How To Set First 4 Items From RecyclerView To Visibility Gone?

Actually, I have a menu from which I can add in my MainActivity buttons in a recyclerView an in that menu I'm showing all added buttons so one can delete chosen button. But I have

Solution 1:

One way to solve this problem is to manipulate the backing array so the RecyclerView just doesn't know about the missing views. A second way is to assign a different view type with zero height to those positions that are missing. One type for visible positions and another for invisible ones. The following is an example adapter that implements this concept:

RecyclerViewAdapter.java

class RecyclerViewAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {
    private List<String> mItems;

    RecyclerViewAdapter(List<String> items) {
        mItems = items;
    }

    @Override
    public @NonNull
    RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View view;
        if (viewType == INVISIBLE_ITEM_TYPE) {
            // The type is invisible, so just create a zero-height Space widget to hold the position.
            view = new Space(parent.getContext());
            view.setLayoutParams(new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 0));
        } else {
            view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, parent, false);
        }
        return new ItemViewHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        ItemViewHolder vh = (ItemViewHolder) holder;
        String itemText = mItems.get(position);

        if (vh.getItemViewType() == VISIBLE_ITEM_TYPE) {
            // Only populate if a visible type.
            vh.mItemTextView.setText(itemText);
            int bgColor = (position % 2 == 0)
                ? android.R.color.holo_blue_light
                : android.R.color.holo_green_light;
            holder.itemView.setBackgroundColor(
                holder.itemView.getContext().getResources().getColor(bgColor));
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return (mItems == null) ? 0 : mItems.size();
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        // First 4 position don't show. The visibility of a position can be separately
        // determined if only, say, the first and third position should be invisible.
        return (position < 4) ? INVISIBLE_ITEM_TYPE : VISIBLE_ITEM_TYPE;
    }

    static class ItemViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        private TextView mItemTextView;

        ItemViewHolder(View item) {
            super(item);
            mItemTextView = item.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
        }
    }

    private final static int VISIBLE_ITEM_TYPE = 1;
    private final static int INVISIBLE_ITEM_TYPE = 2;
}

I would post a video, but it will just show the RecyclerView starting at item #4.

Solution 2:

As far as my level of understanding of your problem statement, you can use below code inside onBindViewHolder of adapter class to hide first 4 items.

Where rootView will be parent view of your recycler view item in xml.

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(MyViewHolder holder, final int position) {

    if (position <= 3) {
        holder.rootView.setVisiblity(GONE);
    }
    else {
        holder.rootView.setVisiblity(VISIBLE);
    }
}

Solution 3:

before removing it save those records in another ArrayList say BackupArrayList then Remove it as below
    if (recyclerList.size() > 4) {
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
            BackUpArrayList.add(recyclerList.get(i));
            recyclerList.remove(i);
        }
        recyclerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }