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RecyclerView item onClick

RecyclerView item onClick

RecyclerView does not have an OnItemClickListener like it's predecessor, ListView. However, detecting item clicks is pretty simple.

Set an OnClickListener in your ViewHolder creation:

private class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MyAdapter.ViewHolder>  {

    public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder
            implements View.OnClickListener {
        private String mItem;
        private TextView mTextView;

        public ViewHolder(View view) {
            super(view);
            view.setOnClickListener(this);
            mTextView = (TextView) view;
        }

        public void setItem(String item) {
            mItem = item;
            mTextView.setText(item);
        }

        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            Log.d(TAG, "onClick " + getPosition() + " " + mItem);
        }
    }

    private String[] mDataset;

    public MyAdapter(String[] dataset) {
        mDataset = dataset;
    }

    @Override
    public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext())
                .inflate(R.layout.list_item, parent, false);
        ViewHolder vh = new ViewHolder(v);
        return vh;
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        holder.setItem(mDataset[position]);
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mDataset.length;
    }
}

Add touch feedback to your item layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/text1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceListItemSmall"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:paddingStart="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingStart"
    android:paddingEnd="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingEnd"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeightSmall"
    android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
/>
@alexnavratil
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There's a good documentation about these values: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html

@jacobtabak
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You should not couple your ViewHolders and ItemClickListeners. Please see a better solution here.

@AmauryEsparza
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@jacobtabak that exactly is what i think, but how you get the position element was clicked on the RecyclerView? I'm just find answers like above.

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ghost commented Apr 29, 2015

@jacobtabak how to get click listener on individual views in the row item. The click is intercepted by on touch right??

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ghost commented Jul 9, 2015

Great post!

@riyazMuhammad
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Please see more simple solution here
https://gist.github.com/riyazMuhammad/1c7b1f9fa3065aa5a46f

@yosraa
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yosraa commented Jul 30, 2015

how to get startactivity in onclick()

@dinigo
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dinigo commented Aug 20, 2015

This works on my head, but doesn't run as expected. The onClick() is never triggered, and I can't find why

@IgorGanapolsky
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@jacobtabak Read the comment in the solution you linked to:

This will not provide any clue about which button or view (within the item) was clicked.

@dinesh-gadri
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how to delete row in recycler view...
plzz help me

@dinesh-gadri
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how to delete row in recycle view when click on delete than that row is delete..plzzz help me

@mayooresan
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@demil133 after adding android:clickable="true" to the parent element for the item's layout in xml, it started to work. Hope it'll help someone out there.

@dima925
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dima925 commented Mar 14, 2016

Good sample. it's well for my app.

@shubham08gupta
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it works !!!

@MansoorJafari
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Hi
I have a recycler view with event onTap Listener and in item row I have a TextView that have click listener event
in my code OnTap only work. mean after click textview event onTap run and textview event dont work.

please help for solve this problem.

Thanks.

@pradeepkumarreddyk
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where did you add touch feedback to item layout

@EliudNjuguna
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How do you implement onClickListener on GridLayout using the RecyclerView

@devmike01
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This code doesn't work, but this does work

@MinaGabriel
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the base class doesn't have any on click method???

@SkymanOne
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SkymanOne commented Dec 6, 2016

but can use int item instead of String item and it's easier work with items

@JSila
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JSila commented Feb 15, 2017

getPosition is deprecated, use getAdapterPosition instead.

@ayetolusamuel
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thanks, this save me from item clicklistener mess.
Though this is what i use...
int itemPosition = getLayoutPosition();
Products products = productsArrayList.get(itemPosition);
Thanks for the clue

@ax-vasquez
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👍 👍 👍 👍

Thanks! This is by far the cleanest solution I have seen for this. Helped a lot!

@deweysia
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Short and concise. Thanks!

@imrankhanissm
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Thanks

@parthdesai1208
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thanks for the code, you saved my lot of time.

@JaiMistry
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how to get startactivity in onclick()

v.getContext().startActivity(activityIntent);

@IrshadKasana
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how to implement onItemClickListener on individual items/icons of viewHolder in a recyclerView and perform actions on them inside fragment/activity, but not inside the adapter

@Zhuinden
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You should not couple your ViewHolders and ItemClickListeners. Please see a better solution here.

how is this better? You don't need a gesture detector to handle clicks.

Just set a setOnClickListener(). The original gist is significantly better than what you linked.

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