Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works…

We’ve purposely kept this recipe basic, but as you can see, there are still many steps even for this basic implementation.  The good news is, with this foundation set, you can easily expand and modify RecyclerView as needed. Want your list to scroll sideways instead?  You can easily accomplish this by using LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL in the setOrientation() call. 

If you have ever worked with Android ListView before, then the preceding steps will look very familiar.  The concept is the same: we create an adapter to hold a list of items.  Steps 1 and 2 set up RecyclerView on the activity. In step 3,  we specify the visual layout and pass it to the adapter. In step 4, we created the adapter by extending the RecycerView.Adapter ...