android - Decorating RecyclerView (with GridLayoutManager) to display divider between items

Question

What's the best and easiest way to decorate RecyclerView to have such look & feel?

The main challenge here is having dividers only between items, but not between items and left/right borders of screen.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I don't know why do you need that, but this UI is quite easy to implement with RecyclerView decorator.

<!--Integer Value that number of column in RecyclerView-->
<integer name="photo_list_preview_columns">3</integer>

<!-- inter spacing between RecyclerView's Item-->
<dimen name="photos_list_spacing">10dp</dimen>

You can change photo_list_preview_columns and photos_list_spacing according to your needs.

mRecylerView.addItemDecoration(new ItemDecorationAlbumColumns(
    getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.photos_list_spacing), 
    getResources().getInteger(R.integer.photo_list_preview_columns)));

and decorator (needs some refatoring)

import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.View;

public class ItemDecorationAlbumColumns extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration {

    private int mSizeGridSpacingPx;
    private int mGridSize;

    private boolean mNeedLeftSpacing = false;

    public ItemDecorationAlbumColumns(int gridSpacingPx, int gridSize) {
        mSizeGridSpacingPx = gridSpacingPx;
        mGridSize = gridSize;
    }

    @Override
    public void getItemOffsets(Rect outRect, View view, RecyclerView parent, RecyclerView.State state) {
        int frameWidth = (int) ((parent.getWidth() - (float) mSizeGridSpacingPx * (mGridSize - 1)) / mGridSize);
        int padding = parent.getWidth() / mGridSize - frameWidth;
        int itemPosition = ((RecyclerView.LayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams()).getViewAdapterPosition();
        if (itemPosition < mGridSize) {
            outRect.top = 0;
        } else {
            outRect.top = mSizeGridSpacingPx;
        }
        if (itemPosition % mGridSize == 0) {
            outRect.left = 0;
            outRect.right = padding;
            mNeedLeftSpacing = true;
        } else if ((itemPosition + 1) % mGridSize == 0) {
            mNeedLeftSpacing = false;
            outRect.right = 0;
            outRect.left = padding;
        } else if (mNeedLeftSpacing) {
            mNeedLeftSpacing = false;
            outRect.left = mSizeGridSpacingPx - padding;
            if ((itemPosition + 2) % mGridSize == 0) {
                outRect.right = mSizeGridSpacingPx - padding;
            } else {
                outRect.right = mSizeGridSpacingPx / 2;
            }
        } else if ((itemPosition + 2) % mGridSize == 0) {
            mNeedLeftSpacing = false;
            outRect.left = mSizeGridSpacingPx / 2;
            outRect.right = mSizeGridSpacingPx - padding;
        } else {
            mNeedLeftSpacing = false;
            outRect.left = mSizeGridSpacingPx / 2;
            outRect.right = mSizeGridSpacingPx / 2;
        }
        outRect.bottom = 0;
    }
}