Challenge: RecyclerView ViewTypes
For this advanced challenge, you will create two types of rows in your RecyclerView: a normal row and a row for more serious crimes. To implement this, you will work with the view type feature available in RecyclerView.Adapter. Add a new property, requiresPolice, to the Crime object and use it to determine which view to load on the CrimeAdapter by implementing the getItemViewType(Int) function (developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.Adapter.html#getItemViewType).
In the onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup, Int) function, you will also need to add logic that returns a different ViewHolder based on the new viewType value returned by getItemViewType(Int). Use the original ...
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