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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

You're reading from   Android Design Patterns and Best Practice Create reliable, robust, and efficient Android apps with industry-standard design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467218
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kyle Mew Kyle Mew
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Preface 1. Design Patterns FREE CHAPTER 2. Creational Patterns 3. Material Patterns 4. Layout Patterns 5. Structural Patterns 6. Activating Patterns 7. Combining Patterns 8. Composing Patterns 9. Observing Patterns 10. Behavioral Patterns 11. Wearable Patterns 12. Social Patterns 13. Distribution Patterns

Adding dividers


Prior to the RecyclerView, the ListView came with its own divider element. The recycler view, on the other hand, does not. This should not be thought of as a shortfall, however, as this latter approach allows for more flexibility.

It may seem tempting to create a divider by adding a very narrow view at the bottom of the item layout, but this is considered very poor practice as when the item is moved or dismissed, the divider moves with it.

The RecyclerView uses an inner class, ItemDecoration to provide dividers between items, as well as spaces and highlights. It also has a very useful subclass, the ItemTouchHelper, which we will encounter shortly when we see how to swipe and dismiss cards.

First, follow these steps to add dividers to our recycler view:

  1. Create a new ItemDecoration class:

    public class ItemDivider extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration 
    
  2. Include this Drawable field:

    Private Drawable divider; 
    
  3. Followed by this constructor:

        public ItemDivider(Context context...
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