How Remove Unnecessary Space Between Cards in Recyclerview

Remove extra spaces between CardViews in RecyclerView

If you want to get rid of it all together you may use a negative for the contentPadding attribute of the CardView such as:

card_view:contentPadding="-8dp"

Adding negative margins should work.

Unable to remove extra space between CardView items - Scrollable RecyclerView

I have not implemented a RecyclerView, however I have replicated two rows in a linear layout, minus the padding from your original question:

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


    <android.support.v7.widget.CardView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:background="#303030"
        android:id="@+id/cv1"
        card_view:cardElevation="5dp"
        android:foreground="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="80dp"
            android:layout_margin="4dp"
            android:longClickable="true"
            android:background="#303030">

            <ImageView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:id="@+id/person_photo"
                android:background="@drawable/vector_red"
                android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/txtSub" />


            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
                android:text="Large Text"
                android:id="@+id/txtMain"
                android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/person_photo"
                android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/person_photo"
                android:elevation="4dp"
                android:textSize="20dp" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                android:text="Small Text"
                android:id="@+id/txtSub"
                android:layout_below="@+id/txtMain"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/person_photo"
                android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/person_photo" />

        </RelativeLayout>

    </android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
    <android.support.v7.widget.CardView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:background="#303030"
        android:id="@+id/cv1"
        card_view:cardElevation="5dp"
        android:foreground="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="80dp"
            android:layout_margin="4dp"
            android:longClickable="true"
            android:background="#303030">

            <ImageView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:id="@+id/person_photo"
                android:background="@drawable/vector_red"
                android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/txtSub" />


            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
                android:text="Large Text"
                android:id="@+id/txtMain"
                android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/person_photo"
                android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/person_photo"
                android:elevation="4dp"
                android:textSize="20dp" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                android:text="Small Text"
                android:id="@+id/txtSub"
                android:layout_below="@+id/txtMain"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/person_photo"
                android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/person_photo" />

        </RelativeLayout>

    </android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

</LinearLayout>

Play around with the padding and you will get better results. You can also try adding a background color to your card, then you can get rid of layout margins in your RelativeLayout!

How do I decrease the space between cards in a CardView within a RecyclerView?

Edit these attributes

card_view:cardMaxElevation="1dp"
card_view:cardElevation="1dp"

so full code will be

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/card_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    card_view:cardCornerRadius="5dp"
    card_view:cardMaxElevation="1dp"
    card_view:cardElevation="1dp"
      card_view:cardBackgroundColor="@color/colorPrimary"
    card_view:cardUseCompatPadding="true"
    card_view:cardPreventCornerOverlap="false"
    >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:id="@+id/card_list">
        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/thumbnail"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:src="@drawable/bag"
            android:contentDescription="string/video_thumbnail_description"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/video_title_view"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="lovelksdjslkdjlsdj"
            android:layout_weight="3"
            />
    </LinearLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

Remove spacing between items in RecyclerView android

just remove the cardview in your layout/cardview_recycler.xml, android puts that spacing that you don't want

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <mypackagename.ui.view.RecyclingImageView
        android:id="@+id/avatar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"
        android:adjustViewBounds="true"
        android:src="@drawable/img_no_avatar" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/username"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:padding="@dimen/spacing"
        android:textColor="@color/black"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_smallest" />
</LinearLayout>

everything else stays as it is

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