyRecyclerView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        this.context = context;

    }

    public MyRecyclerView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        this.context = context;
    }

    public MyRecyclerView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)     {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        this.context = context;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onScrollChanged(int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt) {
        View view = (View) getChildAt(getChildCount()-1);
        int diff = (view.getBottom()-(getHeight()+getScrollY()+view.getTop()));
        if( diff == 0 ){  // if diff is zero, then the bottom has been reached
            TextView tv = new TextView(context);
            tv.setHeight(dpToPx(50));
            addView(tv,getChildCount());//update --> add to last
            requestLayout();
        }
        super.onScrollChanged(l, t, oldl, oldt);
    }
    public int dpToPx(int dp) {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        int px = Math.round(dp * (displayMetrics.xdpi / DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_DEFAULT));
        return px;
    }
}

and in layout:

<your_packagae.MyRecyclerView
    android:id="@+id/recyclerView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
    />