Centering Recyclerview Items with Flexboxlayoutmanager

Centering RecyclerView items with FlexboxLayoutManager

Try this

ACTIVITY CODE

public class TestActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    RecyclerView recyclerView;
    ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<>();
    FlexboxAdapter adapter;

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

        recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.recyclerView);
        initArray();
        FlexboxLayoutManager layoutManager = new FlexboxLayoutManager(this);
        layoutManager.setFlexDirection(FlexDirection.ROW);
        layoutManager.setJustifyContent(JustifyContent.CENTER);
        layoutManager.setAlignItems(AlignItems.CENTER);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
        adapter = new FlexboxAdapter(this, arrayList);
        recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);

    }

    private void initArray() {

        arrayList.add("Nileshfgfdgfdgfdggfgfgfdgvcb");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nileshfgfdgfdgfdggfgcvbcvb");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nileshfgfdgfdgfdggfgfdgdfgcvb");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nileshfgfdgfdgfdggfgcvb");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nileshfgfdgfdgfdggfgdfgdfgcvb");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nileshfgfdgfdgfdggfgdfgcvb");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");
        arrayList.add("Nilesh");

    }
}

ADAPTER CODE

public class FlexboxAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<FlexboxAdapter.ViewHolder> {

    Context context;
    ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<>();

    public FlexboxAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<String> arrayList) {
        this.context = context;
        this.arrayList = arrayList;
    }

    @Override
    public FlexboxAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.custom_layout, parent, false);
        return new ViewHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(FlexboxAdapter.ViewHolder holder, int position) {

        holder.title.setText(arrayList.get(position));

    }

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

    public class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        TextView title;

        public ViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            title = itemView.findViewById(R.id.tvTitle);
        }
    }
}

CUSTOM LAYOUT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvTitle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:text="Nilesh"
        android:textColor="#000"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

</LinearLayout>

ACTIVITY LAYOUT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".TestActivity">

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/recyclerView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

OUTPUT

How to center items of a recyclerview?

Achieved with:

recyclerView.adapter = MyAdapter()
val layoutManager = FlexboxLayoutManager(context).apply {
    justifyContent = JustifyContent.CENTER
    alignItems = AlignItems.CENTER
    flexDirection = FlexDirection.ROW 
    flexWrap = FlexWrap.WRAP
}
recyclerView.layoutManager = layoutManager

You need to add FlexboxLayout to your gradle:

implementation 'com.google.android.flexbox:flexbox:3.0.0'

RecyclerView items with different heights with FlexboxLayoutManager

Try something like this as your RecyclerView layout manager:

recycler.setLayoutManager(new StaggeredGridLayoutManager(2, StaggeredGridLayoutManager.VERTICAL));

How to move items in a grid layout to center, if a row has less number of colums in android kotlin?

This might or might not be possible via GridLayoutManager, but there is no direct solution to get this using GridLayoutManager. I suggest you take a look at Flexbox layout manager here:

https://github.com/google/flexbox-layout

This is from Google and what you want can easily be done using it instead. You might need to play around with the properties a bit, but I think it can be done using the justifyContent property.

A rough code snippet would be something along the lines of

RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) context.findViewById(R.id.recyclerview);
FlexboxLayoutManager layoutManager = new FlexboxLayoutManager(context);
layoutManager.setFlexDirection(FlexDirection.ROW);
layoutManager.setJustifyContent(JustifyContent.SPACE_AROUND);
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

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