The RecyclerView is one of the most used widgets in the Android world, and with it you have to implement an Adapter which provides the items for the view. Most use cases require the same base logic, but require you to write everything again and again.
The FastAdapter is here to simplify this process. You don't have to worry about the adapter anymore. Just write the logic for how your view/item should look like, and you are done. This library has a fast and highly optimized core which provides core functionality, most apps require. It also prevents common mistakes by taking away those steps from the devs. Beside being blazing fast, minimizing the code you need to write, it is also really easy to extend. Just provide another adapter implementation, hook into the adapter chain, custom select / deselection behaviors. Everything is possible.
- Core module 100% in Kotlin
- Click / Long-Click listeners
- Selection / Multi-Selection (MultiselectSample, CheckBoxSample, RadioButtonSample)
- Expandable items (ExpandableSample, IconGridSample ,AdvancedSample)
- Write less code, get better results
- Highly optimized code
- Simple Drag & Drop (SimpleItemListSample)
- Headers (StickyHeaderSample, AdvancedSample)
- Footers
- Filter (SimpleItemListSample)
- Includes suggestions from the Android Team
- Easily extensible
- Endless Scroll (EndlessScrollSample)
- "Leave-Behind"-Pattern (SwipeListSample)
- Split item view and model (ModelItem, MultiTypeModelItem)
- Chain other Adapters (SimpleItemListSample, StickyHeaderSample)
- Comes with useful Helpers
- ActionModeHelper (MultiselectSample)
- UndoHelper (MultiselectSample)
- More to come...
- FastScroller (external lib) (SimpleItemListSample)
- Paging (via Jetpack paging lib) (PagedActivity)
You can try it out here Google Play (or download the latest release from GitHub)
The library is split up into core, commons, and extensions. The core functions are included in the following dependency.
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter:${latestFastAdapterRelease}"
implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:${androidX}"
implementation "androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:${androidX}"
Expandable support is included and can be added via this
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-expandable:${latestFastAdapterRelease}"
//The tiny Materialize library used for its useful helper classes
implementation "com.mikepenz:materialize:${latestVersion}" // at least 1.2.0
Many helper classes are included in the following dependency.
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-diff:${latestFastAdapterRelease}" // diff util helpers
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-drag:${latestFastAdapterRelease}" // drag support
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-paged:${latestFastAdapterRelease}" // paging support
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-scroll:${latestFastAdapterRelease}" // scroll helpers
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-swipe:${latestFastAdapterRelease}" // swipe support
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-ui:${latestFastAdapterRelease}" // pre-defined ui components
implementation "com.mikepenz:fastadapter-extensions-utils:${latestFastAdapterRelease}" // needs the `expandable`, `drag` and `scroll` extension.
// required for the ui components and the utils
implementation "com.google.android.material:material:${androidX}"
//The tiny Materialize library used for its useful helper classes
implementation "com.mikepenz:materialize:${latestVersion}" // at least 1.2.0
Major release, migrates fully to Kotlin. Check out the changelog or the [MIGRATION GUIDE](https://github.com/mikepenz/FastAdapter/blob/develop/MIGRATION.md for more details
Just create a class which extends the AbstractItem
as shown below. Implement the methods, and your item is ready.
open class SimpleItem : AbstractItem<SimpleItem.ViewHolder>() {
var name: String? = null
var description: String? = null
/** defines the type defining this item. must be unique. preferably an id */
override val type: Int
get() = R.id.fastadapter_sample_item_id
/** defines the layout which will be used for this item in the list */
override val layoutRes: Int
get() = R.layout.sample_item
override fun getViewHolder(v: View): ViewHolder {
return ViewHolder(v)
}
class ViewHolder(view: View) : FastAdapter.ViewHolder<SimpleItem>(view) {
var name: TextView = view.findViewById(R.id.material_drawer_name)
var description: TextView = view.findViewById(R.id.material_drawer_description)
override fun bindView(item: SimpleItem, payloads: MutableList<Any>) {
name.text = item.name
description.text = item.name
}
override fun unbindView(item: SimpleItem) {
name.text = null
description.text = null
}
}
}
//create the ItemAdapter holding your Items
val itemAdapter = ItemAdapter<SimpleItem>()
//create the managing FastAdapter, by passing in the itemAdapter
val fastAdapter = FastAdapter.with(itemAdapter)
//set our adapters to the RecyclerView
recyclerView.setAdapter(fastAdapter)
//set the items to your ItemAdapter
itemAdapter.add(ITEMS)
By default the FastAdapter
only provides basic functionality, which comes with the abstraction of items as Item
and Model
.
And the general functionality of adding/removing/modifying elements. To enable selections, or expandables the provided extensions need to be activated.
// Gets (or creates and attaches if not yet existing) the extension from the given `FastAdapter`
val selectExtension = fastAdapter.getSelectExtension()
// configure as needed
selectExtension.isSelectable = true
selectExtension.multiSelect = true
selectExtension.selectOnLongClick = false
// see the API of this class for more options.
This requires the
fastadapter-extensions-expandable
extension.
