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Endless RecyclerView scrolling for different layout managers
public abstract class EndlessRecyclerViewScrollListener extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener {
// The minimum amount of items to have below your current scroll position
// before loading more.
private int visibleThreshold = 5;
// The current offset index of data you have loaded
private int currentPage = 0;
// The total number of items in the dataset after the last load
private int previousTotalItemCount = 0;
// True if we are still waiting for the last set of data to load.
private boolean loading = true;
// Sets the starting page index
private int startingPageIndex = 0;
RecyclerView.LayoutManager mLayoutManager;
public EndlessRecyclerViewScrollListener(LinearLayoutManager layoutManager) {
this.mLayoutManager = layoutManager;
}
public EndlessRecyclerViewScrollListener(GridLayoutManager layoutManager) {
this.mLayoutManager = layoutManager;
visibleThreshold = visibleThreshold * layoutManager.getSpanCount();
}
public EndlessRecyclerViewScrollListener(StaggeredGridLayoutManager layoutManager) {
this.mLayoutManager = layoutManager;
visibleThreshold = visibleThreshold * layoutManager.getSpanCount();
}
public int getLastVisibleItem(int[] lastVisibleItemPositions) {
int maxSize = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < lastVisibleItemPositions.length; i++) {
if (i == 0) {
maxSize = lastVisibleItemPositions[i];
}
else if (lastVisibleItemPositions[i] > maxSize) {
maxSize = lastVisibleItemPositions[i];
}
}
return maxSize;
}
// This happens many times a second during a scroll, so be wary of the code you place here.
// We are given a few useful parameters to help us work out if we need to load some more data,
// but first we check if we are waiting for the previous load to finish.
@Override
public void onScrolled(RecyclerView view, int dx, int dy) {
int lastVisibleItemPosition = 0;
int totalItemCount = mLayoutManager.getItemCount();
if (mLayoutManager instanceof StaggeredGridLayoutManager) {
int[] lastVisibleItemPositions = ((StaggeredGridLayoutManager) mLayoutManager).findLastVisibleItemPositions(null);
// get maximum element within the list
lastVisibleItemPosition = getLastVisibleItem(lastVisibleItemPositions);
} else if (mLayoutManager instanceof GridLayoutManager) {
lastVisibleItemPosition = ((GridLayoutManager) mLayoutManager).findLastVisibleItemPosition();
} else if (mLayoutManager instanceof LinearLayoutManager) {
lastVisibleItemPosition = ((LinearLayoutManager) mLayoutManager).findLastVisibleItemPosition();
}
// If it’s still loading, we check to see if the dataset count has
// changed, if so we conclude it has finished loading and update the current page
// number and total item count.
if (loading && (totalItemCount > previousTotalItemCount)) {
loading = false;
previousTotalItemCount = totalItemCount;
}
// If it isn’t currently loading, we check to see if we have breached
// the visibleThreshold and need to reload more data.
// If we do need to reload some more data, we execute onLoadMore to fetch the data.
// threshold should reflect how many total columns there are too
if (!loading && (lastVisibleItemPosition + visibleThreshold) > totalItemCount) {
currentPage++;
onLoadMore(currentPage, totalItemCount, view);
loading = true;
}
}
// Call this method whenever performing new searches
public void resetState() {
this.currentPage = this.startingPageIndex;
this.previousTotalItemCount = 0;
this.loading = true;
}
// Defines the process for actually loading more data based on page
public abstract void onLoadMore(int page, int totalItemsCount, RecyclerView view);
}
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seyoung-hyun commented Oct 29, 2025

@rogerhu
Thanks your code :)
Does it mean that the "no license" you answered before can be freely modified and distributed?

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