Someone complained about that the above mentioned solution is not usable with a listview as expandable content. But there's a simple solution: create a listview and fill this listview manually with your rows.
Solution for the lazy ones: there's a simple solution if you don't want to change your code to much. Just manually use your adapter to create views and add them to the LinearLayout.
Here's the example:
if (mIsExpanded)
{
// llExpandable... is the expandable nested LinearLayout
llExpandable.removeAllViews();
final ArrayAdapter<?> adapter = ... // create your adapter as if you would use it for a ListView
for (int i = 0; i < adapter.getCount(); i++)
{
View item = adapter.getView(i, null, null);
// if you want the item to be selectable as if it would be in a default ListView, then you can add following code as well:
item.setBackgroundResource(Functions.getThemeReference(context, android.R.attr.selectableItemBackground));
item.setTag(i);
item.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// item would be retrieved with:
// adapter.getItem((Integer)v.getTag())
}
});
llExpandable.addView(item);
}
ExpandUtils.expand(llExpandable, null, 500);
}
else
{
ExpandUtils.collapse(llExpandable, null, 500);
}
helper functions: getThemeReference
public static int getThemeReference(Context context, int attribute)
{
TypedValue typeValue = new TypedValue();
context.getTheme().resolveAttribute(attribute, typeValue, false);
if (typeValue.type == TypedValue.TYPE_REFERENCE)
{
int ref = typeValue.data;
return ref;
}
else
{
return -1;
}
}
This library has an implementation of an expandable list with a recyclerview (refer to the demo app under "CardViewNative" --> "List, Grid, and RecyclerView" --> "Expandable cards"). It also has a lot of other cool combinations of cards/lists.
This is simple to do with the stock LayoutManagers, it all depends on how you manage your adapter.
When you want to expand a section you just add new items to your adapter after the header. Remember to call notifyItemRangeInserted when you do this. To collapse a section you simply remove the relevant items, and call notifyItemRangeRemoved(). For any data changes that are appropriately notified, the recycler view will animate the views. When adding items, an area to be filled with the new items is made, with the new items fading in. Removal is the opposite. All you need to do besides the adapter stuff is to style your views to convey the logical structure to the user.
Update: Ryan Brooks has now written an article on how to do this.
This is the sample code for what is mentioned by @TonicArtos to add and remove Items and to animate it while doing, this is taken from RecyclerView Animations and GitHub sample
1) Add Listener inside your onCreateViewHolder() to register for onClick
2) Create your custom OnClickListener inside your Adapter
private View.OnClickListener mItemListener = new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
TextView tv = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tvItems);
String selected = tv.getText().toString();
boolean checked = itemsList.get(recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(v)).isChecked();
switch (selected){
case "Item1":
if(checked){
deleteItem(v);
itemsList.get(recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(v)).setChecked(false);
}else {
addItem(v);
itemsList.get(recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(v)).setChecked(true);
}
break;
case "Item2":
if(checked){
deleteItem(v);
itemsList.get(recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(v)).setChecked(false);
}else {
addItem(v);
itemsList.get(recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(v)).setChecked(true);
}
break;
default:
//In my case I have checkList in subItems,
//checkItem(v);
break;
}
}
};
3) Add your addItem() and deleteItem()
private void addItem(View view){
int position = recyclerView.getChildLayoutPosition(view);
if (position != RecyclerView.NO_POSITION){
navDrawItems.add(position+1,new mObject());
navDrawItems.add(position+2,new mObject());
notifyItemRangeInserted(position+1,2);
}
}
private void deleteItem(View view) {
int position = recyclerView.getChildLayoutPosition(view);
if (position != RecyclerView.NO_POSITION) {
navDrawItems.remove(position+2);
navDrawItems.remove(position+1);
notifyItemRangeRemoved(position+1,2);
}
}
4)If your RecyclerViewAdapter is not in the same Activity as Recycler View, pass instance of recyclerView to the Adapter while creating
5) itemList is a ArrayList of type mObject which helps maintain states of item (Open/Close) , name, type of Item(subItems/mainItem) and set Theme based on values
public class mObject{
private String label;
private int type;
private boolean checked;
}