Recycler View in Kotlin

To create a recycler view in kotlin you need three classes, an Adapter class to set data to items in the recycler view a data class to give your data a structure, and an activity or fragment class to display the view.

Add dependencies

Add the following dependencies to your build.gradle file

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implementation 'androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.1.0'
implementation 'androidx.cardview:cardview:1.0.0'

Write Code

Create a data class, you can pass the variables you want to access later as parameters in the data class

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data class Item(val text: String)

Create an adapter class

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class Adapter(private val List: List<Item>) : RecyclerView.Adapter<Adapter.ViewHolder>() {
    class ViewHolder(view: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(view) {
        val text: TextView = view.findViewById(R.id.text)
        init {
            // You can add onClick Listeners here
        }
    }

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): ViewHolder {
        val item = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context).inflate(R.layout.item, parent, false)
        return ViewHolder(item)
    }

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: ViewHolder, position: Int) {
        val element = List[position]
        holder.text.text = element.text
    }

    override fun getItemCount(): Int {
        return List.size
    }
}

Create an Activity where you want to display here I am feeding the view with dummy data you can add whatever data you want

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class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        view.adapter = Adapter(generateDummyList(1000))
        view.layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(this)
        view.hasFixedSize()
    }

    private fun generateDummyList(size: Int): List<Item> {

        val list = ArrayList<Item>()

        for (i in 0 until size) {
            val item = Item("Item $i")
            list += item
        }
        return list
    }
}

The entire code used is in the GitHub repo — https://github.com/vineelsai26/Recycler-View-Kotlin

Happy Coding!!!