// Gets (or creates and attaches if not yet existing) the extension.
val expandableExtension = fastAdapter.getExpandableExtension()
// configure as needed
expandableExtension.isOnlyOneExpandedItem = true
For further details scroll down to the ExpandableItems
(under advanced usage) section.
fastAdapter.onClickListener = { view, adapter, item, position ->
// Handle click here
false
}
// just add an `EventHook` to your `FastAdapter` by implementing either a `ClickEventHook`, `LongClickEventHook`, `TouchEventHook`, `CustomEventHook`
fastAdapter.addEventHook(object : ClickEventHook<SimpleImageItem>() {
override fun onBind(viewHolder: RecyclerView.ViewHolder): View? {
//return the views on which you want to bind this event
return if (viewHolder is SimpleImageItem.ViewHolder) {
viewHolder.viewWhichReactsOnClick
} else {
null
}
}
override fun onClick(v: View, position: Int, fastAdapter: FastAdapter<SimpleImageItem>, item: SimpleImageItem) {
//react on the click event
}
})
// Call this in onQueryTextSubmit() & onQueryTextChange() when using SearchView
itemAdapter.filter("yourSearchTerm")
itemAdapter.itemFilter.filterPredicate = { item: SimpleItem, constraint: CharSequence? ->
item.name?.text.toString().contains(constraint.toString(), ignoreCase = true)
}
filter()
should return true for items to be retained and false for items to be removed.
This requires the
fastadapter-extensions-drag
extension.
First, attach ItemTouchHelper
to RecyclerView.
val dragCallback = SimpleDragCallback()
val touchHelper = ItemTouchHelper(dragCallback)
touchHelper.attachToRecyclerView(recyclerView)
Implement ItemTouchCallback
interface in your Activity, and override the itemTouchOnMove()
method.
override fun itemTouchOnMove(oldPosition: Int, newPosition: Int): Boolean {
DragDropUtil.onMove(fastItemAdapter.itemAdapter, oldPosition, newPosition) // change position
return true
}
Start by initializing your adapters:
// Head is a model class for your header
val headerAdapter = ItemAdapter<Header>()
Initialize a Model FastAdapter:
val itemAdapter = GenericItemAdapter()
Finally, set the adapter:
val fastAdapter: GenericFastAdapter = FastAdapter.with(headerAdapter, itemAdapter) //the order defines in which order the items will show up
// alternative the super type of both item adapters can be used. e.g.:
recyclerView.setAdapter(fastAdapter)
Create a FooterAdapter. We need this to display a loading ProgressBar at the end of our list. (Don't forget to pass it into FastAdapter.with(..)
)
val footerAdapter = ItemAdapter<ProgressItem>()
Keep in mind that ProgressItem is provided by FastAdapter’s extensions.
recyclerView.addOnScrollListener(object : EndlessRecyclerOnScrollListener(footerAdapter) {
override fun onLoadMore(currentPage: Int) {
footerAdapter.clear()
footerAdapter.add(ProgressItem())
// Load your items here and add it to FastAdapter
itemAdapter.add(NEWITEMS)
}
})
For the complete tutorial and more features such as multi-select and CAB check out the sample app.
- As of v2.5.0 there are no more known requirements to use the
FastAdapter
with Proguard
The FastAdapter
comes with support for expandable items. After adding the dependency set up the Expandable
extension via:
val expandableExtension = fastAdapter.getExpandableExtension()
Expandable items have to implement the IExpandable
interface, and the sub items the ISubItem
interface. This allows better support.
The sample app provides sample implementations of those. (Those in the sample are kept Model which allows them to be used with different parent / subitems)
As of the way how SubItems
and their state are handled it is highly recommended to use the identifier
based StateManagement
. Just add withPositionBasedStateManagement(false)
to your FastAdapter
setup.
A simple item just needs to extend from the AbstractExpandableItem
and provide the ViewHolder
as type.
open class SimpleSubExpandableItem : AbstractExpandableItem<SimpleSubExpandableItem.ViewHolder>() {
/**
* BASIC ITEM IMPLEMENTATION
*/
}
// See the SimpleSubExpandableItem.kt
of the sample application for more details.
- RecyclerView Adapter made easy (FastAdapter v2.x)
Mike Penz:
- AboutLibraries https://github.com/mikepenz/AboutLibraries
- Android-Iconics https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics
- ItemAnimators https://github.com/mikepenz/ItemAnimators
- MaterialDrawer https://github.com/mikepenz/MaterialDrawer
Other Libs:
- Butterknife https://github.com/JakeWharton/butterknife
- Glide https://github.com/bumptech/glide
- MaterialScrollBar https://github.com/krimin-killr21/MaterialScrollBar
- StickyRecyclerHeadersAdapter https://github.com/timehop/sticky-headers-recyclerview
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Mike Penz
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Fabian Terhorst
This free, open source software was also made possible by a group of volunteers that put many hours of hard work into it. See the CONTRIBUTORS.md file for details.
A special thanks to the very active contributors who added many improvements to this library.
Copyright 2019 Mike Penz
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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