android - FirebaseRecyclerAdapter with empty view

Question

I know there are lot of ways to have an empty view for a RecyclerView. But my question is for FirebaseRecyclerView.

My layout is:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
    android:id="@+id/feed_recycler_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical" />

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/feed_loading"
    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyle"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:visibility="gone"/>
</RelativeLayout>

So I am showing Loading ProgressBar before the RecyclerView fills its items. Now what if server doesn't have any item. In this situation my RecyclerView is empty always and my Loading ProgressBar always visible to user.

So instead of showing the ProgressBar for indefinite period, I want to show some empty layout. E.g. "No Data Found" or something similar message.

The final result should be: ProgressBar should be shown until data is loaded to RecyclerView and once data is loaded ProgressBar should be invisible. But if no data is present in server, some empty layout should be shown instead of ProgressBar.

In normal RecyclerView, we have a dataset (some ArrayList, etc) and if it is empty then we can show that empty layout. But in case of FirebaseRecyclerAdapter, I dont have the reference of Snapshot in my Activity or Context. Nor I have any callback which tells me that no data is present in server.

Any workaround will help a lot.

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